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A big guy with a flowing white beard? Who knows? Personally, I believe that there is no reason that an all-powerful, ethereal entity should have to assume such a humble form. What do you think?
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Posted by DanB
A big guy with a flowing white beard? Who knows? Personally, I believe that there is no reason that an all-powerful, ethereal entity should have to assume such a humble form. What do you think?
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I do not think God has a form, per se.
We so not seem capable of understanding the nature of what God is. . . .
Implying form implies that he has a lair somewhere.
I think a true understanding of the nature of God lies at the nexus of all of the major thought processes on religion and faith. . . .
Old man with beard, fat guy meditating, guy with 8 arms. . . . 
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The form of the Christian God is utterly incomprehensible to the human mind. God tells Moses in the Book of Exodus that seeing "his" full unadorned glory would kill Moses. Christians believe that God appeared to people in a human form, Jesus, so that he could interact with us on a more personal level. However, this form did not contain all that God was and is. Jesus was still one with the God running the universe and juggling planets while he was down here hobknobbing with the humans.
People tend to view God as an old man with a white beard because we tend to anthropomorphize everything. Whatever God's true physical form might be, it is *much* greater than this.
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He's a nice white man with long flowing hair and a generous beard and he wears lots of gold and flowing white robes, and fire shoots from his eyes and fingertips, and lightning too, and he is mysterious, generous, gentle and wrathful and vengeful and terrible and yet he's kind and he smiles a lot and he likes to help people overcome their obstacles and he can invent things simply by thinking them into existence and he can destroy things too with even greater ease and he once got a woman pregnant and then killed her baby in a grotesque display of cruelty and suffering, yet he loved this baby and all the people who love this baby are given special treatment after they die, yet he scoffs at the misery of people who don't love this baby, and his voice is deep and you can sometimes hear it when you're feeling crazy and energetic and ready to walk into a local fast-food place armed with high-powered automatic weapons so that you may kill lots of followers, etc. and/or un-believers.
Basically, he looks like Charlton Heston wearing a wedding gown.
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Posted by KublaKhan
Basically, he looks like Charlton Heston wearing a wedding gown.
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But does he stand at a podium and say, "From my cold dead hands," whilst clutching a kalishnikov and the 10 commandments.
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Posted by Father Maurice Lester
But does he stand at a podium and say, "From my cold dead hands," whilst clutching a kalishnikov and the 10 commandments.
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A Communist weapon? Blasphemy!
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Posted by KublaKhan
A Communist weapon? Blasphemy!
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Sorry. A Smith and Wesson.
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Posted by KublaKhan
He's a nice white man with long flowing hair and a generous beard and he wears lots of gold and flowing white robes, and fire shoots from his eyes and fingertips, and lightning too, and he is mysterious, generous, gentle and wrathful and vengeful and terrible and yet he's kind and he smiles a lot and he likes to help people overcome their obstacles and he can invent things simply by thinking them into existence and he can destroy things too with even greater ease and he once got a woman pregnant and then killed her baby in a grotesque display of cruelty and suffering, yet he loved this baby and all the people who love this baby are given special treatment after they die, yet he scoffs at the misery of people who don't love this baby, and his voice is deep and you can sometimes hear it when you're feeling crazy and energetic and ready to walk into a local fast-food place armed with high-powered automatic weapons so that you may kill lots of followers, etc. and/or un-believers.
Basically, he looks like Charlton Heston wearing a wedding gown.
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that was the longest sentance I've ever read
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I think God can take any form he wants to. Wouldn't it be funny if when a KKK member died, he found out that God was black?
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Posted by monster
I think God can take any form he wants to. Wouldn't it be funny if when a KKK member died, he found out that God was black?
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HAHAHAHA...um, wait. I don't get it.
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If he's trying to keep track with everything going on here with our rapidly over-growing population, I'm guessing he looks like a rather haggard account at tax time.
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Posted by KublaKhan
He's a nice white man with long flowing hair and a generous beard and he wears lots of gold and flowing white robes, and fire shoots from his eyes and fingertips, and lightning too, and he is mysterious, generous, gentle and wrathful and vengeful and terrible and yet he's kind and he smiles a lot and he likes to help people overcome their obstacles and he can invent things simply by thinking them into existence and he can destroy things too with even greater ease and he once got a woman pregnant and then killed her baby in a grotesque display of cruelty and suffering, yet he loved this baby and all the people who love this baby are given special treatment after they die, yet he scoffs at the misery of people who don't love this baby, and his voice is deep and you can sometimes hear it when you're feeling crazy and energetic and ready to walk into a local fast-food place armed with high-powered automatic weapons so that you may kill lots of followers, etc. and/or un-believers.
Basically, he looks like Charlton Heston wearing a wedding gown.
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Run-on sentence much?
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sorry, I forgot that I posted the first one
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Posted by Captain Obvious
A big guy with a flowing white beard? Who knows? Personally, I believe that there is no reason that an all-powerful, ethereal entity should have to assume such a humble form. What do you think?
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Good question there. Who really knows?
I believe God can take any form He wants to. The "Big bearded guy with flowing white robes" form or 'such a humble form' would be taken so that He won't be so intimidating. Or God takes whatever form is necessary for whatever needs to be done.
Posted by monster
I think God can take any form he wants to. Wouldn't it be funny if when a KKK member died, he found out that God was black?
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It would be really hilarious. Give the KKK member something to think about.
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He is faceless according to Jack Chick
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Assuming you're a Biblical literalist, there is specific mention of God's finger, his back, his mouth, his eyes and ears, his face, his arm and his hand. It's possible he has only one of each limb, but otherwise the Bible paints a pretty "human" picture of him.
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Posted by Father Maurice Lester
He is faceless according to Jack Chick
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And he has the face of Martin Short, according to me.
So the fuck what?
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There is no Christian God, God can be best explained as Infinite, outside of the physical universe. It is impossible to describe this god, as it is beyond all things of this realm.
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