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Sahid
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Posted 9/8/2004 11:53 PM (GMT -6)

Here an idea that is new to me.

God made man in his image, male and female. Is it only that both male and female were made in his image, or might it also be that male and female together (as a whole) were made in his image? Think social trinty: Lover, Beloved, and Loving. Did God create humankind in his image by creating us as lovers and beloveds in a relationship of loving?

Watch me fly. Freedom like wings and I will use them. Freedom like wings and I will spread them wide. - Stavesacre

selah
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Posted 9/9/2004 12:42 AM (GMT -6)

I don't know about that sahid, but check out some of Ramon Lull's (1232-1315) stuff on the lover and beloved (our relationship with God)... beautiful!

I'm reading Tree of Love, but he's got much more.

I'm thinking about moving to Spain Wink

love,
selah

"When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world."

Scout Cloud Lee

Asher
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Posted 9/10/2004 5:14 PM (GMT -6)

Check out "An Ember Still Glowing: Humankind as the Image of God" by Harry Boer

A snippet:

"God brought into being a partner, a companion, a friend with whom he could have dialogue and fellowship. He did this on a scale as vast and grand as the concepts 'image' and 'creation' could conceivably permit: he made Man to be co-divine to the limits of the possible, against the background of an infinitely complex and beautiful macro-microcosmic environment. Such was Man when he trod the new-formed earth---Man the image of God, God's own and beloved alter ego.
The image that God created was one, not two which by the reproductive process could become many. When Adam and Eve were brought into being, they were not each an image of God. As individuals they were male and female. As a oneness they constituted mankind. They were humanity. Genesis 1:26-27 reports, "Let us make MAN in our image...so God created MAN in his own image, in the image of God he created HIM; male and female he created THEM." We do well always to understand that according to the biblical picture there is only one image of God. This expressed itself first in two people, husband and wife, who by reproduction constituted a family out of which grew other families, then clans, tribes, nations, races. But always when few became many and many became thousands and thousands became millions, there was always one, and only one, imago Dei.
In that one image all human beings participate. But this participation means exactly what it says: all reflect one image, which like a tree producing ever more branches and foliage does not cease to be one and the same tree. It is the fact of participation in the one image of God that make her, that makes him, a human being. But there is only one humanity which is the image of God. No one person is or has ever been THE image of God. Only mankind, whether as two or as many, is imago Dei."

Tom
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Posted 9/11/2004 2:03 AM (GMT -6)

Selah: I'm thinking about moving to Spain Wink

Tom: Can you flemenco dance? These two guys Bandit

are both Spanish. Can you tell?

Seriously, my dream is to visit Spain and attend a bullfight and a real flamenco dance. If CVM ever has a big conference, let it be in Madrid!

Tom

selah
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Posted 9/11/2004 11:37 AM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by TGB

Selah: I'm thinking about moving to Spain

Tom: Can you flemenco dance? These two guys are both Spanish. Can you tell?

Seriously, my dream is to visit Spain and attend a bullfight and a real flamenco dance. If CVM ever has a big conference, let it be in Madrid!

Tom

Ok, Madrid. That will be after Naples, Fl. which is a few months after Shipshewana, IN.

Big Smile

So let it be written. So let it be done.

love,
selah

oh... and yes, I will flamenco dance, belly dance, and polka if this comes to pass Bandit2

"Olé!"

Tom
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Posted 9/11/2004 3:18 PM (GMT -6)

Selah: Yes, I will belly dance.

Tom: So let it be written. So let it be done. Blush

Tom

PotOnWheel
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Posted 9/11/2004 3:44 PM (GMT -6)

Sahid, does this remind you of the dorm at three in the morning of finals week, when everyone SHOULD be studying, but they aren't.

Getting a lot done on your disucussion?

Sahid
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Posted 9/11/2004 4:47 PM (GMT -6)

I guess I've made up my mind about it all. It was just new to me so I thought I'd see if someone had something else to add. What Asher said was cool.

Watch me fly. Freedom like wings and I will use them. Freedom like wings and I will spread them wide. - Stavesacre

PotOnWheel
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Posted 9/11/2004 5:05 PM (GMT -6)

quote:
Originally posted by Sahid

What Asher said was cool.

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