| Strategyking92 said: So I believe god is an omniscient being, and that he made humans in his image, yet we cannot know what he truly looks like. In all honesty, his image could just be what he wants mankind to represent, and he can have many images. Or it could just be the human interpretation. |
First of all, why would God have an image? Image implies something physical, and if God created the physical unvirse he would not be a physcial being.
The only reason you believe man was made in God's iamge is because the Bible says it anyway. Perhaps a better way to got about it is to ask, "where did the Bible come from?"
The stories of the Hebrew Bible were borrowed from the stories of ancient Babylon. Its common knowledge that the Hebrews borrowed a lot from the Babylonians, from their beliefs on science and astronomy to stories such as Noah's Flood (Gilgamesh). What isnt as much common knowledge is that the Hebrew religion is an offshoot of Babylonian religion. Just read the Enuma Elish, Babylonian Creation story that pre-dates the Bible, to see where the Hebrews got their relgion from.
Obvious things Hebrews borrowed from the Babylonian creation story is how Marduk, the king of the Babylonian gods, created the Earth, created humans in the image of the gods, and the creation in 6 days and rest on the 7th (Babylonian gods feasted on the 7th).
http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/enuma.htm
Marduk is the God of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The Babylonian story has Marduk as the king of gods instead of the sole god ruling over angels that he would later become.
What did you think God meant when he said, lets make man in our image? He is referring to the other Babylonian Gods.
