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[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

We are all images of God, just not the Christian God.

God is perfect, so how can you, with all your imperfections, be his image?

The "Christian God", whom you reject, is Jesus Christ, who is the Lord God Almighty, who is Lord of lords, King of kings, and God of gods. The Holy Bible also calls Jesus the Word of God made flesh. The words he spoke were the words spoken by God. What fault do you find in his words? What fault do you find in Jesus that prevents you from accepting him as the image of God?

I can't reject God, because I come from God...

Lucifer came from God, and yet he rejected God, and all his followers with him. If you reject Jesus, how are you any different from Lucifer, who became God's opposite? Wouldn't you actually be an image of God's adversary?

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Your God - the one you believe in - is not perfect. In your old testament, yhwh regrets making man and displays profound levels of ignorance in creating everything.

I believe that Jesus was most likely a normal man who was enlightened while on earth, and I don't believe in any supernatural claims made in the Bible. There are a lot of things in the Bible that teach good lessons, and some not so good.

The true God doesn't condemn or judge us to hell. God is a God of pure unconditional love. Love doesn't judge, but your Bible God does.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

The Bible God does and also doesn't. It's a contradiction. Because unlike people seem to think for some reason, the book is NOT perfect and was written by PEOPLE. And it never claims otherwise.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Check out Two Old Dudes on YouTube. I agree the Bible is not inerrant, but Christians will claim it is.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The Bible will actually tell you it is quite corrupt. Jeremiah 8:8 is quite explicit. Some will try to say it's referring to other books and commentaries, but chapter 7 specifically calls out animal sacrifice laws, which are plentiful in our current Torah.

There are no hints of an infallible canon of books. Ironically that idea was copied from Marcion.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Marcion used a limited number of books, and only one Gospel: The Gospel of the Lord. I also found a lot of similarities between the Gospel of Thomas and our current synoptic Gospels.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Yes I am quite familiar with Marcion's Bible. It's something they don't want you to know about because it's full of clues about what older copies of the books he used looked like. I also managed to locate Matthew in Hebrew, another source for which there seems to be a conspiracy to discredit. It seems Mark may actually have been written in Latin, because its old Latin has quite a few strange agreements with the Hebrew Matthew, not to mention the writing style. There's a lot you're not supposed to know about, but I've found it.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The New Testament was written in koine Greek.

[–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Most likely. Excluding Matthew and probably Mark. And all the gospel books are assembled from fragments in different languages. I haven't looked into it too much but there was also a Hebrew Revelation, James, and Jude found; and there does seem to be something to it, but I think those books are all forgeries anyway. There is a Hebrew Hebrews but I haven't really looked into that at all. Paul is pure Greek.