Man is Made in God's Image? not in the Way You Think

Many people are familiar with the passage in the Bible that says that, 'God created man in his own image'. When people hear this they immediately project human ideas on a non-human entity. They assume that this passage means that God has arms and legs, a head, a mouth, two eyes, etc. At the same time they will tell you that God is ever present, in all places at once. Obviously you cannot have a bodily form with spatial limits and also be omnipresent. What people fail to realize is that we are made in the image of God in a much more interesting but different way.

This universe you see around you is the body of God in this dimension. God exists in many dimensions simultaneously. If you could get far enough away from the Universe and looked back, it would look like one big thing. The same as a galaxy or a planet or an island or a person. But if you zoomed into any one of these things you would find they are actually made of up many smaller things.

Take a person, they look like on being, but if you zoom in, that person is actually made up of trillions of cells, living organisms that are independent life forms in their own right. Cells from your body can be taken out and grown in a petri dish and have no ill effects as long as they are fed. They can live for years without you being anywhere near them.

Look at the Earth. From space it looks like a blue ball. One thing. But zoom in far enough and you see a whole world of activity that was unnoticeable before. This is a concept know as micro/macro. The large mimics the small and the small mimics the large. The only difference is scale. But if you compare scales, you find that the bacteria on your arm compares to the size of you in the same way that you compare to the size of the planet. We are so tiny it is as if we are the bacteria of the planets surface. Zoom out and that huge blue ball becomes like bacteria among the other stars in our galaxy.

This is what is meant by being made in the image of God. We are a microcosm of the larger whole. God is one thing made of up smaller things, which are made up of even smaller things, on and on down the line until you reach the quantum level where everything becomes energy again. We are made in the same way, we are one thing made up of even smaller things. All of these things work together to create one synergy of being and shared experience.

It is also true to say that we are made in the Image of God because we, like God, are made up holographically. A hologram contains all the information of the whole in each part. Every cell in your body contains the entire blueprint for you body. In the same way, every division of energy in the Universe contains all the information of the rest of Universe. All is one.

It is a bad idea to project human ideas and human thinking onto spiritual concepts because they tend to get muddled up with our preconceptions and expectations. In order to be open to learning, you must take a position of "not knowing" and seek the answers out. If you assume you know what they will be, then why does your search end in vain?

Something to think about.

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