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[Sword of Christ]

God is depicted like that. He is depicted "walking around" and "making clothes" (Gen 3:8,21).

He is described in human terms at some points but that's just a bit of artistic license. You for instance Ezekiels Vision.




And of course the classic depiction of the Holy Trinity.




Even the Sistine Chapel.




God is not a physical being and he is not within limited in time or space so he can't literally be depicted as being anything at all and the Bible is excruciatingly clear on this point. So this is artistic licence that makes some kind of a theological point only. This God is not the kind of gods the ancient Greeks believed in and depicted in human form.

He threatens to "hide his face" from the nation of Israel

No no no when you see anything in about "the face of God" or Moses catching a glimpse of Gods back or anything like that..I'll let Jesus explain.





What you have there is an awesomely cool mystical kind of thing, the people who wrote all stuff this knew damn what they were on about. This is a depiction of a reality, not the everyday physical kind reality we're used to seeing but described in terms we may be able understand on some level. That's essentially what the prophets did they translated the unknowable into the knowable.

Trying to argue that Yahweh is different from other gods because he's invisible is hysterical. It's also dumb. And also wrong.

The Bible make helps to make the unseenable something that can be seen as did Gods incarnation into history as the man Jesus Christ. If you want to know who God really is you can refer directly to him who both God and man as one complete whole. Christopher Hitchen's compare Christianity to a celestial North Korea but what he was doing is comparing Kim Jong Il to Jesus Christ and claiming the two be in some way equally just as bad as each other. This is a little bit of a stretch imo.