2007-12-08 08:42:59 · 30 answers · asked by tescobr 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Would God just be just a mirror-image of what people what Him to be? Different societies have different ideias of God. In the end God would be just a human ideia/invention/aspiration/illusion.
2007-12-08 08:54:23 · update #1
Yes the triangle God would have 3 sides, The Father Adjacent, the Son Hypotenuse, and The Holy Ghost Opposite.
The Father watched over his son who was birthed by the Cosine Mary. The son lived a productive life and taught of the Holy Ghost in a doctrine called "The Holy Sine." When Mary heard of her son's teaching she relinquished all her religious beliefs, illustrated in a story called "Mary meets Sine; the Evil Tangent."
2007-12-08 08:57:41 · answer #1 · answered by aaron.brake 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋
What a most peculiar question... where did you ever think up such an idea? What were you on at the time? How intoxicated were you? LOL
If god WERE some sort of Triangle, by very definition he/she/it would HAVE To have three sides or he/she/it wouldn't be a triangle would he/she/it?
But what I find intriguing is why you have thought up such a question? How can you even think about a spiritual essence as being some sort of geometric shape??? To my understanding god is a spiritual essence, so it a bit like saying something like gas is a triangle! It just doesn't make any sense.
2007-12-08 22:09:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Based my answer on "Flatland"; - A 2D triangle on a flat plane could not perceive a "god" at any point removed from its plane. If, however, a tetrahedron (a 3D polygon w/ 4 triangular faces) were to intersect that plane, it would appear to the triangle to be another triangle that grew, changed shape as the vertices crossed its plane, then diminish and disappear, "miraculously". While the triangle might deduce that a tetrahedron had to exist, had visited its plane, then left, it might logically conclude that such a figure had mystical powers to come and go as it pleased. Its effect would not be noticed on the plane by itself, but would have a profound effect on closely-spaced triangles that it happened to intersect; each would experience a single line appearing in its perimeter, crossing it at different speeds, then leaving without a trace. A few would experience the vertices as a bent line, only to be regarded as heretics or mad, then alienated from the group.
The tetrahedron as a concept would be seen as blessed with supernatural powers, residing in a dimension far removed from the home plane, aside from its single visit to mere 2D.
Conclusion: the tetrahedron is a unity, with 4 equal 3-sided faces. Its volume is unknowable, nor its composition, whether solid or a membrane. Got it?
2007-12-08 10:06:00 · answer #3 · answered by hurtin' 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, he would have 8 sides.. I sound stupid, but bear with me! lol
If triangle was to have a diety it would be a traingle with 8 sides. It is impossible for a triangle to have eight sides, meaning this diety doesn't exist. The same as it's impossible for a human to have super human powers. Meaning God also doesn't exist.
God this doesn't make sense written down.But does in my head! And plus Im writing complete crap!!!!!!!!
2007-12-08 10:27:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. There is only one God and that is the God of Abraham, Moses, & Israel. There is a trinity in His identity but it is like you calling me a Christian, a man, an artist. All three are correct but any one of them can be applied to me. So it is with God.
God the father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. All three are the same God. The God of Israel, and there is no other. He has a name and it has been revealed to us through Moses, He is "I AM " which is to say eternal, forever, never ending. No other name is fitting. Not Allah, Krishna, or whomever...........
2007-12-08 09:17:38 · answer #5 · answered by the old dog 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nice try. At least you didn't put God into a box.
Anyway there is still both the outside and the inside of a triangle. Did you ever think of that?
2007-12-08 08:58:34 · answer #6 · answered by Uncle Remus 54 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When i was a small child, i saw God as a pale lilac manta ray. I'm not kidding.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Manta_birostris-Thailand.jpg
Later on, i saw God as looking like Rick Jones from Fingerbobs.
2007-12-08 22:56:47 · answer #7 · answered by grayure 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus, people here are daft!
To answer your question, yes, it would have three sides. Just like the god of humans has human qualities because humans made him up.
2007-12-08 10:58:19 · answer #8 · answered by Sophrosyne 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Of course. We believe God looks like us. The bible says so.
If we looked like triangles, then God would look like triangles.
2007-12-08 08:46:31 · answer #9 · answered by Dan H 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
God is not made, He makes. Some people make images of what they think their god should look like, but you cannot put a shape or form to God. He created mankind in his image, but then we spoilt it. I think the nearest we can get to the image of God is in Christ Jesus. That's not his body so much as his character and the Holy Spirit is like that of our creator and father God. As they are as one.
Happy Christmas.
2007-12-08 08:59:29 · answer #10 · answered by Hi T 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋