Do you think God has genitals, a spleen, has to eat and expel waste etc.?
Or does "made in God's image" really mean that human beings are thinking creatures with free will?
How can any Christian, think that God used evolution to make man, given the above passage?
Since I'm limited by my human understanding of the world, I'd consider it to be analogous to when I make a pie in the image of a pie I have in mind to make ... I don't just wave my hands, and huzzah there's a pie.
There are steps to making it. Getting the ingredients together. Mixing them. Cooking it. Letting it cool afterwards.
So, I don't see how making something assumes that there are not steps to make it.
Of course, God being God, he is unlimited, and could very well have instantly made whatever he wanted.
But, bein gunlimited, he could take all the time and varied processes he wanted to, as well.
You could almost imply from that passage, that the Vatican is saying that God too had to evolve since God had to use evolution to develope man. Do they even have a clue what they are saying?
How would that be different from implying that because an intelligent designer was used for humans, an intelligent designer would also be needed for THAT intelligent designer, etc.?
I think the idea of God as he exists implies that he's the one holding the end of the chain, and not necessarily part of the chain itself ...
""And God Said, 'Let "US" make man in "OUR" image.' Not let's evolve man into our image.
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Well, the other day, I made a loaf of bread. It started out as a bunch of ingredients, mixed together. I let it sit for several hours, then put it in an oven and baked it.
I made it, but there was a rather tedious process. When that process was complete, I ate it, and it was good.
Hmmm, perhaps the "image" being referred to is the spiritual image, not a physical flesh-and-bones image...