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τὸ θεῖον, i.e., a god's action. I don't think Godhead is good rendering of this word and others like it. But I like how it discourages angel worship or ascribing Jesus to be the very deity.

You are giving me a headache. The image is a model which is male and female. Earth is not planet Earth, but the soil, and the heavens are the rock elevations. This is how I understand it in both testaments.

Scripture please, if you want anyone to take you seriously on trinity idols?

@ScottA This is my response to the title of this thread. They didn't not have shape.

Samaritans worshipped what they didn't understand. Does the NT condemn for making idols of YHWH?

Usually, I translate consistently, but what I know would change English translations dramatically.

The angels are the sons of the God. Perhaps, I don't know what you were saying.

The angels have their own image and design. You speculate but the scriptures don't say no or yes.

While it is implied that Angels are made in an image of God, Adam and Eves mankinds are explicitly said to have been. Male and female he created them.

ὁ λόγος σὰρξ o logos sarx

There is the name of God, who is not a man for this case.

Saved is not the same as God raising or even waking dead ones.

I am not one to dare say this. I don't believe that belief is more important obedience for "salvation". There is a way to obey Moses' law without know Christ, Judaism or Christianity.

A word of flesh became or happened etc. Yes it did.

οὗτος, this word makes sense as something pointing to a similar but different action. The translation is not loose but follows unexpected rules.

1:1 Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν καὶ θεὸς ἦν. ὁ λόγος 1:2 οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν In the beginning, it was. A word and a word, it was with a God; and the God it was. A word another it was in the beginning with a God.

Exactly.

He still doesn't understand that the Arians believed in the pre-existence of souls... an Origenism. Arius thought people could become sons of God while alive. There are many Church Fathers who believed that there was when the son wasn't. It is not a particularly Arian concept.

Evertime you think he needs to be Jesus Christ. "I AM a WAY a TRUTH and a LIFE, no one is being [sent] to the FATHER but thru me"

Perhaps, pattern. Pattern of colors and images associated with a form. Still this doesn't prove your point as you will see later. You have a pattern which shares divine action of God. The English is deceptive, but not disclusive. Actually, the NIV reflects it inaccurately and decides to use a...