Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site we53.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!we53!bmt From: bmt@we53.UUCP ( B. M. Thomas ) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Re: Gender of God -- More or less than a person? Message-ID: <232@we53.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Aug-84 17:16:01 EDT Article-I.D.: we53.232 Posted: Fri Aug 17 17:16:01 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 01:32:56 EDT References: <499@bunker.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Technologies - St. Louis Missouri Lines: 25 If, as Scripture says, [Mm]an is made in the image of God, then the idea of personality originates with God, and not with men. God is thus a person, and we are persons because of having been created like [Hh]im, instead of God being a person or not being a person based on whether or not he is like us, or whether we think he is like us. Sexuality is also his idea, and we are sexual beings, but like everything else, I believe that this has some meaning. Many of the scriptures quoted in this discussion imply that the idea of human sexuality derive from God's relation- ship with Man. God's idea is also that we should have something like equality with him by identifying with us through coming to earth to live as one of us. It is also Jesus that he wants to be the answer to all of the questions about what God is like. Jesus is likewise the closest thing you are going to get to an objective proof that God even exists. He either was what he said he was(God in human flesh) or he was a liar. We may all be liars, but if Jesus told the truth, you can trust him. (My God, what WAS I talking about...?) Sorry about the ramble. Hope you get the point(s). Love ya. from over the rainbow of we53!bmt(Brian M. Thomas @ AT&T Technologies, St. Louis, MO) If you think I'm nuts, you're not the only one.