And he created man in his image. Right? God created man "in his image." Jesus called him Daddy, Abba, Father and he created us in his image. Not just looks I'd imagine, but temperament and abilities. He created us with the ability to create. Yet you have people that, seeing some of man's creations scream of evil and blasphemy. How is it blasphemy to do what we are made to do? I used to think I was against cloning and bioengineering research, but what if it IS what God wants us to do? Wouldn’t that make him proud? His children following in his footsteps? In his image? One might even think that God has made mistakes before in creating, I suppose it's a learning process. I'm not saying it's right for man to destroy what god has created, like when a child breaks some of their parent's good china dishes. But man should be allowed to create freely, not to play God as some choose to call it, but to freely act as they were created to act, to play in his image, like playing Daddy. I had a dream where god took the outcasts, but only the children, the abandoned children and had an orphanage where he trained them to be avenging angels. And they were cold, and God in my dream made mistakes. Because if he was perfect and he created us in his image, we too would be perfect. But since we are NOT perfect one can assume it is one of two things, either there was a flaw in God's creation process so that we did not turn out perfect in his image OR God is not perfect and his creation of us was. Either way, there is a mistake made. We are made in his image, flaws and all. We are not all powerful as a whole, the way god is, but are we not, sometimes, all powerful to some people. In the eyes of our children, we can either make or destroy them however right or wrong it is? Is that not exactly what God, our Father is to us? He can make or destroy us, and when he takes us away we are supposed to accept that it is God's will. Yet man has the same amount of difficulty accepting when people murder. Is that not what God chooses to do to us on occasion? Murder us? Are we not acting in his image, the image of the vengeful god, the lord who giveth and the lord who taketh away? I find it incredible that the Bible pushers feel they can push one sentence in that book above the rest. "Thou shalt not lie with another man," or "Thou shalt not commit adultery" "Thou shalt worship no other god before me" what about "And God, in his image, created man"? Because in that simple sentence he both blesses our lives and condemns us to live as he must -imperfectly.