Man as Made in the Image of God

[Eodnhoj7]

Man's awareness, as grounded in the ability to measure, is the ability to create distinctions with the distinction being the act of creation and destruction itself. For example in separating a sheep from a herd a new category is created, that of the individual sheep, while the herd is negated. One phenomenon, that of the herd, exists and this phenomenon is broken down into a different state, that of the individual sheep. In observing a phenomenon the phenomenon changes and this change is the construction of a new phenomenon and a destruction of the prior. This change is the act of distinction and this distinction is individuation. Individuation is the manifestation of one singular state into a variation of itself into a new singular state thus is similar to the making of fractals. A herd broken down to an individual sheep is the manifestation of fractals.

It is this ability to create distinctions that mirrors itself where that which makes distinctions distinguishes itself into a new form which makes further distinctions. Not only does one act of distinction manifest itself into a new distinction but the distinguisher manifests itself into a new distinguisher. This act of distinguishing distinguishment is a mirroring process with this mirroring process being the act of replication. This replication is the maintenance of the old through the variation of the new thus is a process of perpetual renewal. The nature of measurement is thus a process of renewal where the man as measurer is the creator renewing itself through the nature of self measurement as self reflection. One phenomenon distinguishes itself through another with this new phenomenon as a variation being an image of the prior in this case the one phenomenon being God and the other man.

The process of measurement manifests itself into a new process of measurement with this focal point of measurement being the act of observation itself thus the manifestation of one observer into another. One measurement manifests itself into another therefore one observer manifests into another.

[FrankGSterleJr]

I believe that, not only do conservative Christians not own the faith, they don’t clearly understand the true nature of Jesus Christ.

Biblical interpretations aside, did God really require the immense bodily suffering by His own incarnation in place of that (impossibly) sustained by a sinful humankind as atonement for His consistent disdain for any sin whatsoever. Could God have become pacifistically turn-the-other-cheek personified, performed numerous unmistakable miracles, then experienced intense suffering and death before his resurrection, to prove to us that there really was hope for all, including the many enduring hopeless disbelief in a Jehovah they were always taught was/is readily angry and retributive?

Perhaps Jesus didn’t die FOR humans as payment for their sins, the greatest being mostly the result of often-unchecked testosterone rushes; rather, Christ was brutally murdered BECAUSE of humans’ seriously flawed sinful nature. He was viciously killed because he did not in the least behave in accordance to corrupted human conduct—and in particular because he was nowhere near to being the blood-thirsty vengeful behemoth so many wanted or needed their saviour to be and therefore believed he’d have to be.

(I personally like to imagine Jesus Christ being one who’d enjoy a belly-busting laugh over a good, albeit clean, joke with his disciples, rather than always stoically serious, as portrayed.)

Could the angry human need for having what we perceive we're entitled to, including retributive ‘justice’—regardless of Christ (and great spiritual teachers) having emphasized unconditional forgiveness and love—be intrinsically linked to the same unfortunate aspect of humankind that enables the most horrible acts of cruelty to readily occur on this planet (while making our creator’s nature in our own vengeful and even violent image)?

What if we made God’s nature in our own vengeful image?