When I was about 19 (maybe 20, I forget) years old, I apparently stunned the very young almost ordained catholic priest Jesuit of my acquaintance with a simple question.
I said or asked, if he thought an image is something that you see, or something that you look to.
Clearly we viewed the world through different prisms.
Later that day, month, year, whatever....
One of his disciples showed up on my TV. Channel 5, Boston.
He was whining about gay rights and other stuff like that. I never even knew that this particular fellow was a sodomite. I just knew him, and the on TV editorial thing sort of surprised me.
I never saw him again, and I suppose that he is dead now because of that incredibly discriminatory virus which attacks the T cells of it's victims.
T cells are your best friends until you introduce them to the HIV cells who are there because of bad behavior, or bad medical practices, or bad Karma. It is uglier than that actually.
Meanwhile, back at the rant, an image from here is something that you look to.
If you want to imply with sinister intent that God looks like somebody...well then welcome to my attitude toward stupid blow hards.
If you want to imply with sinister intent that God looks like somebody...well then welcome to my attitude toward stupid blow hards.
I didn't mean to imply anything. My question was legitimate. There are Christians on this board who believe that " created in His image" means PHYSICAL image. I don't. In fact, I do not like the idea of God "looking" like ANYBODY. I would consider it something close to blasphemous.
I believe that the part of us that is in God's likeness is our soul, not our body. Even when I called myself a Christian I believed that. I actually thought every Christian believed that and was surprised to find that some don't.