Iamon lyme:

> we can worship a God who created us in His image

The question is: are we really created in God's image?

What does that mean? Physically? Intellectually? Spiritually?

And who represent's God's image? Mother Teresa? Adolf Gegenueber aka Hitler? Joseph Stalin? St. Francis of Asisi? Bill Gates? Barrack Obama? George W. Bush? etc. etc.

Are ALL human beings created in God's image? And how do we know what God's image is? We keep regurgitating what Genesis said, but considering the actions of human beings in history, can we justified in saying we are a reflection of God?

If ALL human beings are made in God's image, then Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are God's image too.

I refuse to believe that we were made in God's image. Is God cruel, selfish, greedy, opinionated, inflexible, intolerant, racist, jealous, vengeful, murderous, etc.? It would be nice to say that God is all the good things that humanity has, and then conveniently say that "the Devil made us bad". But then, is the Devil not God's creation too? If human beings do evil, did God not make humans with the capacity and the potential for evil? Then that capacity and potential for evil would be a reflection of God too.

So I think that did not make human beings in his image. God made blank slates reflection nothing of God itself. God has to be nothing like we human beings are, otherwise God is both all the good and all the bad things we are.