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descriptions of Himself as figures of speech which are called anthropomorphisms. Let’s look at Genesis 1:27. “And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.” “Our image,” in English; The Image of God (: tzelem , "image of God", or “Imago Dei” in Latin; “imagen de Dios” in Spanish, each of these translations have the same understanding. We mortals, humans, homo sapiens, have bodies fashioned not unlike God’s. If we have bodies and if there is a God, this verse clearly states we were created in God’s image. This is the crux of the consideration that God has a body. “Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” (Genesis 2:7) God has lungs and is required to be alive to give mankind life and psyche in order to breathe it into Adam. When I contemplate “in His own image,” what God looks like, the more I realize “His own image, in the image of God” is the key. God doesn’t have human physique—we have God’s physique called “human.” God indicates He has a human physique, including hands, face, mouth, eyes, arms, olfactory, and mouth, or a human physique. “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.” (Romans 1:20)
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