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GodGunsGuts: Quick test for you:

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Since you are "made in the image of God", which of the above is your body modeled after??

Since you are "made in the image of God", which of the above is your body modeled after??

That one's easy.

D. None of the above!

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. -John 1:18.

If you don’t mind, I’d like to respond to your question by posting here my reply to the similar point raised a different way on a different thread. You had said:

IMHO, the entire kefluffle of "anti-evolution" is based on the hubristic mis- perception -- spawned by erroneous "graven images" like Michaelangelo's -- that it was the physical body (and not the soul/spirit) of man that was created "in the image and likeness of God"...

Truly, I believe it is a tendency of man to anthropomorphize God into a small 'god' his puny, mortal mind can comprehend. Moreover, I believe it has always been this way - from the days man would carve a figurine and declare it 'god' to today with all the myriad doctrines and traditions of men.

In other words, I believe that not just the doctrine that man physically is like God (as if God were physical) but indeed most all of the doctrines and traditions of men result from man’s attempt to understand God with his own mind.

God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth. – John 4:24

Man is not the measure of God.

For my thoughts [are] not your thoughts, neither [are] your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For [as] the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. – Isaiah 55:8-9

Some beliefs, leaning on man's laws of logic, insist that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit cannot be One God and therefore reject the doctrine of the Trinity. And yet, God says:

But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his. – Romans 8:9

Some beliefs, also leaning on man's laws of logic, insist the Messiah must be either the conquering Lion of the Tribe of Judah ruling an earthy Israel at peace with its neighbors – or else the suffering Lamb of God - but not both. And yet, God says:

And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the Root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth. – Revelation 5:5-6

And again, some believe that the Scriptures are words of men and therefore subject to their reasoning and judgment. And yet, God says:

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, [they] are spirit, and [they] are life. – John 6:63

And again, some believe that God is flesh and bone. And yet, God says:

Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring [it] again to mind, O ye transgressors. Remember the former things of old: for I [am] God, and [there is] none else; [I am] God, and [there is] none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure: - Isaiah 46:8-10

And again some beliefs see the resurrected body as physical. And yet, God says:

So also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit. – I Corinthians 15:42-45

And again,

For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. – Colossians 3:3

And so I suspect that even if Michaelangelo had not painted that masterpiece, man would still be “imagining” a small “god” - superimposing on his "god" whatever he sees as the best parts of himself - and thereby causing himself endless grief in trying to reconcile the words of the God to God the Father’s revelation of Himself in the Person of Jesus Christ, in the Person of the indwelling Holy Spirit and in the Creation itself, both spiritual and physical.

To God be the glory, not man, never man.