“God made Man in his own image”

 What is God’s image?

It cannot be this body of flesh and bones, as it does not last long.
It cannot be this mind, as it wanders all over the place.

So what is it?

Is it our spirit? Our essential being? But that doesn’t have an image.
Has anyone seen God’s image?

We are embodied beings: the body is not what we are. We are pure awareness.

 Is there a mistake in the original translation? Perhaps they meant spirit…but why then say “image”? Was that a misdirection for a reason?

 Was this translation, “God made man in his own image” created for simple minds? Something in which to believe, and not actually see for themselves. Or was this to keep people simple minded, and inferior to religious dogma, thereby never to realise their truepotential in actuality…God consciousness. But what is God consciousness?

Was there a moment in infinite timelessness in which God decided to create man? Why that precise moment?

According to the Bible, man started with Adam and Eve.
According to the Vedas, man was here much earlier, within many cycles of Yugas constantly changing over vast periods. Although much physical evidence has disappeared, there are texts from the Upanishads that indicate a time of purity.
According to modern scientists we (these bodies) evolved from single cells.

However these are all about physical bodies, not spirit.

Can spirit be created? If so, it can be uncreated. If something is created, it must have parts – but spirit has no parts. Essence is uncontaminated, intelligent, emptiness: pure sacred space.

If this is so, then we are God, and God is just a word for our true being.
It was never created, and so will never die.

Was the idea of an external God a creation to control people?
Did the few make a separate God in order to control the many, thereby making themselves God? Did someone boldly go where we weren’t supposed to go – into a world of make believe?

Our essential nature is what we can recognise for ourselves, with a little help from our inner teacher.