gnostic
The Lost One
Sometimes, when I write about a god....and I am talking about the Judeo-Christian-Muslim god...and applied human characteristics to the god, I sometimes get response that god is not human, and that I shouldn't or couldn't apply something that human nature to a god. That anthropomorphism should not be applied to god, such as one like him.
Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, laughed or pour scorns for the polytheistic religions that depict god in human forms, and say that One God is different, and yet I don't see the difference.
But we have description of god, particularly in the Tanakh and Bible that really make look like human, for all outward appearance at least.
They say god is love.
But isn't that human emotion?
Then there are time, when he express compassion, pride (eg pride about Job's devoutness), anger (wrathful), jealousy (in Exodus 20, he say that "I am a jealous god"), upset, get showed regrets (Flood), etc. All of these - human emotions.
In the scriptures, he showed favoritism towards people, eg Israelites, Christians, Muslims, and towards certain individuals, like Abraham and David. Showing favoritism is showing biased in a human way, isn't it?
We called him, Father. How do you view a father? Masculine, human male who sired offspring.
We view him being on a throne, like a king, and we call heaven, as a kingdom of God. Like it or not, and despite all not making look or sound a human, even Jesus and prophets apply human title and description to him.
As much as people about God is not a man, and hence human terms can't be applied to him, the descriptions given about him, make him...well, more like a human.
Is God human?
And there's the rub. They denied that he is human being, and yet in Genesis 1, when God created humans, man and woman on the 6th day, he said that he would create humans "in his image" or likeness.
If God made Adam in his image, then wouldn't he looked human?
Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, laughed or pour scorns for the polytheistic religions that depict god in human forms, and say that One God is different, and yet I don't see the difference.
But we have description of god, particularly in the Tanakh and Bible that really make look like human, for all outward appearance at least.
They say god is love.
But isn't that human emotion?
Then there are time, when he express compassion, pride (eg pride about Job's devoutness), anger (wrathful), jealousy (in Exodus 20, he say that "I am a jealous god"), upset, get showed regrets (Flood), etc. All of these - human emotions.
In the scriptures, he showed favoritism towards people, eg Israelites, Christians, Muslims, and towards certain individuals, like Abraham and David. Showing favoritism is showing biased in a human way, isn't it?
We called him, Father. How do you view a father? Masculine, human male who sired offspring.
We view him being on a throne, like a king, and we call heaven, as a kingdom of God. Like it or not, and despite all not making look or sound a human, even Jesus and prophets apply human title and description to him.
As much as people about God is not a man, and hence human terms can't be applied to him, the descriptions given about him, make him...well, more like a human.
Is God human?
And there's the rub. They denied that he is human being, and yet in Genesis 1, when God created humans, man and woman on the 6th day, he said that he would create humans "in his image" or likeness.
If God made Adam in his image, then wouldn't he looked human?
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