What does God look like?

[rojse]

Simple question - what does God look like, exactly?

 

[xexon]

And what humanly limited sensory organ will you be using to view with? x

 

[Guitar's Cry]

In a Venn diagram, God would be the circle around the individual; the relationship between the intrapersonal and the objective world.

God is neither within or without, but in between.

 

[Katzpur]

Simple question - what does God look like, exactly?

Exactly? I don't know exactly what He looks like, but the Bible says that we are created in His image, so I suspect He looks like a human being. It also says that Jesus Christ was "in the express image of His person," so I would imagine that those who knew Jesus during His mortal life could have given you a more detailed description than anyone living today could.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Simple question - what does God look like, exactly?

On the off chance that you're not being disingenuous, why would you consider that a simple question or, for that matter, a meaningful one?

 

[kadzbiz]

I was just thinking a similar thing today. I would have to say that if one follows the bible then God would have to be a male, hence the creation of Adam in His image. Now, what I'm wondering is why God would need to be male? Could He even have a gender? It's not like He's going to have a female partner, or did He have the virgin Mary in mind from the beginning?

 

[Sonic247]

Simple question - what does God look like, exactly?

No ones ever seen God in all his glory it would kill us, that's why Jesus came down so we could what God is like, and why Jesus said "now they have seen and hated both me and my father."

 

[Willamena]

Everything and nothing.

 

[Hema]

God cannot be seen with the eye but is that which causes the eye to see ~ Upanishads.

 

[Valjean]

The only biblical description that comes to mind of God's actual appearance is Moses' description of Him resembling a brush fire of some sort

 

[Truth_Faith13]

Exactly? I don't know exactly what He looks like, but the Bible says that we are created in His image, so I suspect He looks like a human being. It also says that Jesus Christ was "in the express image of His person," so I would imagine that those who knew Jesus during His mortal life could have given you a more detailed description than anyone living today could.

Sorry to go slightly off topic (only marginely) when the bible says God made us in his image - was it talking physically (our bodies) or spritually (souls) or both?

 

[xexon]

You are made out of the same Godstuff, spiritually speaking.

It is your thoughts which give it a form.

If you were to think it a physical image, you would also have to include the great apes, as they too have the same form as ourselves.


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[Katzpur]

I was just thinking a similar thing today. I would have to say that if one follows the bible then God would have to be a male, hence the creation of Adam in His image. Now, what I'm wondering is why God would need to be male? Could He even have a gender? It's not like He's going to have a female partner, or did He have the virgin Mary in mind from the beginning?

How many fathers do you know of who do not have a female partner? I believe He does have a female partner, an eternal female companion. Actually, I can't think of a single good reason why He wouldn't.

 

[Katzpur]

Sorry to go slightly off topic (only marginely) when the bible says God made us in his image - was it talking physically (our bodies) or spritually (souls) or both?

Both, although I'm inclined to think that we look more like Him than we act like him. We are alone among Christians in believing that God has a physical form.

 

[Sonic247]

How many fathers do you know of who do not have a female partner? I believe He does have a female partner, an eternal female companion. Actually, I can't think of a single good reason why He wouldn't.

I believe that would be polytheism, there is no other God but one, for us or anyone else.

 

[Katzpur]

I believe that would be polytheism, there is no other God but one, for us or anyone else.

Believe as you wish. Haven't we had this conversation before?

 

[Sonic247]

About polytheism? it must have been someone else. I don't think it's to far of base to assume if God had a wife it would be a female God, if not who is it?

 

[Katzpur]

About polytheism? it must have been someone else.

Sorry, I guess I was getting you mixed up with someone else.

I don't think it's to far of base to assume if God had a wife it would be a female God, if not who is it?

I think God's female counterpart could be called a Goddess, yes. But I'm not nearly as concerned with being labeled polytheistic as you might expect me to be. Ask any Muslim for his opinion and he'll tell you that all Christians are polythestic since they believe the Father is Son, the Son is God and the Holy Ghost is God. Adding, "But there is only one God," is actually quite laughable according to the Islamic way of viewing God. I'm just saying is that it's all a matter of semantics.

 

[Sonic247]

Water, Ice and steam. God is a spirit, he sent his spirit and his Spirit took on flesh, simple as that.

 

[Katzpur]

Water, Ice and steam. God is a spirit, he sent his spirit and his Spirit took on flesh, simple as that.

If I have a quart of water and freeze it, it becomes ice. If I boil it, it becomes steam. If it is steam or ice, it is not water. I can only have one of these things, in their entirety, at once. When God's spirit "took on flesh," as you say was the case, did He cease to exist as a spirit without flesh? When Jesus was a baby, who was in charge? When Jesus died (before He was resurrected), was the world without God for three days? Simple as that? Sorry, I must be really dense, but I don't see the Trinity as simple at all. I'd be the first to admit that no analogy is perfect, but this one fails on pretty much every account. I've heard the three-leaf clover one, too, by the way. One leaf of a clover isn't the whole clover, whereas the Father, Son and Holy Ghost are all fully God.