I got a bible from my sister as a gift. I am going to start reading it soon and have started briefly..little at a time. To mentally digest, so to speak. I am spiritual but the bible itself I don't take much stock in. Why read it, then, you may ask? Because I can learn things. Some I will take at face value, some I will be suspicious about because...in my opinion...it was written BY man FOR man. And no man was perfect and had agendas since the beginning of time..which means all those translations can't be perfectly correct.
Anyway..I digress. I am going to read it...maybe hopping around, maybe from front to back. I won't know until I delve in to it more. So this is where you guys come in. The ones that DO believe the bible wholeheartedly. I ask for opinions. Some I will accept. Some I will not. Depends on what feels "right" to me, since I also believe each person has their own path, their own beliefs, their own gut instinct of what seems to be right for them..individually.
So for my very first question, here is a quote that made me stop reading for awhile until I digest what your opinions are in the meaning of the following:
26 And God went on to say: “Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth.”27And God proceeded to create the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them.
1. Who is US and OUR?
2. If God is spiritual and not flesh and blood...how does a spirit have form to look humanoid?
Hi Gracie girl. How art thou, my sister?
1. The rest of the Trinity, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit who were there from the beginning. When we hear "image" we think of what we see in the mirror, or a snapshot.
But it refers to personality more than picture. We are made in God's emotional image.
We men and women are able to experience the same feelings that God experiences:
Happiness
Sadness
Love/Loved
Grief
Anger
Joy
Humility
Wrath
Compassion.
We are chips off the old block.
2. God walked in Eden. He sat, ate, laughed with Abraham. God is able to manifest Himself into any image He desires. He can be surrounded by fire or hidden inside of cloud of smoke. He has no limits.
Christ was called Emanuel, which means, 'God with us' in the flesh. Because He is a truly hands on Father, and is personally involved with us.
I know how you feel about the Bible being written by man but it was not. It was scribed by man that's all. While it would be impossible for you and I to write a coherent novel
without interacting with each other, the authors of the books of the Bible did just that by way of the Holy Spirit, without referring to each other to make sure their words mesh.
To avoid being mislead, always rely on the original Hebrew and Greek to make sure what you are reading hasn't been corrupted.
Bibles are now being politically correctly rewritten to exclude Jesus as being the Son of God.
If you come across one of them burn it. It is blasphemy by omission.
Hugs and kisses to you sweetie.
