RE: How long will Christians wait for Jesus?
February 18, 2017 at 10:07 pm
(This post was last modified: February 18, 2017 at 10:10 pm by Lek.)
(February 18, 2017 at 5:01 pm)Kernel Sohcahtoa Wrote: Hello, sir. The following questions are out of friendly curiosity and are in no way intended to be disrespectful toward your beliefs. With that said, if God presents itself as a man to you, then does God also present itself in a form that is more acceptable/comprehensible to the person it is presenting itself to? For example, if some person (male or female) experienced God, then could that person see God as a woman? If some sentient alien life-form saw God, then would God present itself in an image that is somewhat similar to how that life-form looks? Are all of these images of God equally valid? Furthermore, how do people distinguish between God and their projections of what God is?
I appreciate you being respectful of my beliefs. I also try to do the same. We don't know what God looks like. Christians assume that he is spirit and has no physical body. In the bible he has appeared from time to time in human form or other ways, such as in the burning bush in the old testament. He finally took the form of a human in Jesus. We tend to picture God in human form and whether we picture him as a man or woman really doesn't matter as we can't know what God the Father looks like. It wouldn't be any closer to picture him as a man than to picture him as a woman. I would also assume that a creature on another planet would tend to picture him in his form. My opinion is that if picturing God in a particular form brings you closer to him then great, as long as you still worship the true God and not some idol image that you've formed in your mind.