Quote Originally Posted by Fig-bearing Thistle View Post
Actually, you aren't far off. Hence the tie in with references in Genesis to "image" and "likeness".

¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. (Gen 1:26)

And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth: (Genesis 5:3)

Do you know what "beget" means?

Here from Miriam-Webster:
1 : to procreate as the father : sire
2 : to produce especially as an effect or outgrowth

Just as man does not ex nihilo conjure up life when we beget in kind, neither does God conjure up our existence when he begets in kind.
Genesis does not say that God begot us.

So what do you have to say now?

Andy