They say he is the son of god, but a mortals his mom and dad. To me “God” was just someone who escaped death, and had a vision like Nostradamus about who would preach his good word. Hence Jesus the “Son of God,” or just a premonition by a delirious old man.
Also if we’re made in god’s image. Then why are Aliens if they do exist, never actually seen by our own eyes, and are so much more advanced?? God to me is death, and Jesus knew how to avoid the 2nd coming of death.
1)Also if we’re made in god’s image. Then why are Aliens if they do exist, never actually seen by our own eyes, and are so much more advanced?? 2)God to me is death, and Jesus knew how to avoid the 2nd coming of death.
two points here.
our god is anthropomorphized to be more human, we made god in our own image. “if” (this is up to personal opine of course) god does exist who’s to say that he would create other races? it’s our own terracentric view that keeps god as anthropomorphized and aliens an impossibility.
I think jesus was in fact teaching about reincarnation, and his own path to enlightenment. an interesting take on this theory is presented in the book “Jonathon Livingston Seagull”
Did Jesus mean the same thing when he talked about being the son of God as others have taken it to mean?
Was he identifying a unique relationship (Jesus is God’s son and nobody else is) or a kind of relationship (Jesus is God’s son, just as every man is God’s son)?
Would Jesus have thought of all men, and not himself alone, as sons of God?
Was he speaking metaphorically (my relationship to God is like that of a beloved son and his loving father) or literally?
When Jesus said, “I and the Father are One,†did he mean this in an exclusionary sense (I am one with God and you are not) or in an inclusion-ary sense (in a Hindu context unity with the Godhead is possible for everyone)?
xander you should post that in Burning’s open mind thread
Yes, he could, or I could just read and respond here.
I think the question you should ask is what would it mean to the human race if we were all “Sons/Daughters of God” in the sense of being equal to God.
How does that apply to our terrestrial existence?
Well, who knows if ‘being made in God’s image’ is a physical reference or
a reference to the fact we posess self-awareness. Perhaps we are made WITHIN God’s image.
When Jesus said he had ‘sheep not of this fold’ that he had to go tend to, perhaps he was referencing aliens. Didn’t Jesus say the planets were as vast and as numerable as the sands on the seashore and that God wears them all like a garment???
well for a deeper understanding let’s think about what the intended goal is as being christian. To emulate christ. To be christ like. If christ is “god” then we must make ourselves god.
Our goal is to be more godlike. To be more responsible, less lazy, and more compassionate.
hard work eh?
God is so vast, magnificent and unfathomable that there is no way we could have been made in God’s image. This universe probably makes God in our image so we can identify with Him because we could not identify with an alien. So, whenever there is need for reform on earth, the universal genius creates a God among us, like Christ, with whom we can identify, and reveals stuff to Him. God cannot be death or would you say that Satan gives us life? Eh?