Christians: The concept of God...?

Question

Do you believe the concept of God having human features, emotions, desires, and even gender is true? Or is it the result of people trying to relate or "put God into terms we can understand"?

PLEASE don't bother answering this question if you are going to insult, preach, ignore the question, or don't have anything intelligent to say.

Answer 1

I don't understand how an omniscient god could have features, emotions, desires, or gender. God is everything and thus is nothing. When we think about God, we have to think about him in terms of something we can understand, though. It is too much to truly think of infinite.

Answer 2

I believe God is mainfested in three individuals. At the least, Jesus Christ has human features and a sex. Do God, the Father, and the Holy Spirit manifest in the same way? I am not sure. God the Father walked past Moses, so it seems to suggest He has a physical form. The Holy Spirit is not described as having a physical form. Basically, I do not know at this time if one or more members of the Trinity has a physical form all the time, if any of the time, except for Jesus Christ.

God definitely has emotions and desires. They are often the same as ours but not always. Ours tend to be corrupted sometimes. For example, where God would desire justice, we might desire revenge; where God might desire forgiveness, we desire war. Our emotions were originally in line with God's but we have become used to feeling all the stuff we should not be feeling or we feel the wrong stuff at the wrong time.

It is not people who put God into terms we can understand. Rather it is God Himself (He?) who presents Himself often in terms we can understand. Certainly, in the Old Testament, when God describes Himself as jealous, He is framing Himself in terrifying and also simple terms for an ancient people who were naive, uneducated and barbaric. He was not really jealous.

You asked a very good question.

Answer 3

Certainly the idea of "God" as some really big human is a result of our need to find terms for the divine we can relate to.

Remember the Hindu pantheon, in which the most high god is without form, and worshiped on only one day a year. All of the other manifestations are understood to be forms of the ultimate, forms with we can have the sense of relationship that gives our spirituality a sense of passion.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

I would have to say that it is us, humans, who put features, desires and gender to God. Just look at thr Romans and Greeks. Two huge societies that spread throughout the known world, the images and beliefs of their Gods and Goddesses. Is it no wonder that we would attempt to do the same with God?

Until this question i didn't think much on it. God is so far above us in all things that there is no way our minds can grasp Him and all His Himness. Our problem is that we constrain Him to our thoughts, feelings and problems. We lack trust in Him and try to do everything for ourselves. WRONG. We screw everything up.

Answer 6

God, in my opinion is the power or force behind nature and everything that happens in the universe. I do not believe that God has human form or human intelligence. This power has more of a universal intelligence that is probably not cognitive. I am sure that many would disagree violently with these ideas but they are what I believe.

Answer 7

In the Bible, Moses was warned not to look upon the face of god or he would go mad.

I'm basically christian and I tend not to think that a god capable of inventing the whole flipping universe has human form and certainly not human emotion, desires or gender. But he would certainly be capable of taking on any form and expressing himself in a way humans could understand.

Does god only live in one dimension? Does god experience time in a liner way as we do? I tend to think not, I think god is alot bigger and alot more powerful that the bearded magician that my more simple minded christian fellows insist on.

Answer 8

I believe that people have some need to create God in their own human image. They have been doing it for millenia. And as long as we understand that God is not limited by those images or ways of understanding, we are OK. It is when people give human attributes to God that make God into a Gestapo or a Santa Clause (making a list and checking it twice) that we run into difficulty.

In times of distress, I picture God as a loving parent and me as a child finding refuge in God's arms and on God's lap. At other times I am more aware of the infinite and intangible nature of God.

People need to find different ways to relate at different stages of their lives.

Answer 9

I believe that people do put some characteristics to God as a way to relate. However, in some cases God does have certain features that can be similar to man (eg. love) but the extent of these features, man cannot compare.

Answer 10

If you believe Jesus was God, then of course God has human features, emotions, desires, etc. How can one be Christian without believing that God was a human?
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