Do the majority of Christians envision God in human form or as a non-physical entity?

Answer 1

A while ago, I had found some brilliant statistics about that (which is much more useful than merely counting the number of people who call themselves Christian) but I can't find them now. I have to improve my Googling skills...

The best I can get is this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/wat/archive/wat060198.htm

Which says that 90% of Americans 'believe in a Personal God' compared to 20% of Danes and Swedes. But I can't believe this, because that implies that _every single American_ who believes in God at all believes in a 'personal God'.

I would bet that it depends on the country, however. Despite what so many people here say, Europe is still by and large nominally Christian. But I would guess that a majority of Europeans, CIS citizens, Australians, New Zealanders and Africans do not believe in the 'Big man on a cloud', whereas in the USA, Latin America and Africa (among Christians) I would guess that belief in the book-writing God is still in the majority.

Answer 2

God the Father is always spirit, He has never taken physical form. When we see in the Old Testament any reference to God being on the earth or doing something a physical being would do (Gen.3:8) it is the pre-incarnate Christ.

Answer 3

I envision God as a spiritual being, but then I also look at all other people and try to see God in them so I guess I do both.

Answer 4

God is spirit. A non-physical entity. He will never be brought down to the level of the created. The created is to go to Him.

Answer 5

My guess is that the knee-jerk thought would be that God is in human form (that way we can more easily relate). But, after the knee-jerk, most would realize how foolish that sounded.

However, there are always those that get hung up on that old "Made in his image" thing.

Answer 6

he is always pictured as a man for children but I am sure mature Christians would never see him in a visual form

Answer 7

No one knows