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ok, I am REALLY ignorant about other religions, but, do catholics belive God is a body-less mass, or that he looks like man. What do you believe God looks like, or do you think he has no shape. Please excuse my ignorance about other religions, hey, I am trying to understand, right?

2006-12-18 02:30:10 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

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Catholics believe God has a physical body in the spirit realm.

2006-12-18 02:33:49 · answer #1 · answered by badferret 3 · 0 3

I left Catholicism (and religion in general) as a teen, but I remember the images we were fed: 1) an old guy with a beard, in the clouds and 2) a very NON-Jewish-looking Jesus, with soulful eyes, looking pained (he usually had the crucifixion wounds, still suppurating! Ugh).

I think the more educated/thoughtful Catholics would tell you that no, they don't REALLY believe "God" is male (like angels, god has no sex). But the more orthodox ones would say, yes, He is a guy. How else could you call him a "Father" or a "Son" (Jesus)?!

As for the "Holy Spirit"....you're on your own! I never could get that concept...and nobody, not even the Jesuit priests, ever explained it to MY liking!

Why do you want to know...anyway? Just curious?

P.S.: As for this idea that it's a "sin" or "forbidden" to imagine "God the Father", I was in Catholic school for YEARS and never heard that! I think it's a MISCONCEPTION by Protestants!

2006-12-18 10:38:58 · answer #2 · answered by Gwynneth Of Olwen 6 · 0 0

First of all, we have no clue what God looks like. There is no teaching in the Church about His appearance. We only know what the second person of the Trinity looks like, well not exactly but we know He was fully human. To picture God or suppose we know what He looks like is blasphemy. Since God took flesh however, we can have some basic assumptions about the appearance of Jesus. Some mislead Catholics in the past have attempted to paint God. They did this by making Him look like Jesus only older to show He was the father. They did this because Jesus said that those who have seen Him have seen the Father. This is wrong to do however and the standard teaching of the Catholic Church is to never picture God the Father.

2006-12-18 10:35:11 · answer #3 · answered by jonathan x 3 · 2 1

The Bible tells us that God is a Spirit form . Genesis 1:1 "The Spirit of the Lord hovered."
The Son of God is ALL man and ALL God. John 1:1 "In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was God, and the Word is God."
From a Christan's POV

2006-12-18 10:40:21 · answer #4 · answered by Commander 6 · 1 1

It's my understanding that Catholicsd believe in teh Holy Trinty, that is to say 'God embodied' in three different guises. God the creator, father and heavenly presence. Jesus Christ, the son of God and the earthly manifestation of God as human. The Holy Spirit a breath of God in all of us.

That said, when CAtholics talk about God they always always always use He.... therefore i can assuems that Cathloics (of whom I am supposed to be one - but it really doesn't suit) believe God to be man.

I'm sure loads of people will put me right now though!

2006-12-18 10:36:10 · answer #5 · answered by Searching 2 · 2 1

We were created in God's own likeness; therefore, God looks like a man.

2006-12-18 10:34:40 · answer #6 · answered by chhackett3 2 · 0 1

Man is made in God's image so if you were to see Him He looks like a man.

2006-12-18 10:37:28 · answer #7 · answered by PRS 6 · 0 1

God looks like humans because we made in His image

God Bless You

2006-12-18 10:32:49 · answer #8 · answered by ? 6 · 1 1

I was raised Catholic, and we believed that God was a man.

2006-12-18 10:32:47 · answer #9 · answered by ramman 4 · 1 1

Catholics don't have to concern themselves with such thoughts. They have a celibate priesthood hierarchy to do all their thinking for them.

2006-12-18 10:44:31 · answer #10 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0 0

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