Or is that just Mythology and Folklore?
2006-09-23 03:12:31 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
This is why I've always liked the Roman pantheon. Very human gods who bickered and fought and fell in love, had influence over certain spheres but no omnipotence, and did most of their stuff for humans by way of offerings that essentially boil down to brokering deals. (The Romans were a practical people with no time to mess around, and their gods were the same way.) I tend towards most gods holding similar characteristics.
2006-09-23 03:16:43 · answer #1 · answered by angk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that God has "everything" and really cannot be adequately described by our limited understanding. The human characteristics that you mention is the anthropomorphizing of God--attributing human qualities on God. (My concept of God is big enough to handle this--but I realize that s/he is much, much more than that).
2006-09-23 10:16:28 · answer #2 · answered by kobacker59 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Does the daughter take after the mother, the father after the son, the great grandfather after the great grandson?
I recommend "Rediscovering the Kingdom" by Miles Munroe.
2006-09-23 10:35:42 · answer #3 · answered by DexterLoxley 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
According to the bible God is both man and woman. Does that mean that he's a hermaphrodite? ... I vote for folklore.
2006-09-23 10:17:16 · answer #4 · answered by *duh* 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
God does not have human characterstics.
"Though I manifest Myself in all things, I am identified with none of them".
According to the Hindu view, the Supreme Reality can be viewed from two aspects:
Transcendent Aspexct of God:
In the transcendent aspect, the Supreme Reality is called Nirguna Brahm, that is Brahm, without attributes. "Brahm is He whom speech cannot express, and from whom the mind is unable to reach Him, comes away baffled" states the Taittiriya Upanishad.
Nirguna Brahm is not an object of prayer, but of meditation and knowledge. It cannot be described, and the most one can say is that It is absolute existence, absolute knowledge, and absolute bliss (sat-chi-ananda). It is unborn, self-existent, all-pervading, and the essence of all things and beings in the universe. It is immeasurable, unapproachable, beyond conception, beyond birth, beyond reasoning, and beyond thought". God cannot be defined in terms of any specific manifestation, nor indeed in terms of their sum total. He is beyond all possibility of definition.
"I am never manifest to the unintelligent. For them I am covered by My eternal creative potency [yoga-maya]; and so the deluded world knows Me not, who am unborn and infallible"
"They fail to realize my true nature, which transcends birth and death. Few see through the veil of maya. The world, deluded, does not know that I am without birth and changeless. I know everything about the past, the present, and the future, Arjuna; but there is no one who knows me completely."
- Bhagvat Geeta.
2006-09-23 10:49:25 · answer #5 · answered by rian30 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The anthromorphic concept of a God is clung to by only a few fundamentalists.
2006-09-23 10:16:19 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think we try and give human attributes to everything we create, all ancient civilizations had anthropomorphous gods, and so it continues till today.
2006-09-23 16:27:29 · answer #7 · answered by S 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bible says we are created in His image
2006-09-23 10:25:00 · answer #8 · answered by phyllis_neel 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yhe bible says that we were created in His image.
2006-09-23 10:19:30 · answer #9 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
god created us in his image... uhm, we do have spirits, as is the lord. he doesn't have physical charachteristics.
2006-09-23 18:43:09 · answer #10 · answered by ipodlady231 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋