Creating God In Our Image

Genesis tells us that God created man and woman in His image.  Through some bizarre chemistry of individualism and enlightenment, I think that has somehow led us today to therefore create our mental construct of God in our own image.

I tend to look at God as a great big me, and not myself as an iddy biddy Him.

When I look at God from this perspective, instead of “how does God love?”, I’m really asking “how would I love if I were God?” Instead of considering myself a tiny bottle in the midst of a limitless God, I find myself pondering how big God’s bottle must be.

When we create God in our image, it’s like starting with the notion of an automobile, and then trying to expand that idea, using our imagination, into the idea of transportation.  We’ll probably never move beyond the idea of lots of cars, maybe into a world of lots of wheeled people carriers, and almost never beyond the idea of propelled boxes full of people and goods.

But if with a child’s mind we take the idea of transportation, which is simply how something moves from one physical location to another, and work down, it would seem quite silly to land only on the idea of cars.  A car is a relatively insignificant object of the idea of transportation.

I don’t know how this applies to our spirituality in any practical manner, but I do think that a critical first step is to recognize that we are just a substructure in the infinite expansive mystery of God.

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