Where do Xians get their image of Satan and God from?

Question

The anthropomorphoc image that is.
Cloven hooves, hornes...red skin.
The old man in white with a long beard.

ifit is from the "scripture" show me the verses that mention the cloven hooves or white beard.

Personally I thinky ou are taking too many liberties

Why thank you Mr. Baal
Your horns are rather smashing as well.

Answer 1

The image of The Devil is based on a hodge-podge of images associated with the dominant gods in religions that Christianity was attempting to replace...Pan of the Greeks, the Horned God of the Celts (both have horns, cloven hooves and a tail...) and possibly the sacred cows of India. The red skin was symbolic of the flushed complexion of passion, killing and raping are big no-no's after all... The tail of Satan was originally a snake, since many pagans held them as sacred messengers/assassins of the gods...The bat wings I think because bats are associated with darkness. The empires of the west wanted to make sure the people they conquered would properly understand (with torture and execution, if necessary,) the "fact" that these other gods were merely the many deceptive masks of Satan.

God is the ultimate father figure, the "Uber-Vader"... Grandaddy's always white haired, and in the old days old men liked to grow long beards as a sign of affluence, (if you're poor then its hard to keep it free of dirt and it loses the impact of the pure white beard.) White robes symbolize his purity and authority. One need only look at a portrait of Zeus to see the inspiration for the christian God's image...

What handsome horns you have...

Answer 2

Both Satan and God are spirits. So no exact accurate picture can be created of them.

God also does not approve of making an image to worship as a god, whether it's him or any other.

The image of Satan with red skin, hooves, pitchfork etc is a product of the minds of medieval artists who were influenced by representations of the mythological Greek god Pan and by the Inferno written by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri.

God created a perfect angel, who chose to become Satan which means Resister. But since this angel was created by God, he must be beautiful in appearance. Though his personality is evil.

Visions of God were given to his prophets. He is portrayed as Ancient, with white hair and white clothes. He is also described in colors.
These visions portray his awesome majesty, great dignity. Also serenity, order, beauty, and pleasentness.

Eze 1:26-28;Dan 7:9;Re 4:1-3;Ex 24:9-11.

Answer 3

Hail Satan

Answer 4

I don't know about Xians but Christians get their conceptions from scriptural descriptions filtered through the work of various early artists.

Answer 5

satan is a pretty boy so no clue where the pitchfork and hooves came from...."you were created and adorned with every precious jewel...."

God does look like the rendition on the simpsons...white get up with long white beard..i had lunch with him last week and he told me where to park so i knew it was God.

Answer 6

Artists' interpretations of the descriptions in the scripture.

Answer 7

google images

Answer 8

"The fall of Creation is something that passed you by?" And God created such an easily corruptible Creation... why again?

Answer 9

I believe that after centuries of solid research.... reading the bible and confering with multiple sources.... They pull it out of their @sses!

Answer 10

From the movie spawn! do you need to ask?