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.
You’re just repeating the exact same things I’ve already gone over. You want to argue the use of English words derived from Latin origins based on Hebrew words. Man (adam) was formed from the dust of the earth (adamah) and made in the image and likeness (adameh) of God. When God breathed the breath (neshamah) man became a living soul (nephesh). Adamah and adameh are the same word with a different pronunciation of the ה. This implies that that physical form of man (adamah) is compromised of earthly elements, and spiritual man was made in his likeness (adameh).
Oh so you want to argue it's just completely semantics.
That's cool, too. It makes it way easier. If the spiritual likeness is of the god, is he capable of evil? Because men "sin" as I recall. And if the god is evil, why should I worship him? And if we are indeed in the spiritual likeness of god, why do we need the 10 commandments to follow? We should already be in his "spiritual likeness".
You keep trying to understand to totality of God by looking at his creation. What can you tell me about Henry Ford by looking at an F150? How would you describe the color blue to a blind man? You’re spiritually blind, asking questions, but also have your fingers in your ears because you’ve decided that your own answers are good enough.
He’s capable of justice. Justice is not evil. We have free will. We can choose to follow his ways or choose to follow men’s ways. One leads to destruction and one leads to eternal life. Death was introduced into the world because of sin. Sin requires a redemption; redemption is freely given to those who baptize and choose to live the way the creator intended for us to live. The commandments are lessons in how we learn to truly love each other, and love our creator.
How rewarding would it be if you forced your wife to say “I love you” everyday vs her choosing to do so of her own free will? Would you believe her if it was forced? God wants his creation to love him and his ways, but he doesn’t force anyone. He is long suffering and patient beyond human comprehension. Those that choose to follow him will get the promise at the end; and those that choose not to will die and cease to exist. That’s justice, not evil.
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