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Well it's no wonder some Jews regarded the Apostles as cultists with this interpretation. If the Hebrew bible wasn't symbolic then how'd we end up with the Talmud or the Haftorah? Translation is everything. The Hebrew version uses several words in place of god, and then a whole other list of words that aren't even written, that we are supposed to say in place of the words that are written...and none of them refer to Jesus. Meanwhile, most First Testaments published in the US break that rule, and have the word God all over the place, often refering to god as a "he" when the word was never gender specific. So apparently interpration means a lot, and it's true, there are several meanings for words, and some of these meanings change over time. When you're speaking of Hebrew, it's not just the meanings that are important, but the gender tense as well. I don't recall the Hebrew Bible talking about Jews in the image of god...rather it's the idea that we are all made up of god, because god is all encompassing, that is preached. We're not supposed to strive to be god like, but we are supposed to appreciate the value of our godly worth. See the difference?


Supafly - "Yes. He said image in Hebrew version. The Hebrew version was the original version of the Old Testament. The Greek version was the original version of the New Testament (that is the version I read).
Aramaic is irrelavent.
Other than Revelations, everything is to be taken literally in the Bible. There is no symbolic meaning to the story of the garden of Eden. The Hebrew people were very literal scholors. They didn't write deep works of liturature that left you to make your own conclusion of what it symbolized. It is still up to you on what the meaning, or lesson is behind all them is of course. "