Here are the two pictures side-by-side, for comparative purposes. The resemblance is striking.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
If we are to accept that Genesis 1:26 and 1:27 are correct (that God created Man in His own image, after His own likeness), and if we further accept that the Neandertal was also a man, created by God, then it follows that God resembles Neandertal Man, who was created in His likeness. [/quote]
God is pretty jacked.
[quote]Zap Branigan wrote:
God is pretty jacked.[/quote]
Yeah, but he lost a lot of muscle when he got older, stopped training and started smoking cuban cigars.
[quote]Varqanir wrote:
If we are to accept that Genesis 1:26 and 1:27 are correct (that God created Man in His own image, after His own likeness), and if we further accept that the Neandertal was also a man, created by God, then it follows that God resembles Neandertal Man, who was created in His likeness. [/quote]
Actually, man was not created in God’s likeness physically. It is our spirits that resemble God because God is a spirit:
“23But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” John 4:23-25
[quote]TQB wrote:
As the Roman crushing of the three Jewish revolts were not genocides, just common or garden mass murder, most of the inhabitants of the then Palestine probably took cover and moved back under other guises, while many others went into exile. No big deal, if it hadn’t led to the present “I came here before you” contest. One thing we can be sure of is that neither group were at that time related to the Arabs of the peninsula.[/quote]
Historically there has been a lot of genetic mixing in that area since the Roman times – Israel was under Roman/Byzantine rule, then Arab Muslims, then Crusading Europeans, then Persians, then Mongols, and then Turks.
The Jewish culture was historically quite insular, but I imagine there has been at least some mixing with all those groups.