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Originally Posted by El Blanco
I don't think it was meant in a physical sense. I think it was meant to mean we can evolve to God's level.
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Ah, you must be mormon.
It said image, it meant image. Image doesn't mean "eventually be little gods" (which is blasphamas). It means he stands upright, has two arms and two legs, and so he made us.
Note, if you are a little confused, in the Bible many people got to see god with their own eyes on earth, some even touched him. He was called Jesus at this time. I am pretty sure he had a normal human body.
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Originally Posted by Perndog
But in Genesis it says God doesn't want us to be like him - Adam and Eve were forbidden to eat from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil because that is exactly the thing that made us like God. And if we needed that to be like God, us being created in his image (before eating from the tree) can't have meant we were created to think like he did.
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Almost. The Tree of All Knowledge (its "all knowledge") just gave us the knowledge of God. It didn't give us God's abilities.