It's a metaphor. He made our souls similar to his own. Obviously someone born without a leg doesn't imply god is missing limbs, nor does it imply god DIDN'T make that particular person in his image or mark them as less worthy of redemption. Same goes for green skin and giant eyes.
To amplify u/DefinitelyNotIGN , the risen Christ is portrayed as a being whose skin is glowing like furnace-heated brass, with a voice like a waterfall and a sword for a tongue. The angels that proclaim the glory of God before His throne are humanoids with six wings, and other angels are depicted as chimeras, some with dozens of eyes. Physical form is the least important aspect of the image of God.
I've always like the "spinning interwoven wheels of a thousand eyes": the Ophanim
That's actually something so fucking insane and impossible that I can almost imagine someone seeing it, going crazy, and this was the best explanation they could give us.
That would probably run into some issues right at the start with the whole "God made man in his image" thing.
It's a metaphor. He made our souls similar to his own. Obviously someone born without a leg doesn't imply god is missing limbs, nor does it imply god DIDN'T make that particular person in his image or mark them as less worthy of redemption. Same goes for green skin and giant eyes.
To amplify u/DefinitelyNotIGN , the risen Christ is portrayed as a being whose skin is glowing like furnace-heated brass, with a voice like a waterfall and a sword for a tongue. The angels that proclaim the glory of God before His throne are humanoids with six wings, and other angels are depicted as chimeras, some with dozens of eyes. Physical form is the least important aspect of the image of God.
I've always like the "spinning interwoven wheels of a thousand eyes": the Ophanim
That's actually something so fucking insane and impossible that I can almost imagine someone seeing it, going crazy, and this was the best explanation they could give us.
Instead of having "eldritch horrors", it's kind of an "eldritch divinity"