A Quote by Rabbi Akiva
Beloved is man, for he was created in the image of God.
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Man first creates the universe in his image, and then turns round to say that God created man in his image... As Voltaire quipped, if God created man in his image, man has returned the compliment.
In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him. And Man gave unto God a multitude of names, that he might be Lord over the earth when it was suited to man.
There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real "you." All the gods are little beings to you, all the ideas of God and Father in heaven are but your own reflection. God Himself is your image. “God created man after His own image." That is wrong. Man creates God after his own image. That is right. Throughout the universe we are creating gods after our own image. We create the god and fall down at his feet and worship him; and when this dream comes, we love it !
It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.
How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?
First, a man is created in his own image, and only afterwards in the image of God.
It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.
In the beginning Man created God: and in the image of Man created he him.
Every single human being is created in the image of God; created for dignity, created for the Father's love, created for kindness, created for mercy.
God made everything else but man "after its kind"' - that is, according to the purpose and destiny he envisaged for it. But he made man in His own image. Man is patterned on God! He was made to represent God - in created, human form.
Take man's most fantastic invention- God. Man invents God in the image of his longings, in the image of what he wants to be, then proceeds to imitate that image, vie with it, and strive to overcome it.
It is not God's function to create or uncreate the circumstances of your life. God created You, in the image and likeness of God. You have created the rest.
God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.
God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.
It says in the Bible, in plain words, that God made a self-portrait. He created man in His own image - man and woman - for God is Love.Why should we start thinking of a god up in the clouds with wings, if He dwells within us in the spirit of Love?!
