What does God look like?

[Sahar]

No one has seen God and no-one knows how He looks like. But the solid fact is that there is nothing like Him, so any image for God that any-one might draw won't be His.
Trying to know how He looks like is a waste of time, instead, we need to try to know and taste His beautiful attributes; His kindness, His mercy, His wisdom..etc. which are needed to have a relation with Him.

 

[lizskid]

**** Mod Post****

While the topic of this thread is a bit abstract for us
all, it was begun in earnest, and it would be
appreciated if the responses were also in earnest,
rather than falling to humor and detracting from
the originial purpose of the thread.

Thanks!​

 

[Truth_Faith13]

**** Mod Post****​

While the topic of this thread is a bit abstract for us
all, it was begun in earnest, and it would be
appreciated if the responses were also in earnest,
rather than falling to humor and detracting from
the originial purpose of the thread.​

Thanks!​

I think we have all generally come to the conclusion that we cannot know what God looks like. Normally I agree with the mod posts but I havent seen any humour which stepped over the line though?

 

[Christian20]

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.

No that is not true.
God created Adam and Eve, so that they can reproduce.
So that there will be more mankind. That's why hd created a male and a female.

 

[Katzpur]

No that is not true.
God created Adam and Eve, so that they can reproduce.
So that there will be more mankind. That's why hd created a male and a female.

Of course, God created Adam and Eve male and female in order that they could reproduce. What on earth does that even have to do with my comment?

 

[Revoltingest]

He's the tall one with a full five digits per hand in this picture.

 

[Christian20]

Of course, God created Adam and Eve male and female in order that they could reproduce. What on earth does that even have to do with my comment?

Well because you said that he probably has a female too because he created a male and female.
But he created them for a purpose he doesn't need a purpose he is god, so no he does not have a female.

 

[Dr. Strange]

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.

God's image refers to the Spirit. No man knows God.

"God is spirit, without bodily dimensions. Firstly, no body can cause change without itself being changed. Secondly, things with dimensions are potential of division. But the starting-point for all existence must be wholly real and not potential in any way: though things that get realized begin as potential, prededing them is the source of their realization which make it a body (for then everything with dimensions would be living), but something more excellent like a soul. The most excellent existent of all then cannot be a body. So when the scriptures ascribe dimensions to God they are using spatial extension to symbolize the extent of God's power; just as they ascribe bodily organs to God as metaphors for their functions, and postures like sitting or standing to symbolize authority or strength." St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, A Concise Translation by Timothy McDermott, p. 14.

 

[Dr. Strange]

E=MC2 is how the world was created, with energy. If you are to say god created existence, he had to have been created...and so on and so forth rendering it a never ending cycle, god cannot to just appear out of nothingness.

Actually, science is now saying that it is mathematically possible to create something out of nothing. I need to look up this idea so I can document this statement.

 

[Faybull]

Well, if science has concluded that no thing exists, we are in more trouble than I had previously calculated...being that to exist pretty much negates the idea of no thing.


Where exactly does it state in the Bible, that God appeared out of nothingness?

 

[Nada]

Simple question - what does God look like, exactly?

He is a spirt form.We will never know what He looks like.

 

[Faybull]

Well, if science has concluded that no thing exists, we are in more trouble than I had previously calculated...being that to exist pretty much negates the idea of no thing.


Where exactly does it state in the Bible, that God appeared out of nothingness?

At any rate, I see that I asked the wrong question.
Better to ask:
Which "God" concept are we using here? Silly me, I assumed you meant the biblical God.

 

[outhouse]

He factually looks like the ink used to create him.

I wish you luck in your hunt for more evidence, there is a picture drawn of Yahweh 800BC.

He is a male warrior with his wife Asherah.

But that is also ink, not evidence.

 

[Katzpur]

God's image refers to the Spirit. No man knows God.

"God is spirit, without bodily dimensions.

"God is spirit" = biblical; "without bodily dimensions" = non-biblical

 

[Katzpur]

Well because you said that he probably has a female too because he created a male and female.

Huh? I believe that God has a female counterpart, and that we have "a Mother in Heaven" just as we have a "Father in Heaven." You clearly misunderstood what I said, because I didn't say that "he probably has a female too because he created a male and female." That doesn't make an ounce of sense.

But he created them for a purpose he doesn't need a purpose he is god, so no he does not have a female.

I'm really sorry, Christian, but I just don't know what on earth you're trying to get at. "He doesn't need a purpose he is god, so no ho does not have a female"? Maybe it's partly your punctuation that's making you hard to follow.

 

[Katzpur]

He is a spirt form.We will never know what He looks like.

So when Matthew 5:8 says that the pure in heart will see God, we really can't take it at face value. It doesn't really mean what we'd like to think is means. Hmmm.

 

[Pegg]

I have to disagree with you there Katzpur, i think it is very biblical that God does not have any physical form or dimensions. Moses warned the people of this very fact, that they should never try to create anything as a representation of God because they never saw any form when he spoke to them:

Deuteronomy 4:12 And Jehovah began to speak to YOU out of the middle of the fire.+ The sound of words was what YOU were hearing, but no form+ were YOU seeing—nothing but a voice....15 “And YOU must take good care of YOUR souls,+ because YOU did not see any form+ on the day ofJehovah’s speaking to YOU in Ho′reb out of the middle of the fire, 16 that YOU may not act ruinously+and may not really make for yourselves a carved image, the form of any symbol, the representationof male or female,+ 17 the representation of any beast that is in the earth,+ the representation of any winged bird that flies in the heavens,+ 18 the representation of anything moving on the ground, the representation of any fish+ that is in the waters under the earth; 19 and that you may not raise your eyes to the heavens and indeed see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of the heavens, and actually get seduced and bow down to them and serve them,*+ which Jehovah your God has apportioned to all the peoples under the whole heavens.+

This would have been the perfect opportunity for God to reveal himself by his 'physical' appearance, yet he had no physical appearance, nor did he want his people to ever try and give him a physical appearance.

 

[Dr. Strange]

Katz, you know what Pope John-Paul II said about atheism: "The problem with atheism isn't disbelief, but wrong belief." I suspect Haydaman is secretly trying to prove him right.

Atheist and Christians ask the same questions.

 

[Faybull]

So when Matthew 5:8 says that the pure in heart will see God, we really can't take it at face value. It doesn't really mean what we'd like to think is means. Hmmm.

Or..."Blessed are those pure in heart, for God will behold them."

 

[Dr. Strange]

Or..."Blessed are those pure in heart, for God will behold them."

"Pure of heart" is about those that see God, serve God for God's sake not their own self-interest.