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Old 07-13-2006, 05:09 AM
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Have you ever thought of what God looks like?
I seem to have this picture of a "Father Christmas" type old man in my mind.
He's wearing a long white robe that covers his feet but is just above the ground.
He is white with white medium length facial hair.

What do you see when you picture God?
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Old 07-13-2006, 05:30 AM
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Have you ever thought of what God looks like?
I seem to have this picture of a "Father Christmas" type old man in my mind.
He's wearing a long white robe that covers his feet but is just above the ground.
He is white with white medium length facial hair.

What do you see when you picture God?
How can you picture an immaterial God? I don't see anything at all. I can picture Christ because He was incarnate as man, but not the Father. I can also picture the Holy Spirit as a dove or tongues of flame, but this is only really relevant to the instances when he is described as appearing as such. In general, I find it impossible to picture God at all except as Christ, in which case I picture Him as you see Him in our iconography.

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Old 07-13-2006, 05:48 AM
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Everyone has their own thoughts on God and his person. I personally think that to picture God is to limit him in some way. But never the less i still have an image of him in my mind. Maybe just an imagination thing.
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I always pictured God as some sort of undulating light/watery substance. Not really there, but there everywhere.
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That's easy, God look like whatever God want to look like. What's the point of omnipotence if one cannot change one's look when one feel like it?
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How can you picture an immaterial God? I don't see anything at all. I can picture Christ because He was incarnate as man, but not the Father. I can also picture the Holy Spirit as a dove or tongues of flame, but this is only really relevant to the instances when he is described as appearing as such. In general, I find it impossible to picture God at all except as Christ, in which case I picture Him as you see Him in our iconography.

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I agree; what God looks like is a thought I have had, but one which I have dismissed as swiftly as it came up.

Jesus Christ incarnate is a different thing altogether; it interests me, James, that you should view the Holy Spirit as you do. Obviously, knowing little of theology, I have never had an image of the Holy Spirit, apart from a form of energy.
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Have you ever thought of what God looks like?
I seem to have this picture of a "Father Christmas" type old man in my mind.
He's wearing a long white robe that covers his feet but is just above the ground.
He is white with white medium length facial hair.

What do you see when you picture God?
I see someone in whose image I was created. Pretty simple, really. I don't even try to imagine the details, but I hope very much to find out what He looks like when I am finally welcomed into His presence and get to see Him face to face.
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Have you ever thought of what God looks like?
I seem to have this picture of a "Father Christmas" type old man in my mind.
He's wearing a long white robe that covers his feet but is just above the ground.
He is white with white medium length facial hair.

What do you see when you picture God?
I think that's quite a common image, like Da Vinci's painting. Based upon Zeus of course.
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