Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Human and God Referencing

Just food for thought:
Some of the differences in how we refer to humans, about humans and actions by humans using human references and god references.

Something done from love to humanity or compassionate, decent:
Human reference – Humane
God reference – Godlike, Godly or Divine



Someone that does something humanely:
Human reference – Humanitarian
God reference – ?

Something that is similar to humans:
Human reference – Humanoid
God reference – ? (Should be Godoid since humans are allegedly made in Gods' image)

To view another animal as more humanlike than it really is:
Human reference – Humanize (also anthropomorphize)
God reference – Godize? (again because we are in his/her/its image)

To be extremely cruel and unjust:
Human reference – Inhumane
God reference – Godly, Godlike or Righteous

To do something extremely cruel and unjust:
Human reference – Inhuman
God reference – Godly, Godlike or Righteous

To do something that is natural for humans:
Human reference – Human nature
God reference – Sin

This is not all-inclusive, feel free to add others you may think of. Also, this is my interpretation of the words, feel free to disagree.

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