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Please Anthropomorphize God
#21739895 - 05/30/15 06:22 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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First state whether or not you believe in God.
Then cast God into human form. God of course is not a human, it is all things and none, but describe Him/Her as if it were a human being, to the best of your ability. What would (s)he look like? What gender, age, race, occupation, circumstance?
Be respectful and sincere.
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Re: Please Anthropomorphize God [Re: Asante]
#21739901 - 05/30/15 06:26 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I believe in God and I would describe in human form as the person of Jesus Christ.
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Re: Please Anthropomorphize God [Re: Asante]
#21739905 - 05/30/15 06:27 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I had a discussion with a Christian about Jesus, and how he felt about a black image of Jesus vs the common white one, and how that would affect him. It messed with his mind quite a bit, which made it an interesting thought experiment to anthromorphize God.
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Re: Please Anthropomorphize God [Re: Deviate]
#21739910 - 05/30/15 06:32 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Deviate said: I believe in God and I would describe in human form as the person of Jesus Christ.
Thats great. Physically describe how you feel Christ looks.
Is this Christ?

Or is this christ:

And at which age of Jesus would God be Jesus in His current form?
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Re: Please Anthropomorphize God [Re: Asante]
#21739944 - 05/30/15 06:55 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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I don't believe in God or could know what She looks like.
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Re: Please Anthropomorphize God [Re: Asante]
#21739958 - 05/30/15 07:02 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Damn nobody ever said Jesus was from the Congo lol And why would God be Jesus? Not using very much imagination. .. he represents God but is not God. .. i don't believe in a god that would want to look human. We are not the most important thing in this universe and human's egos astound me. "I want to live forever in heaven and God should look like me!" How about the question why SHOULD God look like us?
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thebitterbuffalo26 said: Damn nobody ever said Jesus was from the Congo lol And why would God be Jesus? Not using very much imagination. .. he represents God but is not God. .. i don't believe in a god that would want to look human. We are not the most important thing in this universe and human's egos astound me. "I want to live forever in heaven and God should look like me!" How about the question why SHOULD God look like us?
LOl, it's not that God looks like us, it is that we look like God because we were created in his image. Think about it, if you were God and you decided to create, would you create some ugly piece of crap or something that resembled you and your glory?
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Re: Please Anthropomorphize God [Re: Asante]
#21740126 - 05/30/15 08:23 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Asante said:
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Deviate said: I believe in God and I would describe in human form as the person of Jesus Christ.
Thats great. Physically describe how you feel Christ looks.
Is this Christ?

Or is this christ:

And at which age of Jesus would God be Jesus in His current form?
I honestly dont have a clear image of Jesus in my mind, I know him as a Presence. There are several images of him that I like, which I think convey his essence to me, rather than how he actually looked, although he could have looked like them. I wanted to post one but I am having trouble finding it right now.
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Re: Please Anthropomorphize God [Re: Asante]
#21740134 - 05/30/15 08:26 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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i don't think God looks like us - though I would be open to the idea that humans were genetic creations of extraterrestrials that look similar to us, hence we were created in their image - to me God itself would have no body
but to play the game in the OP - I would like to put forward God as an elderly asian female, to mix things up a bit i think there's been historically too much of an emphasis on portraying God in masculine terms, so I think to balance that out now would be nice. really to me, God is beyond gender of course... I've always liked the expression 'Mother/Father God' as it seems more inclusive of the full spectrum of expression. I also like the expression 'Divine Source' as it transcends the gender and identity historically associated with the term God.
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Re: Please Anthropomorphize God [Re: Asante]
#21740477 - 05/30/15 10:20 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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As for me..
Based on religion and science, if I had to cast God into human form I'd envision as an African shepherd boy.
African, because man was created in Gods image and for the first 160,000 of the 200,000 years that mankind exists, Africans WERE mankind. Male, as Adam was created first.
Shepherd, because I like that metaphor of leading his flock (us) by our free will and slight coercion. You see this metaphor in religious writings often.
A boy, because I cannot envision God otherwise as being a child. God is eternal, but the present age of our big bang universe is quite young. We are still early in the stellar age. Baryonic matter is still abundant. In the state of the universe today God's in its child form, playing, it has not fully matured and certainly not grown old. In my conversations with God too, (s)he is usually quite playful, reminiscent of the innocence andf purity of childhood.
If God were one of us, this would be a fitting guise:
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Re: Please Anthropomorphize God [Re: Asante] 1
#21740556 - 05/30/15 10:40 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Asante said:
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Deviate said: I believe in God and I would describe in human form as the person of Jesus Christ.
Thats great. Physically describe how you feel Christ looks.
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Re: Please Anthropomorphize God [Re: WScott]
#21740590 - 05/30/15 10:51 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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Thats not human form in the true earthly sense.
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Re: Please Anthropomorphize God [Re: Asante]
#21740654 - 05/30/15 11:11 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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How many incarnations have their been? Is Jesus (Yeshua) related in someway to the Joshua that succeeded Moses?
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Re: Please Anthropomorphize God [Re: WScott]
#21740682 - 05/30/15 11:19 AM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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How many incarnations have their been?
We're smack in the middle of Eternity so, an infinite number. But here, now, on this earth, who knows. Plenty of prophets and avatars that came before had striking similarities.
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Re: Please Anthropomorphize God [Re: Asante] 2
#21740818 - 05/30/15 12:06 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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she has some interesting things to say about God. 
love the thread, and the shepherd boy illustration. . .
love your answers deff, i have preferred to imagine Divine as Mother more often than not as well; for quite a few reasons. . like you said, the former has been done too much;
also there is much to say about Mother Earth; we are all female to begin with; things like that, the Mother gives birth etc.;
also from Sanatan-dharma, every woman except for one's wife and children are often referred to as Mother; quite nice (random fact) i have thought of.
my personally, to the op, would be along the lines of an ancient Navajo or Oglala Sioux medicine man;
or another druid or shaman from a similar type of wisdom.
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Re: Please Anthropomorphize God [Re: Asante] 2
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Re: Please Anthropomorphize God [Re: Middleman]
#21741140 - 05/30/15 01:43 PM (8 years, 7 months ago) |
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beautiful!
art can be such a mirror to the divine
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