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Gaawa_chan posted...

So God created man in his own image

No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.
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If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
And he has given us this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.

@Gaawa_chan
First is easy, thats just is alluding to the fact that God's Physical form is similar to the human body.

Third is saying God's most important quality is love and if we want to be like him and follow his ways we need to exude that quality. If someone is hateful then they are being hypocritical and their proclamation that they love God is false. I would say thats a great bible verse to quote to Christians who are being hateful of...lets say gay people, because it would point out that they arent being true to their faith since Love is common reoccurring theme in the bible.

Second is very confusing so try to bear with me. It is talking about God living in us as a reference to when you "surrender yourself to God" you become reborn spiritually and his "holy spirit resides within you" (this is what is supposed to get a Christian into heaven). This came about when God came to the earth as himself(Jesus) in order to sacriface himself for the sins of man (replacing sacrificing the lamb). This is where the "holy trinity" comes from.

You may hear Christians say they want to be "more god-like", that just means they want to exude traits referred to as the "fruits of the spirit" (love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control). However to portray yourself as or claim to be God or Jesus is extremely sacrilegious so yes this painting is offensive to most Christians.