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Originally Posted by BrianFantana  Excuse me, but: "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them" (Genesis 1:27). By simple definition, one cannot be the same as one's creator. There is creator, and there are the created, the Bible is very clear in this. Please go back and read the rest of my quote which you cut out in your reply. I said that Christianity teaches that we were created by God, which as I alluded to is then directly opposed to the idea of our being "one with God". We are, according to the Bible, God's people, not gods. |
The Bible contradicts itself, just as Jesus contradicts the earlier teachings.
Yet consider that it is possible to be both the creator and the created. That is in fact what God is, and what we are.
By the way, the Genesis translation was changed. It originally read "we created man in our image". You won't find this in any official document. I 'just know it', and it has come up in various discussions of the Bible. I just share it to give you a little food for thought. What if?
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Yet, if the dissimilarities are shallow, why were millenia worth of religious wars fought?
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Because most peoples' understandings of their religions is shallow.