Most Christians do not picture God as human?

Question

This is accoring to a survey question I posed a few days ago.
So how come they think that he has human characteristics such as the ability to judge, the ability to "taketh away", the ability to hear and see us, and the ability to talk to us?

Answer 1

Its beyond your comprehension which we all know by your consistent scoffing of religious beliefs that you are not a creditable person that want genuine answers but only distribute mockery and want those who do mock agree with your asinine question. May God have mercy on you!

Answer 2

That's because He created humans in His image, but honey everyone knows, and not just christians, that God is a spirit, and He created us so we can experience things for him, we live for Him that created us. So you see all that is good is from Him he has a lot more abilities than you listed some you cannot fathom, you didn't think you knew all there is to know about God did you.

So you are right in saying we do not picture him as a mere human, I don't know what you find so fascinating about that. Did you really think we would.

Answer 3

God sent His Son Jesus Christ to earth to live amongst
the people. Most children are of the same characteristics
as their father (bears look like bears; monkeys look like
monkeys, etc.) Jesus lived on this earth 33 years healing
diseases, and getting desciples ready to teach the
people how to live correctly. Like today, people were not
convinced He was God and He was good, so they hung
Him on a wooden cross until he died. Then he was put
in a cave, but in 3 days He arose from the dead and went
back to heaven to live forever with His Father. He left us
with His Word (the Bible) and with the Holy Spirit which
indwells Christians.

Answer 4

If you believe in a personified god, it's possible to believe that he shares some human characteristics, yet is not actually human, just as we share the ability to walk with cats, dogs, ants, cows, etc.

Answer 5

I suppose we choose to view him this way - and not as a human being - is because he is a greater spirit who created our lives, our surroundings, everything we know and breathe. For such and amazing power, to view God as merely human wouldn't seem right.

Although I'm not sure what I believe I used to go to church when I was younger, and this is just how I see it, or used to rather.

Answer 6

you're complicated God with Jesus. Jesus walked the earth as a guy. God has no photograph neither is permitted to have a picture because of the fact the bible states. God is everywhere. Jesus did the poem of strolling interior the sand and sporting the guy...the clarification for under a million set of foot prints

Answer 7

All language is metaphor and analogy, even words that are used "literally."
When we talk about God in human terms, that is called "anthropomorphism," when we talk about God in terms of emotions, that is "anthropopathism," and the big names for simple ideas goes on and on.
If we thought of God in literal terms according to what we find in the Bible, then we would have a God with wings and fins, in addition to feet, hands, ears, arms, etc.
John 4:24
"God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

But we do know that God communicates with people. For example, Adam and Eve:
Genesis 3:8-9
They heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden. [9] Then the Lord God called to the man, and said to him, "Where are you?"

Answer 8

human characteristics? they were Gods characteristics b4 they were human and since you used the word ability?
HES GOD
God has the Ability to do whatever he wants

Answer 9

I agree with the results of your survey, but I'm wondering why you consider these characteristics to be human? God is the all knowing, all powerful, creator of the heavens and earth and everything between.

Answer 10

Because it's a human trait to anthropomorphize things. Every other religion has humanistic gods. Suddenly a religion sprouts up with an invisible god that no one has every seen. How else can you thing of God? A cloud with rays of light emanating from behind it? Actually, that's my favorite, but it's as far off as everyone else's ideas.