Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: uflorida!novavax!gowj@gatech.edu (James Gow) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: DOES GOD HAVE A PENIS (SERIOUS - HONEST) Message-ID: Date: 13 May 91 06:36:19 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Nova University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Lines: 65 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article ATINTON@esoc.bitnet writes: >In the first part of the bible, with ADAMS creation, it goes something like > >this : > >"God created man in his own image" > >And so with much discussion with some christian I know, they tell me that >I have to accept that GOD is in the image of a man, the perfect being. > >If he is a man then, should he not have a penis. And the sole function >of the penis is to propagate the species. Therefore one could assume that >the is a female companion to GOD, more than one GOD, or a race of GODS. > >Since God is a spirit we must conclude that the image of God is Jesus. 1 John says noone has seen God so the only way we can see God is in Jesus. 2 cor 4:4 "...christ whoe is the image of God." So in Genisis when it says God mad man in his own image we must understand it was talking about Jesus. God the father whoe we can not see or understand had to work through Jesus since we cannto understand the infinite. Yes I belive God in the person of Jesus ahd a penis but God the father on his son Jesus are one so they are different but equal. This is the is and the is not of God. Eastern philosophy can only be fulfilled in christ. The ying and the yang can only be explained by christ adn his father. If you want to come to true enlightment you must come to it through Jesus of Nazareth. Outside of this truth there is only glasses that are half full. All religions all philosophys only find their fullfillment in Christ. If you want to know wha it is all about find Jesus he has the answers to all of lifes problems and mysterys. >[Since the authors of the OT thought God was immortal and invisible, >it's clear that they couldn't have meant the term "image" to refer to >the physical body. One can get an idea of at least some of what the > I blieve they did after all Jesus always existed. He is the eternal Son. The Jews saw Jesus noah ate with him Adam hid from him in the coool of the day gen 3:8. author had in mind from other things in the creation account. E.g. >in the same verse mankind is given dominion over the earth. In Gen 2 >(which probably has somewhat different sources, but still shows Hebrew >thought about creation) we see God breathing his spirit into the man. >Note the difference: the body is *made*, from the dust. The spirit is >breathed from God. From these two passages one might conclude that > this wrod breathe is plural from which we get the concept spirit and soul. the image involves at least that God and humankind are both >responsible moral agents, and that our spiritual side is related to >God. I'm sure others will have other suggestions. --clh] Our physical side is also related to God. Remember Jacob wrestled with him and he threw his hip out of joint. This was flesh nd bone so God in the person of Jesus Christ had a physical existance from eternity. Our flesh is not to be despised since it was made by God. It is to be brougth under subjection and the spirit is to rule it but since God in Jesus ahd a fleshly and does have a fleshly existence we are not to hate our bodies. Remember we are to love our wifes as our own flesh but it submits to our spirits nto our spirits to our flesh. YOr body hurts when it is burned or bruised. God desinged it not for abuse but for care. linc james