Most other religions don't think he looks human. This thought got me thinking further. Would civilisations on other planets (assuming they exist) also invent gods and would they imagine him (them) to look like them too? Interested in your ideas.
2006-07-11 20:52:17 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When the Bible says God made man in his image, it means the inner person not the physical manifestation. Unfortunately some people would rather bring God down to their level rather than try to practice Godly qualities of love, justice, kindness, self-control, goodness, etc.
2006-07-11 21:03:55 · answer #1 · answered by Sparkle1 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Their version of god looks like a human because the god of the OT was one. Read up on the Anannaki. They were individuals in that area mining gold. The Sumerian tablets have the basic garden of eden story that the early bible writers plagiarized and changed to meet their needs. It's not the 'truth' of the divine in the least.
2006-07-12 03:31:07 · answer #2 · answered by American Spirit 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A few reasons. One, only Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe in One God. Two, God stated in the Bible that He created man in His own image. Three, as a Christian, I believe He allowed Himself to be born as a man.
2006-07-11 20:58:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they haven't studied their bibles enough to find out what He really looks like. God is Spirit and to know him is to seek Him in the spirit. People have a hard time believing in what they cannot see, so they make up something to help them believe. Like crosses, for example. They can't picture what it would be like to actually see Jesus on the cross, so they make crosses that have a man on it and visualize it that way. But if they were to actually do it right, they would have a man soaked in blood, dripping blood down to the ground, on that cross and not a prize winning statue that is pretty to look at. They don't want to see the real thing in my opinion.
2006-07-11 20:59:42 · answer #4 · answered by sweetthunda 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is the trinity made up in three parts, God the father is the almighty power of the three. I imagine him to be Heaven itself. God the son is the human form. God the holy spirit, is the spirit form But that is not biblical. That is ,my own personal op ion.
2006-07-11 21:08:33 · answer #5 · answered by lovely soul with insite 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hinduism usually portrays brahma (its main god) as a human.
and there are many central african animist faiths which also have broadly anthopomorphic gods.
judaism and islam on the other hand believe that god has no corporeal form (and therefore does not look like a human, in fact does not look like anything).
i don't think you will find an answer to your question until you can be clearer what you mean.
2006-07-11 20:57:21 · answer #6 · answered by synopsis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rev Kip - The moon God, WTF? and also you're a religious chief? Explains lots about the frame of mind of quite some Christians obtainable... *Shakes Head* Do you no longer understand that Muslims (and many Jews) hint the origins of Islam decrease back to the first baby of Abraham, who God also stated may the be the daddy of an truly good human beings? So do you carry it adverse to Jesus that his mum and dad weren't christian? considering Mohammed depending the religion, for sure he became born right into a distinct one. and those loopy reference you made about the pagan daughters he allegedly worshiped, you pick to benefit somewhat better. Mohommed actual denouced all scripture concerning them as "The Satanic Verses" and stated such beliefs had no position in a monotheistic relgion. anyhow, on to answering the question. keep in suggestions, I communicate of the wider Christian frame of mind, and under no circumstances the genuinely faith itself which preaches tolerance of others... Christianity hasn't ever loved different religions. to contain Judaism. absolutely everyone bear in mind the Inquisition? Or the undeniable reality that Pope John Paul II admitted that the church bore some duty for the holocaust because of it is intolerence of Jews? Ever heard the age previous tale that we use the blood of a christian innocuous to make our passover matzah? Christians pick to piggy decrease go into reverse of our faith so that they have got a love hate relationship with us, yet everyday can't denounce us because they did borrow our God and under no circumstances any incorrect way round. The instantly out hate for Muslims comes from the undeniable reality that even as Jews purely pick to get with this methodology, Islam became formed after the demise and hoopla of Jesus. we do not pick to grandfather clause him in, yet they outright rejected him. Oh, that and Christians look an intollerant lot because it truly is (a lot to Jesus's chagrin, i'm positive).
2016-12-01 03:05:38 · answer #7 · answered by ganiban 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, Muslims are forbidden to guess what God/Allah (SWT) looks like, it is against our religion because no one has ever seen Him, we can't even say what the angels look like, yet we know they exist, usually in movies about Islam, God and Angels are shown as a bright white light; when anything about the Prophet is mentioned, we say the Prophet (PBUH) said...
2006-07-11 20:59:18 · answer #8 · answered by Wala 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gods humanity is a way for man to relate to and therefore become like god. religion is the quest for imoortatliy and if man has the chance to becoem like god, since god is a man shaped being, then man has a chance at immortality. also man needs the feelings of perfection to feel whole as that fact remains people tend to try find perfection in thefact that perfection, which is the embodiement of god, is attainable, since we were built in his image.
2006-07-11 20:56:50 · answer #9 · answered by Mike is me 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because he said he made Man in his own Image
He looks like every man on the Earth every race
2006-07-11 20:54:28 · answer #10 · answered by snuggels102 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋