Skip to main content

What the "Image of God" Really Means, God’s Parenting Model, Purposes of Life, Exercising Power & much more.


The Sixth Day of Creation is packed with instructions, principles and wisdom most Bible readers are completely unaware of. Rabbi Jeffrey Leynor and Jim Myers discovered the things below, and more, embedded in the Hebrew words of the account of the Sixth Day of Creation in Genesis 1.

● Humans share an Earthly soul with the animals.

● “The image of God” is a “them” -- not a “him” or a “her.

● God’s model of “parenting.”

● Gender equality in the ancient text.

● “Impulse control” and “self-discipline.”

● God’s model for exercising power.

● Purposes of life.

● Jewish & Christian “images of God” are different.

● Judaism & Christian Religions view history differently.

View the discussions between Rabbi Jeffrey Leynor and Jim Myers about the Sixth Day of Creation by clicking on the links below.

Creation of Animals (6:37 minutes)

Creation of Humans #1 (6:41 minutes)

Creation of Humans #2 (6:31 minutes)


Dominion & Exercising Power (8:58 minutes)

God's Diets for Humans & Others (4:16 minutes)

Jewish & Christian Images of God (11:48 minutes)

To see the complete list of videos for the First Account of CreationClick Here.

Share and discuss the information in the videos with your friends too.

Comments

Popular posts from this blog

How Changing a Belief Changes What You Actually See!

The human brain is a powerful belief engine. It processes massive amounts of information flowing into it, but we can use it until the brain chooses a belief model. We perceive what the belief model it has allows us to see. Continue reading at - https://mailchi.mp/369c4bdc7685/how-changing-a-belief-changes-what-you-actually-see

But what if a lot of us have been wrong about a lot of things . . . maybe about life after death?

How many of us have spent a lot of our lives being wrong -- not about everything – but about some important things. Now let’s expand that thought to generations of people who lived their whole lives being wrong about some big things ? Continue reading at -- https://mailchi.mp/e35c5751ab8d/but-what-if-a-lot-of-us-have-been-wrong-about-a-lot-of-things-maybe-about-life-after-death

Why are we are always pointing a finger at someone else?

Rabbi Dov Peretz Elkins’ book The Wisdom of Judaism is loaded with very useful information. His discussion about “ Personal Growth ” is based on a quote from the Babylonian Talmud ( Bava Metzia 107b ): Improve yourself, and only afterward, try to improve others . Below are some quotes from his discussion. I have reformatted the text in a few places to highlight specific points the rabbi made. Sometimes, when trying to make the point that we need to start with ourselves, I ask people to stretch out their hand and point with their index finger. Then I ask them to notice where the third, fourth and fifth fingers are pointing. . . . There is a wonderful Hasidic tale that illustrates this point. A famous Hasidic rebbe once proclaimed that when he was a young rabbi: his idealistic and romantic goal was to change the world. After a while, he realized that his aspiration was too grandiose, and so he lowered his expectations and said that he would be satisfied if he could just chang