Does God look like a human?

[theCardinalbird]

If we are made in the image and likeness of God, then does that mean our image physically? If so then does God look like a human?

 

[Wesrock]

If we are made in the image and likeness of God, then does that mean physically? If so then does God look like a human?

God assumed a human nature: Jesus. Jesus is a divine person because of the hypostatic union. So, given this, God does look like a human.

However, if you are referring to the Divine Nature itself, not considering the assumed human nature, no, God does not look like a human. He doesn’t look like anything, as he is non-localized spirit. There is no body. When God made man in his image, he meant that he would give them rational intellects. The ability to know and comprehend abstracted universals. The ability to have voluntary wills.

From Bishop Haydock’s commentary on Genesis 1:26

Ver. 26. Let us make man to our image. This image of God in man, is not in the body, but in the soul; which is a spiritual substance, endued with understanding and free-will.

 

[CatholicSpirit]

Father Time in Shirley Temples Blue bird, The Wizard in the Wizard of Oz, the bearded man in Monty Pythons Holy Grail…

Oh the humanity!

 

[Dovekin]

Do not judge from his appearance or from his lofty stature, because I have rejected him. God does not see as a mortal, who sees the appearance. The LORD looks into the heart.
1 Sam 16:7

God did not see our our physical appearance when we were created. God looked past all that and saw our hearts and how closely they “looked” like him.

 

[CatholicSpirit]

God created our physical appearances. I think of it as a modeling shop, painting and developing us each from scratch.

From dust we came and to dust we shall return!

 

[Thom18]

Jesus does, but when God made man in His image, He wasn’t speaking of our physical appearance.

 

[Catholicwife32]

If we are made in the image and likeness of God, then does that mean our image physically?

No. God is spirit. He doesn’t look like anything. What it means to be created in God’s image and likeness is a much deeper spiritually significant subject than this.

While it is true that the second person of the Holy Trinity took on flesh and was fully God and fully man, when most people talk about what God looks like as it pertains to this question, they’re talking about God the Father or God as the Trinity.

The Father is not the Son. Only the Son took flesh. The Son and the Holy Spirit are both completely God but not each other. This three in one unity is a mystery but a mere look at God’s Trinitarian nature tells us that being made in God’s image does not mean God looks human. Heck, God is three persons and we are only one.

 

[Sophie111]

God made us from the clay of the earth and breathed life into it.

It is therefore our life force that is in the likeness of God not our material clay.