What does God look like?

[DailyBlessings]

That was the indomitable Eleatic, Xenophanes:

"Mortals believe that the gods are born as they are, and have clothes and speech and bodies like theirs...But if cattle and horses had hands, and could draw and create works of art like men do, horses would draw pictures of gods like horses, and cattle of gods like cattle, and make the bodies of their gods in the image of their own kinds...The Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed, and the Thracians have gods with blue eyes and red hair."

 

[HeWhoSearches]

That was the indomitable Eleatic, Xenophanes:

"Mortals believe that the gods are born as they are, and have clothes and speech and bodies like theirs...But if cattle and horses had hands, and could draw and create works of art like men do, horses would draw pictures of gods like horses, and cattle of gods like cattle, and make the bodies of their gods in the image of their own kinds...The Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed, and the Thracians have gods with blue eyes and red hair."

Thanks so much for that. I tried to recite it from very old memory, and not to much success.

 

[polygone]

So cows are Hindus then?

As much as sheep are Christians.

 

[Species8472]

Jesus says, No one has seen Gods' shape or form at anytime; therefore God is not corporeal. God is a spirit and a spirit must be worshipped in Truth.

 

[Eudaimonist]

You could tie this back to how the Greeks messed up Christianity. It is because of our Greek based way of thinking, which tells us that for something to be true it has to be literally true, that causes people to read the Bible like as science book, thus many people today are unable to see the symbolism and real meaning behind these stories (which was, in fact, written well before the mindset that true=literally true came on the scene).

What evidence do you have that the earliest Christianity was non-Greek, and that those early Christians believed that their stories were not to be taken literally?

 

[J Squirrel]

What evidence do you have that the earliest Christianity was non-Greek, and that those early Christians believed that their stories were not to be taken literally?

Weren't the stories of Moses, A&E, Jacob wrestling the angel, etc. around before Christianity? Those stories were wrote down long before the Greeks came along. I said nothing about who the earliest Christians were. There are plenty of Early Church Fathers who have indicated that they don't take some of OT stories (such as A&E for example) literally, or that there is symbolism involved in the true meaning of the story. Origen would be a big one to look into.

 

[JBrian]

Have you ever really thought what God actually might look like? Do you have a personal view of God's image or have you never really thought about it. I'm writing a short magazine piece on the image of God and I'm interested in your views. For example do you have an image of God as a person guiding us in our lives or do you think of Him in another way?

God doesn't "look" like anything, because He is spirit. However, since Jesus also is fully man, He must have looked like an ordinary Jew.

 

[KCDAD]

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[teafortillerman]

Well. I was once told that God could take form in anything. Perhaps a turtle. I laughed, sputtered and walked away. But then I considered Zeus. He, (a God) took forms of many an animal. Naturally his intent was sinister and on the whole thing resulted in death, rape plunder; somewhat of a godly side-effect I feel proves better overlooked. Anywho, I believe God takes his form in whichever YOU think is appropiate. I've heard the human mind is quite powerful, the belief in a deity in the first place gives chance to picture what he/she(politically correct) would imagine on their own. You think it's a man, it's a man. Bull? Why not. Perhaps he/she could be an inanimate object such as a typewriter or pogo stick or what-have-you. Think about it.

 

[outlaw]

Pinky: “Well he had two eyes…oh!...and a mouth right beneath his nose.”



Brain: “How very descriptive”

 

[Telephone]

A short black man with a foul temper and grey beard.

Maybe!?

 

[Species8472]

How about God consists of everything...non-corporeal; therefore perfect in nature--as separate from nature, and the origin of nature. Indivisible. Check out Baruch Spinozas' The Ethic. He speaks of God having an infinite essence; as cannot be separated into parts or qualities; since all qualities being infinite in God--one cannot divide an infinite to have two infinites; as an infinite nature subscribes to mans' highest thought--that of God, and God alone. One infinite must outweigh another infinite--and this is the ridicule, you cannot have two infinite parts because only one infinite can exist.
If God is the All then I would expect Him to consist or at least be the determining factor of all things present, past and future--without measure.

 

[Gracchus]

... since all qualities being infinite in God ...

I deem that an unwarranted, and indeed, logically impossible assumption.