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If god made man in his own image ...

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snytiger6 9 Mar 13
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I wonder if 'in his own image' means physically, mentally, or morally. He must be a flawed creature.

Aren't we all?

@Betty They say he is perfect, but we, who were created in his image, are flawed.

@Cocoavine
Since "God" is a human construct and humans are flawed, it stands to reason that "God" is flawed too.

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...then he has feet of clay. 😂

...then he took his sweet time about it (at least 3½ billion years).

...then he probably has a bad back, a blind spot right in the middle of his field of vision, vestigial gill arches, impacted wisdom teeth, a hernia, acid reflux, and a tendency to believe in crazy stupid superstitions like the existence of gods, devils, angels, and demons.

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If God made man in his own image, that’s a perfect reason not to believe in it.

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If so, does that mean god suffers back problems, as many of us painfully live with?

At long last alien you admit to being spineless.

I see that the Financial Times now reports that humanity & particularly Americans are now more stupid than they used to be:

"While active, intentional use of digital technologies can often be beneficial, being passively exposed to infinite content on social media coupled with frequent context-switching has been shown to negatively impact attention span, memory, and self-regulation. The documented decline in reading among Americans reportedly comes alongside a decrease in numeracy and other forms of problem-solving in most countries."
People becoming more stupid – study [rt.com]

Browser & app url www.rt.com/news/614354-people-becoming-more-stupid-study/

[ft.com]

Browser & app url www.ft.com/content/2cefbab2-5b23-11e2-8d06-00144feab49a
But of course I've been telling you all for years now that you should strive to emulate Professor Cipolla's intelligence & avoid his 5 basic laws of human stupidity. . . Very sad that you never heeded me.

[en.wikipedia.org]

Thus all confirming what I've been long saying about you Alien & your scribblings.

@FrayedBear You usual nonsense is gettijng very hard to even read. Do yourself a favor, shut up.

@Alienbeing "gettijng very hard to even read" thus proving the news report. A sad deluded inferior case study that you have become alien.
Enjoy your dotage.

@FrayedBear More nonsense, keep it up, the only thing you can do is evoke pity upon yourself.

@Alienbeing sadly my finger didn't type quickly enough to record my thought. Comment now edited to "@Alienbeing "gettijng very hard to even read" thus proving the news report. A sad deluded inferior case study that you have become alien.
Enjoy your dotage."

@FrayedBear Keep on showing us you have nothing. As boring as you are, your continued idiotic remarks reinforce everyone' s opinion of you.

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Reverse that sentence and you got it. I have actually studied from people who thought god was a being just like us but not present with us at this time. Their
take on god was he would have the size and shape of you but be all powerful.

Isn't imagination grand? 😅

Would he be wearing a red cape and leap tall buildings at a single bound?

@Betty particularly when creating slaves.

@Betty I was thinking along those lines too, i.e. that it reveals a pretty paltry and weak imagination.

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We would all be invisible!!?! 🙃

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Isn't that what every living thing does,...produce off-spring in their own image. Not very imaginative of the author,...is it?

Betty Level 8 Mar 14, 2025
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Then everyone would be damaged goods.

Which we are. Aren't we?

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Why make something in your own image anyway ? Can you have a meaningful conversation with something that sees the world exactly as you do ? And if god is perfect, then any deviation from that, is logically an imperfection.

Therefore, either god made humans imperfect, and is personally responsible for all the effects of that imperfection, or human existence is meaningless.

( See, what fun you can have with the seeming complexities of theology, and many do think its fun, seemingly. But, "I am having fun." should never be mistaken for, "I am finding truth." Though sadly mistaking fun for truth is a very common human failing. )

You been gettin’ into the sauce again!?!🫣

@Aaron70 I wish. Sadly my point is that I am staying out of the sauce, never even been tempted.

@Fernapple Good for you! Shit should be illegal anyhow….🤠

I've thought that about AI eg wtf are we creating humanoid AI robots? Not as though there is a shortage of people.

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So does God have genitalia, and if so, why? Did Jesus pee living water? If God sees everything, what color are his eyes?

The OP statement is intrinsically absurd given that many notions of God are formless, and that human form is so variable and could very well have had many other characteristics: scale, feathers, egg-laying, marsupium pouch, etc.

In a nearby church, in the center of the stage is a 24" gold-gilded sculpture of Jesus on the Cross. It is gaudy in its gilded fake-gold splendor. But Jesus and the Cross imagery are repeated over and over on the walls. The focus on the death, rather than the life of teaching, appears grim and pessimistic.

In listening to a choral recital, essentially all the lyrics are given over to standard Christian gibberish of "glory be to God" and "Halleluyah" "resurrection"... it might as well be the nonsense that Deepak Chopra puts out. It is beautiful music, but it's so sad to realize the lyric content is one bullshit lie after another. Hitchens got it right: religion POISONS everything.

The focus on death is there to scare people. With fear it's easier to control them.

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Then how come we aren't all invisible?....

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Man made god in his image as a flimflam to suckers and Trump is merely following the business model.

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Shame on him! If Trump is god's image then the believers are in "BIG" trouble. 🤣

Betty Level 8 Mar 13, 2025
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