Do you perceive God as a 6ft tall bearded old male, stern face, big club-scepter upraised? or ?

Question

The higher, bigger, more real vision -perception -discernment of God you have, the more Godly you try to imitate His perfect nature in treating other humans? If you see "god" as a moody, vengeful savage; do you tend to act the same way to other humans?

"Like father, like son."

Is it really true still today that "no man has seen God" ? If you can not literally now see God with your physical eyes, can you actually Spirit discern Him in your mind and perceive Him in you ? -- as you a Spirit of God-led living soul here ?

If God is the Infinite Eternal Universal Holy Luminosity (Spirit Light) of endless love and care, and thus having no outside and no beyond, how can that be realized without the false concepts of mere pantheism, panentheism, panthelism, etc entering ?

Please share your view of God and Who or what He/She/They are to you in your personal God-conscious experiences.

Thank you.

Answer 1

The best image we can have of God is Jesus. Though religious art usually portrays him as European, we was racially Semitic. Relying on the prophesy of Isaiah 53:

2 He grew up before him like a tender shoot,
and like a root out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.

3 He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering.
Like one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

4 Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.

When Jesus rose from the dead, he showed us his resurrected body. He was still recognizably Jesus, but he was healed of his injuries. That's what he will look like in heaven.

Cheers,
Bruce

Answer 2

I've been thinking about it not too long ago, didn't really try to put it actual words though.

It might be that, the only difference between an atheist and me is that atheists deny the word God itself and exclude it from their vocabulary. I seriously doubt existence of soul as carrier of someones identity, and reincarnation, so that affects how I see God. I also don't think that there's God who passionately cares about human race or stars or anything at all. He's not caring or uncaring, he's neither.

Sometimes I substitute God for Universe. Not a universe in astronomical sense but more spiritual.

Moving on, I see God as this live intelligent Universe. Like something that bonds all the matter together. Something you get to reunite with when you die, like an ice cube in a drink. I think once we die we get to be more God. Also I think there are people who are more God, closer to the real Universe (reality?) while they're alive.

Rather then saying God I just say real Universe. As of now we have 5 senses, there are fishes that can sense electromagnetism, bats have echolocation and some creatures see in infrared. We'll never know how electromagnetism FEELS. So this piece of reality is unavailable to us now, we unaware of of it. But once we're dead we'll get to experience Universe not with 5 senses but with 500 or 1000 or some infinite number, like everything that ever happened or will ever happen. So for me God is real reality, the origins, ultimate form of existence, state when you transcend time and space. I think those origins is what gives the astronomical universe capacity to crate matter and complex systems, and humans, and our thoughts and deeds. Perhaps, ultimately there's even no difference between existence and non-existence, or good or evil.

But I really don't know. :)

Answer 3

A certain Lentulus, a Roman offical for the Romans in the province of Judaea, in the time of Tiberius Caesar, upon seeing the Christ and noting his wonderful works, his preachings his endless miracles and other amazing things about him, wrote this to the Roman Senate:
" There appeared in these times, and still is, a man of great power named Jesus Christ, who is called by the Gentiles (peoples) the prophet of truth, and whom his disciples call the Son of God: raising the dead and healing diseases, a man in stature middling tall, and comely, having reverend countenance, which they that look upon may love and fear; having hair of the hue of an unripe hazelnut and smooth almost down to his ears in curling locks somewhat darker and more shining, waving over him(his) shoulders, having a parting at the middle of the head according to the fashions of the Nazareans; a brow smooth and very calm, with a face without wrinkle or any blemish,whish a moderate colour(red) makes beautiful; with the nose and the mouth no fault at all can be found; having a full beard of the colour of his hair, not long but a little forked at the chin; having a expression simple and mature, the eyes grey, glancing(various) and clear; in rebuke terrible, in admonition kind and lovable, cheerful yet keeping gravity; sometimes he hath wept, but never laughed; in statue a body tall and straight, with hand and arms fair to look upon; in tall grave, reserved and modest(so he was rightly called by the prophet) and fairer than the children of men."

Answer 4

Many people can percieve god in many forms, as a multiple armed women, as a fat man with a smile(buddhism), as that bearded guy u described. God is also omniexistent, he needs no creator he is there, he is eveyone and everything (since he created it all), He doesnt have a look probly, some people think god is pure, raw energy if so then he has no look other than of what he created not only adam, eve, jesus, noah etc, Of everyone.

Answer 5

Well you see i don't believe in God, but i do have an opinion to you question. I'll give it to you if you allow me, trying not to offend anyone. I think of God as an idea, an abstraction, god means different things even to people in the same faith. The need to give him/her/they a face, a form, a name, i think, comes from the desire to understand that idea better. Its easy to think of him as an old man, which gives us the idea of knowledge,as spirit light as you put it, reflecting enlightenment, and so on. He will take the form that makes you understand him better. Right?

Answer 6

That is Charlton Heston in the "Ten Commandments"!

No one could actually see God without dying. (Exodus 33:20)
As a spirit creature, God has no body. His form is something humans cannot comprehend. It would probably drive us insane to glimpse it. Human brains tend to shut down when it comes across something it can't handle.

Answer 7

i use to try and envision God in the physical form but never was able to,His presense around me gives me a lightened sense of being,peace that surpasses all understanding,joy unspeakable...knowing Him and living by the Holy Spirit in His kingdom(His way of doing things)there is no way that a person could put Him into one being,you cant catagorize Him,He told Moses I Am that I Am that covers everything

Answer 8

How big is big? For someone to create what he did size does not matter. He can be only three feet tall or a hundred. When I die then will I know. As for Jesus he was not six feet tall, you have to see the people at that time.

Answer 9

More like George Burns in "Oh God" "Oh God Book2" & "Oh God You Devil"

Answer 10

welcome