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21. June 2012, 23:54:59
Übergeek 바둑이 
Subject: Re: what do you think C. S. Lewis might say about this?
Iamon lyme:

> we can worship a God who created us in His image

The question is: are we really created in God's image?

What does that mean? Physically? Intellectually? Spiritually?

And who represent's God's image? Mother Teresa? Adolf Gegenueber aka Hitler? Joseph Stalin? St. Francis of Asisi? Bill Gates? Barrack Obama? George W. Bush? etc. etc.

Are ALL human beings created in God's image? And how do we know what God's image is? We keep regurgitating what Genesis said, but considering the actions of human beings in history, can we justified in saying we are a reflection of God?

If ALL human beings are made in God's image, then Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are God's image too.

I refuse to believe that we were made in God's image. Is God cruel, selfish, greedy, opinionated, inflexible, intolerant, racist, jealous, vengeful, murderous, etc.? It would be nice to say that God is all the good things that humanity has, and then conveniently say that "the Devil made us bad". But then, is the Devil not God's creation too? If human beings do evil, did God not make humans with the capacity and the potential for evil? Then that capacity and potential for evil would be a reflection of God too.

So I think that did not make human beings in his image. God made blank slates reflection nothing of God itself. God has to be nothing like we human beings are, otherwise God is both all the good and all the bad things we are.

22. June 2012, 00:22:24
Iamon lyme 
Subject: Re: what do you think C. S. Lewis might say about this?
Übergeek 바둑이: I was contrasting one belief with another. I thought that was obvious.

If you think my idea of what atheists believe is a straw man argument, you have no where to go with that... because if you were being honest about it, you would see it as one straw man army opposing another. Frankly, I'm tired of listening to people who do not believe in God telling Christians what they think, when it's obvious to most Christians that what they are hearing is nonsense.

If it don't look like a duck, walk like a duck, or sound like a duck, then it's probably not a duck.

22. June 2012, 02:48:06
Papa Zoom 
Subject: Re: what do you think C. S. Lewis might say about this?
Übergeek 바둑이: the bigger question is, What does being "created in God's image" mean? Forget about if it's true for the moment. What is meant by the statement?

22. June 2012, 02:51:56
Mrs Moon 
Subject: Re: what do you think C. S. Lewis might say about this?
Monochrome head-and-left-shoulder photo portrait of 50-year-old Lewis
C.S. Lewis aged 50
Born Clive Staples Lewis
29 November 1898
Belfast, Ireland
Died 22 November 1963 (aged 64)
Oxford, England
Occupation Novelist, scholar, broadcaster
Genres Fantasy, science fiction, Christian apologetics, children's literature
Notable work(s) The Chronicles of Narnia
Mere Christianity
The Allegory of Love
The Screwtape Letters
The Space Trilogy
Till We Have Faces
Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life
Spouse(s) Joy DavidmanArtful Dodger:

22. June 2012, 02:58:37
Iamon lyme 
Subject: Re: what do you think C. S. Lewis might say about this?
JungleBurger: I haven't read any of his books. I don't know why, because everytime I see him quoted I like what he has to say. I also liked the Narnia movies, and saw part of a play based on the Screw tape letters.

22. June 2012, 03:08:28
Mrs Moon 
Subject: Re: what do you think C. S. Lewis might say about this?
Iamon lyme: "I haven't read any of his books".

What do you care if you haven't read the books? :)

22. June 2012, 03:14:30
Iamon lyme 
Subject: Re: what do you think C. S. Lewis might say about this?
JungleBurger: What do I care if I haven't read the books.

Do you mean, what do I care what C. S. Lewis would say if I didn't read his books?

Care about what? Sorry, need more info to understand your question.

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