Tag: Image of God

• Genesis One – Us, Images, and Subduing

  “God said, ‘Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule … over all the earth … and subdue it.’ Firstly, to whom is God referring when he uses the plural “us” and “our” in relation to “image” and “likeness”? The answer is to be found in the literary and […]

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  15th Mar 2022

  Hebrew Bible, Literature, Mythology, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Canaanites, Climate Change, Earth, Genesis, God, Image of God, Other Creatures, Yahweh

• Rethinking ‘God’ (3) ‘Body or Spirit’

  In the 3rd post in this series, it’s time to consider how we might re-think ‘God’. The traditional view is that the Bible tells us everything about him that we need to know. The problem with that is, that the Bible’s picture is inconsistent and sometimes even contradictory.  On the one hand, God has a […]

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  23rd Oct 2021

  Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Bible, God, Image of God, Israelites, Myth, Spirit, Traditional