Does God really have or represent a race?

Question

A vision in Revelations says that God has bronze skin and hair as white as wool or something like that. Do you think the people of Israel are the kind of race God represents? Because His skin color is brownish. Or is He just like neutral between all races. Wasn't adam, the first person, made somewhere in the area of Israel, or some country around there. I think he was brownish too. Maybe God has no color...

Answer 1

Revelations 7:9 After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no one could count, from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, and palm branches were in their hands: 10 and they cry out with a loud voice, saying, "Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.". Before this, it is written Revelations 7:4 the 144,000 thousand of the tribes of Israel.

God is Savior to all nations.

Answer 2

Well I take the Catholic tradition of a Trinitarian look on God. Basically I think when Jesus lived on earth, He was probibly brownish, or looking very much like a poor Jew in the Israeli area of 2000 years ago. So Jesus definately looks a certain race, but then again he has appeared over the centuries to numerious saints in sometimes different ways. One example is St.Fasutina of Poland, wherein Jesus appeared in the form of a white male. The other persons of God, God the Father and God the Holy Spirit, remain to be seen or described by people. Those identities of God are for the people whom have the Heavenly vision. Though I know that in the Bible, Jesus says the person who has seen Him has seen the Father, I feel this is making a reference to the savlation and love God gives has been recieve by those who have contact with Jesus, not the look of skin, etc... I also think God the Father and God the Holy Sprit don't have skin, but God must definately look something like us, since we are in His image. He does represent a race, as must has He is the maker of races and vast uniquenesses we posses.

Answer 3

I believe in the concept of trinity. If you mean God the father, then, He doesn't have a race because He never came to earth or transformed himself to human. But if you mean, Jesus, then its possible to say that He did have a race because His father and mother were both Isralites. But remember that the bible said He was born out of immaculate conception. It so happened that the Isralites were the favored ones (before) so Jesus was born through Mary.
In the present, we refer to a person as an american if he/she has american parents. But in if you trace back the meaning of "race", then its not fair to say that "God" is Isralite or something. In the first place, there is no such thing as "race". The term was only invented to serve personal interests of some people (e.g Hitler and genocide; the emergence of ku klux klan)
Another thing, nobody has lived that long for them to say that adam was born somewhere in the area of Israel. Skin color is not a basis for race... It is only a by-product of environment.
God' image in Revelation is only a representation but its not God's real image. Nobody has seen Him face to face. It was only mirage...

Answer 4

God is a spirit.When John wrote Revelations he was seeing symbols of spiritual things.God has no color and loves the HUMAN race. When he came as a man to earth,he was probably brown skinned so he would fit in with the people around him and wouldn't stand out because of his looks.

Answer 5

Consider the source of Revelations. A man wrote it. Man creates an image of God in his own image. If horses pray to a god, rest assure they pray to a God that looks like a horse.

What's that you say? The Bible and everything in it is the word of God? But God used men to write it and man, by nature, is not perfect therefore it is impossible that the entire bi bile is 100% the word of God. Especially when you think of the thousands of years where the stories of the bible were passed on by the spoken word and then the thousands of different translations and re-writes by hand.

Answer 6

God is not a being with human features.

God is a genderless energy souce, the source creator of all life.

God is within each of us and each soul is a perfect individuation of God. God is the air, the earth, the vegetation, the animals, the insects, and the inanimate, every single aspect of life around you.

God can take any form God wishes, including human, but we could never fully appreciate the magnitude that is God.

Answer 7

The God of the monotheistic religions is an abstract being - no race, no face, no body. The trouble with people trying to describe God is that we have to try and relate something infinite and incomprehensible to something we can understand...I don't think St. John of Patmos, the guy who wrote Revelation, was any different.I think he was just trying to describe the indescribable, so he fell back on what he knew.

Answer 8

Biblically speaking, all the people now on the earth are descendants of Noah, his three sons, and their wives. Therefore it would be logical to assume that God represents all the races and peoples now present. Maybe the true race of mankind is merely a mixture of all people, and individual races are an aberration.

Answer 9

I shouldn't think so. As a god, he doesn't necessarily HAVE to have a fixed shape at all, much less a race. Everyone has a personal image of what god looks like. The version of God described in the bible was probably just their interpretation of what they saw

Answer 10

The vision which you are referring to in Revelations is the GLORIFIED Jesus in heaven. His appearance in heaven is not the exact same as it was here on earth because He's exulted and seated at the right hand of the Father. He's GLORIFIED, which means that God's glory surrounds Him.