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What does God look like to you?

Astravalon

Astravalon

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To me, He looks like Lord Krishna / Vishnu:

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Bollywood actor Sachin nailed it in Gopaal Krishna (1979), imo:

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Spiderman

Spiderman

Veteran Member
Tumah said:
I notice this is not in the joke thread. So I'm just wondering if you're aware that she would have been Middle Eastern and not Caucasian.
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So, are you saying Mary wasn't a girl from Kansas that wandered through cornfields and spoke with tin men and scarecrows?

And Jesus wasn't a blue-eyed, blonde, and whiter version of Jimmy Stewart?

I'm not Christian anymore :(
 
9-10ths_Penguin

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
Sultan Of Swing said:
Christianity requires a lot of self-denial, and submitting to biblical truths a believer initially may not like or want to believe, do you really think this applies to all believers?
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I think it applies to the vast majority of believers. I've yet to meet a believer whose god disagreed with them to any serious degree.

I'm also not sure of the extent of the self-denial you describe. I think it's more often about impulse control (i.e. prioritizing one's "long term" self over immediate desires) than it is about actual self-denial.

IMO, the vast majority of the time, a person's god is an anthropomorphism of the best (by their own estimation) aspects of themselves.
 
Sultan Of Swing

Sultan Of Swing

Well-Known Member
9-10ths_Penguin said:
I think it applies to the vast majority of believers. I've yet to meet a believer whose god disagreed with them to any serious degree.

I'm also not sure of the extent of the self-denial you describe. I think it's more often about impulse control (i.e. prioritizing one's "long term" self over immediate desires) than it is about actual self-denial.

IMO, the vast majority of the time, a person's god is an anthropomorphism of the best (by their own estimation) aspects of themselves.
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I couldn't say God 'disagreed' on anything with me, because I submit to His word as truth. Are there truths in the Bible I found difficult to accept, or tried to avoid? Of course, but I believed them and came to see the beauty in them. In fact you could look at my posts from years ago as proof, there's one point where I proclaim homosexuality must be okay if it's not a choice, as if that's some great groundbreaking logic, when really it's just what I wanted to believe. Eventually though I could not avoid the clear teaching of Scripture. I'm sure it is similar for many believers, in fact I am certain it is so from the friends I have at church who have gone through similar things with teachings they didn't want to accept or found difficult in doing so.
 
9-10ths_Penguin

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
Sultan Of Swing said:
I couldn't say God 'disagreed' on anything with me, because I submit to His word as truth. Are there truths in the Bible I found difficult to accept, or tried to avoid? Of course, but I believed them and came to see the beauty in them. In fact you could look at my posts from years ago as proof, there's one point where I proclaim homosexuality must be okay if it's not a choice, as if that's some great groundbreaking logic, when really it's just what I wanted to believe. Eventually though I could not avoid the clear teaching of Scripture.
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Scripture... like Romans 14:4?

I'm sure it is similar for many believers, in fact I am certain it is so from the friends I have at church who have gone through similar things with teachings they didn't want to accept or found difficult in doing so.
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Frankly, I think the Bible is so ambiguous, contradictory, and supportive of multiple interpretations that anyone can use it to support virtually any position. I've heard it described as "the Big Book of Multiple Choice", and I think the term fits.

Your particular denomination may have its own official interpretation of scripture, but this is more about your denomination than it is about the scriptures, IMO.
 
Spiderman

Spiderman

Veteran Member
9-10ths_Penguin said:
I think it applies to the vast majority of believers. I've yet to meet a believer whose god disagreed with them to any serious degree.

I'm also not sure of the extent of the self-denial you describe. I think it's more often about impulse control (i.e. prioritizing one's "long term" self over immediate desires) than it is about actual self-denial.

IMO, the vast majority of the time, a person's god is an anthropomorphism of the best (by their own estimation) aspects of themselves.
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You've never met a believer whose God disagrees with Him? Well nice to meet you. I excessively meet that description.

It is hard for me to go a day without telling God how disgusted I am with His actions, his attitude, His word, and what He fails to do.

I don't agree with God, the Pope, or the Church on many, probably most things. That doesn't mean I'm not mistaken.
 
Astravalon

Astravalon

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As an aside, for what it's worth (and I know this is random), due
to having revisited my collection of Krishna images to share
here, it seems to have reignited my love for the Lord into a
more active state. This is refreshing, given that I had been
feeling somewhat 'agnosticated' for awhile now.
So I thank you, PopeADope, for starting this thread. :)


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Spiderman

Spiderman

Veteran Member
Iridescence said:
As an aside, for what it's worth (and I know this is random), due
to having revisited my collection of Krishna images to share
here, it seems to have reignited my love for the Lord into a
more active state. This is refreshing, given that I had been
feeling somewhat 'agnosticated' for awhile now.
So I thank you, PopeADope, for starting this thread. :)


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Aw...I'm so glad I could help! :)
 
MrMrdevincamus

MrMrdevincamus

Voice Of The Martyrs Supporter
As a Christian and somewhat apostate reverend, I feel God has no physical form. This is why IMO God or GID (God the intelligent designer) usually sends a messenger of various ranks like an disembodied voice coming from a burning bush, an angel, or even a special envoy such as Jesus Christ to act as an ambassador and sometimes 'conduit' from the spiritual world to the material world/universe. There is circumstantial biblical evidence that Gods realm and mans realm ie the tangible/physical universe are not compatible, at least in this eon or era. And I don't mean oil and water incompatible, no, the two realms are more like like matter and anti-matter. I feel the reasons for this are nearly obvious but are beyond the scope of this topic. So, I beleive its safe to say Gods world and attributes are simply diametrically opposed in many ways. A couple more Examples are God is eternal, man is woefully mortal, God so dislikes sin he* can not tolerate its presence, while man fully enjoys sin. Considering the above it does not surprise me that God has no physical form or he has a form that is harmful if viewed by physical being. I visualize that God looks like a thought or looks like love. Both are real but intangible and I like to think that love is eternal and the original condition of the universe ~

* Referring to God as 'he' ;.......I am not being gender specific when referring to God in the Male vernacular. It is simply a grammatical scapegoat for saying I am not sure if God is male. female or other.

God bless this forum and I pray for peace on earth. God be with you ~
 
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