“Just because we are created in the image of God does not mean that we have to reverse engineer God into human form.”
Check out Isaiah 9:6 and 7:14. Isaiah prophesied that God would indeed take human form or are you prepared to call Isaiah a heretic and a liar? God proposes thru-out scripture to “reverse engineer” man into Godly form!
The incident of Abraham and Isaac on Mount Moriah was the start of the conversation between unregenerated man and God. As Abraham would not withold his hand in sacrificing Isaac to God;(God providing instead a ram as suitable sacrifice) God was promising that he too would not withold his own Son as the ultimate sacrifice for our sins.
To the extent that the totality of the Godhood could ever have died for the sins of man, he died there on the cross that day. There are no other sacrifices, religions, doctrines or believe systems that can promise what God has promised thru Jesus Christ! In dying as God in Flesh, Jesus took death captive and was resurrected victorious over death so that all who believe can have eternal life and to live forever in the presence of God’s shekinah glory!
It was not a conversation of unregenerate man.(Gen 26:5) ..it was the 10th and final test that G-d gave Abraham. What was the test about? To see if Abraham feared G-d.
Gen22:1 Some time later God tested Abraham. He said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
12 “Do not lay a hand on the boy,” he said. “Do not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.”
Boom! Passed the test! And then G-d gave him an animal sacrfice. Why? Because human sacrifice is forbidden. G-d says he HATES human sacrifice...it is an abonination! ( Deut 12:30, Jer 19) So, G-d is not going to tell us he hates human sacrifice and then turn around and murder his own human son (himself) and then tell us to believe in it. G-d does NOT follow the ways of the Baal and Molech worshipers!
Again...no G-d in human form....