God is not a man

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The topic is “ God is not man ”.
My answer was showing Jesus took on human nature. He became man. ergo God IS MAN .
And since Jesus calls God , Father, then…
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^^ This! The Incarnation of the Second Person of the Trinity as a Man is what I was taught and have always believed.

And that is why we can depict Jesus in icons and art but should never make images to the Father and Holy Spirit (other than the Dove symbol 😀)
 
First off the Son and The Spirit are both God, I think you mean why is the Father portrayed as a man. Though its true God is neither male or female in the Human sense, he is referred to in the Bible and by Jesus as “the Father.” this is most likely why he is portrayed as a man in painting. I mean we imagine God through human eyes, obviously a painting will never be able to accurately portray the Father, how should we draw or paint him then? as a circle or something vauge?
 
Artistic licence, partly and also cos we are made in his image and we can’t paint love as a concept so we paint it as we see it…the only way we have ever seen true and perfect love is Jesus, so that’s how we paint God. I think most people realise that God is pure spirit and likely not male or female but in the Bible is referred to as male for our language does not and cannot cope with the concept of God and likely our brains can’t either so we make do with the best we have, again God came as a human male so we portray him that way. In the Bible the spirit is often portrayed as a dove, fire etc. so we copy that even though we know we can’t picture the spirit really. The rest is just guesswork we don’t know what God looks like. I think painting and pictures are our ways of showing our love for our creator as is poetry and they don’t have to be correct or adequate cos they never will be, they are just like children’s finger paintings that parents stick up on the fridge…beautiful only because they are done in love.
 
Your specious ridiculous assertions simply aren’t an argument.
 
yes understood. Im just responding to the question you posited
"who is “us” and “our” in Genesis and why the plural imagery.

Jesus is one person, two natures. As you noted
 
I certainly have no intention of continuing a supposed intellectual dialogue with one who engages in plagiarism.

Have a nice day. 😎
 
Warning, when the Colonel pull out the glasses, he thinks he got ya.

You should be panicking. 😎
 
I was pondering how we could draw a supernatural being we have never seen, the ‘old man in the sky’ is something I remember from childhood, but not anymore.

The supernatural being we call God is Jesus’ father, hence why Jesus is known as the son of God and son of man, as he has a human mother, so Jesus telling us to pray to the Father makes sense, because ‘he’ is Jesus’ father in the supernatural sense.
 
‘Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you for so long a time and you still do not know me, Philip? Whoever has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?’

-Gospel of John 14:9
 
In mankind’s age-old efforts to reach out to the Unseen Hand, we have depicted that image through artwork in many and diverse ways. Yes, God is usually portrayed as a male, elderly but powerful, with craggy features, wind blown whitish hair, and fiery eyes. The reasons for this are simply that this is how the artist chose to portray their ideas of the Divine. There are no set rules. If we have issues with this, the artist or sculptor is the only one to blame. Most of them are long since dead, though. 🙂
 
Have gone through one big bag of popcorn following this thread. The finite mind trying to comprehend the infinite. It’s been amusing.🤣🤣🤣

G-d is God. Unknowable by the human mind. Comparing G-D to anything we know of in existence is like comparing an Indy 500 race car to a watermelon.

Just give it up, love the Heavenly Father, whatever form G-d takes, and love him for the goodness he has provided.
 
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Haven’t read all of the recent posts … but keep in mind that they made a big deal of Jesus’ maleness … courtesy of His circumcision.
 
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I’m pretty sure simpleas’ question is about why the Father is presented as a human in art, not why He is a man instead of a woman or asexual.
 
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steve-b:
The topic is “ God is not man ”.
My answer was showing Jesus took on human nature. He became man. ergo God IS MAN .
And since Jesus calls God , Father, then…
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And that is why we can depict Jesus in icons and art but should never make images to the Father and Holy Spirit (other than the Dove symbol)
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Just curious, Who taught you that ?
 
goout said:
yes understood. Im just responding to the question you posited
"who is “us” and “our” in Genesis and why the plural imagery.

Jesus is one person, two natures. As you noted
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All I’m saying

As I quoted from Genesis
“Then God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness;”

IOW

Let us (Father Son and Spirit) make man in “our” image and likeness.

IOW

To see man therefore, is to see an image and likeness of God (Father, Son and Spirit).
 
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Glad it amused you 😃

Yes, but I was not comparing God to anything!

I was questioning/pondering why we have depicted God as a human…

Ok, I’ll give up pondering about God :+1:t2:
 
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