Re: Some new, some old topics
Posted by: joerevesz <joerevesz@...>
> What qualifies as a non-human? We're told that Human beings are
created in the image of God. Since the theological question of what the
image of God actually consists of has been around since Moses wrote that
description, I don't think we could come up with
> In my own opinion, "image of God" means both that an individual has a
> physical body, categorically overlaps with God as a thinking,
> emotive and volitional person and has an understanding - dormant or
not - of
> God and spiritual things. Animals don't count because they are more
> instinctual than volitional. Angels don't qualify because they lack
> a physical body. By that logic, there's nothing that would exclude
elves,
> dwarves, halflings etc, from being "Human." Any that existed on Earth
> would be a son of Adam anyway and would be included in group that needs
> Jesus' death to be forgiven of sins.
I cannot agree that the image of God includes a physical body, the Bible
says that "God is spirit", spirits do not have physical bodies. Among
other things, what it does include is an eternal spirit and a relational
component that was meant to commune with God.
I may be mistaking your meaning, but having to have a physical body like
God does or did sounds like teachings of Mormonism.
Joe