How You Can Talk With God

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Meaning of " The Image of God "

 

In the Bible we read: " For in the image of God made He man. " (John

10:30) No one has ever fully explained in what ways man is the image

of God. God is Spirit; and man, in his essential nature, is also

Spirit. That is the primary meaning of the Biblical passage, but there

are many other true interpretations as well.

 

The whole human body and the consciousness and motion in it are a

microcosmic representation of God. In consciousness is omniscience and

omnipresence. You can immediately think you are at the North Star or

on Mars. In thought there is no gulf between you and anything else. By

virtue of the consciousness within man, therefore, he may be said to

be made in the image of God.

 

Consciousness is aware of itself; it intuitively feels itself. God,

through His cosmic consciousness, is aware of Himself in every atom of

creation. " Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing " and one of them

shall not fall on the ground without (the awareness of) your Father. "

(Matthew 10:29).

 

Man also has the innate power of cosmic consciousness, though few

develop it. Man also has will, whereby he, like the Creator, can

create worlds instantaneously; but few develop that power which is

within them. The animals cannot reason, but man can. All the

attributes that God has -- consciousness, reason, will, feeling, love

-- man has too. In these qualities man may be said to be made in the

image of God.

 

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