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Gender Partnership: A Christian Faith Reflection

Introduction: The image of God could be understood at least in two ways. One, the way God-self is portrayed or presented in our scriptures. It would really hard task, because the Christian scripture itself says that no one had seen God. But in Jesus’ era people had seen Jesus as God’s Son, so God in the Bible was seen in Jesus, because Jesus said whoever sees me is seeing God. Secondly, according to Genesis the entire human are created in image of Creator God. This image is seen in and as human beings. This is how we are taught by our faith traditions. This is an anthropomorphic approach to see God. The Genesis’ explanation is just ‘physical appearance’ of God. Even in many places we are explained about the images and human physical parts like, the hand of God, figure of God, and even St. Paul relates the body of God and the Church like head and other parts. So it explicit that anthropomorphic approach was prevailing even in Judeo-Christian tradition also. Physical Image of God: But th