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  1. Ted L Glines

    Image of God #7

    What is your soul, and what does it look like? Show me your soul and I'll show you a snapshot of God. That brings us to defining the God concept, and thus will guarantee another few thousand years of hot debate as everyone tries to force their own God concept down everybody else's throat...
  2. Ted L Glines

    Image of God #6

    Atheists, especially, have fallen victim to the false God-image concepts. Recently, an atheist said that God could not exist because he had studied biology and had learned that evolution was a fact. Yes, God could not exist because lizards had evolved into birds. That was his thinking. When...
  3. Ted L Glines

    Image of God #5

    Investing God with humanized attributes like love, compassion, empathy, hate, and jealousy -- weakens God; reduces God to something less than omnipotence, and it raises confusing questions such as, "If God is a God of love, why does He allow the abuse of children?" How many times have we heard...
  4. Ted L Glines

    Image of God #4

    Our human body is a wonderful machine which processes earthly substances into nutrients for growth and self-survival, thus giving it the longevity needed as a host for our soul. When this body dies, the soul moves on, no longer needing the rotting cadaver, or the earthly life-support system...
  5. Ted L Glines

    Image of God #3

    Many religions have humanized God when they should have been seeking to make humans more godly. God is seen as an old guy sitting on a cloud reading a large book, and he looks like Zeus. Funerals are more or less ornate as we lay a body to rest in a worshipful manner. The word necrophilia comes...
  6. Ted L Glines

    Image of God #2

    In the Book of Genesis (Jewish Bible or Old Testament) 1:27, it is said, "God created man in His own image" and the way we interpret this can be problematic. Many believers think that this "image" refers to the design of our human body. By reversing this, they can extrapolate that God has two...
  7. Ted L Glines

    Image of God #1

    Once upon a time, there was a nerdy cave-person or tree-dweller who said to himself, "Geez, I know there is more to me than this body with big flat feet and a mouth that yells at everything. I am somehow standing apart from this clumsy body; like I am riding it or something." Thus, our slightly...
  8. Ted L Glines

    Image of God INTRO

    If you are neither an atheist nor an agnostic, and regardless of your chosen religion, you probably have a God-concept - an image of what or who God is. If you are a Christian, you were given a warm-n-fuzzy image of God in Sunday School. Highly humanized. Supportive and sometimes warlike. Over...
  9. Ted L Glines

    Howdy, Good People

    I am a Christian (other) because I follow Jesus while avoiding the churches which have never lived up to His Name. Does that make me a Jesuit? My concept of God does not have 2 eyes, nose, ears, mouth, 2 arms, a belly button, 2 legs and stinky feet. Nor does God look like Zeus. I do not humanize...
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