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1. I've wondered what is meant by the phrase "made in the image and likeness of God".

Fri Sep 23, 2016, 05:48 AM

Sep 2016

It seems to me the likeness we have is consciousness and self-consciousness. The ability to think and to be aware. Cogito ergo credo.

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I just read Ram Dass's "Be Love Now." [View all] Tobin S. Sep 2016 OP

That makes more sense to me as an interpretation Tobin S. Sep 2016 #2