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To: DesertSapper

"I was made in the image of God."

So, what does God look like? Like a Chinese person or a British? Perhaps Arabic, or simply a South American Indian?

Personally, I think ancient people wanted closeness to their gods. Ancient Hebrews, similary, thought God looked like them, hence the story of the man created in God's image, from soil. Christians adopted that story and Muslims did, too. But, Muslims modified to say that God did not have an image and any attempt at saying what God looks like was blasphemy. Today's Muslims believe that man was created from mud, but not in Allah's image(who does not have an image).

I don't think they teach men created from mud in Saudi Arabian universities. In some cases, they do not literally interpret their holy scriptures.


143 posted on 01/23/2006 7:08:03 PM PST by sagar
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To: sagar

>So, what does God look like?

God is spirit. It's not tangible asa person is. To say we where made in His image is to say that we share in His spirit. That is the way I understand it.


181 posted on 01/23/2006 7:46:35 PM PST by TheBrotherhood
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