Thursday, January 26, 2017
DIFFERENCES
DIFFERENCES
Mankind's making of God in the image and likeness of mankind, itself, did not end with the mere external appearances--like color, gender, hair texture--but, rather man's casting and portrayal of God reached inside to the spiritual, the emotional character of God as well.
God was given man's emotional make-up. Joy, sadness, anger, jealousy, regret, were among many human attributes, and emotional characteristics, that have been given to God by mankind's faiths.
In Genesis 6:6, for example, we see that :
"The Lord regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled."
"Regret" is as human as "heart," as is "he had made"; human attributes are all three: regret, heart, and he had made. God is outside time or space. Yet, mankind personalized God, then he later personified God!
"My ways are not your ways; my thoughts are not your thoughts," says the word. But, we often differ !
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