Many quote this passage in an attempt to show that God is inscrutable—that He is so different from us that He is impassive, that He shares no mental characteristics whatever with humanity.For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (Isaiah 55:8,9 ESV)
But if that were the case, then what does it mean to have been created in His image? (Gen 1:27)
Certainly, we are not created in God's physical image, since He is not physical but is totally spirit. (John 4:24)
There seems to be only one way that remains—that we are mentally and emotionally similar, and that we must understand Isaiah 55:8,9 in a different way. I think I know that different way in the light of the preceding verse, Isaiah 55:7.
Any thoughts on this matter?