Besides the atheists who will say " Yeah, I thought he was real"
I mean people who actually care. For example, I thought God had a long beard with a cool crown, and he was some muscular white dude with great teeth!
2007-12-07 04:51:25 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dera Atheists
It's not like I dont consider your answers valid. I'm glad you clicked. But in all honesty there must have been some thought in your head as to what God looked like at least. "He doesn't exist" is just typical.
Love you,
Deez
2007-12-07 04:58:50 · update #1
I thought God was sitting up in the sky waiting to smack me down every time I did something wrong. Then I found out God was loving, forgiving, and just.
2007-12-07 04:55:40 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That God was an old white man with a beard and white robes, like Michaelangelo painted him I discovered that different religions have different concepts of what God is and that nobody is wrong. And as Budda said, "all paths lead to the same destination".
2007-12-07 04:58:16 · answer #2 · answered by Isadora 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
That God was angry all the time and just waiting for you to mess up so he could zap you.
I later realised that wasn't God--that was my dad.
I was also literally taught that the world would end at the end of the 20th century and that the New Jerusalem would be in the southern Midwest.
2007-12-07 06:27:58 · answer #3 · answered by anna 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I guess not wrong, just incomplete. For instance, I believed there was but one god and I know longer believe it. I also thought that we were at the mercy of an agry god instead of a child being taught how to take advantage of the powers around and within us.
2007-12-07 04:56:45 · answer #4 · answered by halestrm 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I can't recall ever contemplating what God "looked like" - but I do remember that I used to think that there was one great purpose for everyones life - one "Big Thing" that we were supposed to do and that once a person finished his "task" - he died.
I've since come to realize that it's a lot more about the journey and those little tasks we accomplish along the way. His plans and purposes are in every breath we take.
2007-12-07 05:23:14 · answer #5 · answered by Marji 4 · 6⤊ 1⤋
the biggest thing was the indoctrination that told me god was constantly watching me and listening to my thoughts. I guess after that would be the ridiculous notion that somehow I was born dirty and guilty for acts committed centuries before my conception and that I would need to kneel and pray to this jerry garcia looking character on a giant gold throne in heaven, or else I would burn forever in a lake of fire.
then I grew up and got an education, which made me realize that religion is not only a falsity, but child abuse as well
2007-12-07 05:02:37 · answer #6 · answered by dr schmitty 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I grew up thinking of God as some stern judge sitting up in the clouds who would pounce on me for every little sin and send me to Hell.
Then I finally wrapped my mind around the concept that "God is love," and my whole view of Him and the world changed. God's not my enemy or my judge: He's my loving Father in Heaven.
2007-12-07 05:03:26 · answer #7 · answered by Wolfeblayde 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
When I was a child, I honestly thought that *IF* there was a God, He certainly hated me very much.
I now know there IS a God and that He loves me more than I can imagine.
2007-12-07 05:16:33 · answer #8 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
I thought God was kind of scary. Turns out he's loved me more than I could ever hope for.
2007-12-07 06:09:45 · answer #9 · answered by Lamborama 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
To the first answer, God answers all prayers. It may be a yes, no, or WAIT. WAIT is his most common answer.
And God is a loving God. He is also a jealous God and a unfair God. If God was fair, everyone on the earth would go to hell.
2007-12-07 04:57:16 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋