Anthropomorphism is the attribution of human traits, emotions, or intentions to non-human entities. In no way is it limited to physical form. Keeping his commandments is not limited to the physical form either, nor did I violate them.
These are oxford dictionary definitions.
Anthropomorphism: The attribution of human characteristics or behaviors to an animal, object, or a god.
Personification: The attribution of a personal nature or human characteristics to something non-human, or the representation of an abstract quality in human form.
Another thing to note is that anthropomorphism defines other things taking after human, not the other way around. The god can take an anthropomorphic position. We can't, because we are already human.
We take an anthropomorphic position because he said we were formed in his image and likeness.
Are you implying that gasp the god is merely human-like? How unlike an almighty god.
That’s just semantics at this point. The definition I gave is just as valid, and using the term reciprocally is well understood. The creator is not taking on characteristics of his creation, and I never implied such a thing; so for you to infer that is essentially grasping at straws.
God said we were made in his image and likeness; I’m merely repeating it. Your argument is based on a logical fallacy that God needs to breathe, eat, and defecate like his creation. He gives the breath of life, and the fruit of the trees for his creation to eat.
You're repeating what you're told, but you don't even understand what that even means.
God said we were made in his image and likeness;
I'm only using your own words to understand the depiction of the god. If we are indeed "made in his image and likeness", I would have to assume the god has utility for all the orifices. And if the god needs to utilize physical orifices, how can the god be all powerful?
On a flip side if the god doesn't need any orifices, how can you say that we are "made in his image and likeness"? Wouldn't we have to resemble an all powerful being, which would render all the physical orifices useless?
I was merely asking you to paint the picture of the god you're referring me to, but you deflected it by saying that it's not the physical form you're talking about. So where does "the image and likeness" fall into? Because "the image and likeness" certainly are not nouns describing an amorphic entity.
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