Then why are humans so inherently evil? Everyone lies, everyone curses, everyone has done something against "gods will" at some point. Unless of course by image it means strictly physically. Honestly it sounds more like we were made by the devil to mock god or something than in his image.
Not challenging christianity or anything like that, just curious.
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Steel Assassinにより編集済み: 2/26/2013 7:34:26 PMI don't believe in the literal meaning, that God has a corporeal form and we represent his physical image. I'm pretty sure that most if not all ancient philosophers believed this. At the very least, St. Augustine seemed to. In any case, the idea "we are made in his image" implies that we are not God, only similar in aspects. We are a lesser being given some aspects of God, or a god. Evil, by some's definition, is the absence of good, rather than being an entity itself. Therefore, our "inherent evil" would be a result from parts of us that are not good, or godlike. Or if you want to look at it this way, part of life is growth and understanding. Since doing that is "good," and we are absent of that in birth, then we are absent of that good in the beginning. Being absent of good is evil, thus making us by that definition inherently evil in birth.
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I'll put my view here. If man is in gods image then he is both male and female which makes him the ugliest, most handsome/beautiful bastard to ever exist and is LGBT so he loves quite literally everybody. So hating any of those things means you hate god, deal with it religion.
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That is logically explained in the Bible. Man was given free will, and is tempted to sin by a rebel angel. What I always wonder is why God would have given us an appendix, tail bone, or wisdom teeth. Did God have useless body parts that he gave us as well? Makes more sense to me that those would be evolutionary remnants, rather than the created image of perfect being.
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Nescioにより編集済み: 2/25/2013 1:00:58 PMI assume that Christians believe that evil exists because Lucifer convinced Adam and Eve to eat the forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Here are some alternatives: Pastafarianism: Because the FSM was drunk when he created everything. Greek mythology: [url=http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1998#comic]Pandora opened a box. [/url] Shinto: Evil spirits that are attracted by acts of impurity.