How do you visualize God?

how do you guys think of the Creator in appearance personality and whatnot?

we have heard and seen how some visualize Emmanuel and shaitan but what about the Alpha and the Omega.

also why?

Seriously as a kid I thought he looks like this

For me God = Thor, Odin, elfs etc.

Originally posted by Deadline
For me God = Thor, Odin, elfs etc.

Norse elfs qualify as gods?

Originally posted by King Castle
how do you guys think of the Creator in appearance personality and whatnot?

lol

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Norse elfs qualify as gods?

Its not common knowledge but basically they are equal to the gods and in some cases seem more powerful. Sif is an elf, the stepson of Thor (Ullr) is an elf, Skadi is mixed race, Idunn is an elf etc.

Wow you're like a homing missle...........

yes, personality.. i bn thinking about heavily due to morgan freeman..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQonlHIo1ck&feature=related

has me thinking if he has a sense of humor and whatnot.

also can you change the title to: How do you visualize The Creator instead of God pls..

You dodged the issue, Deadline. Do you actually believe in them? If not, your first post was a non-answer to the OP.

Originally posted by Digi
You dodged the issue, Deadline. Do you actually believe in them? If not, your first post was a non-answer to the OP.

I'm pretty sure he was just asking what they look like to me.

Originally posted by King Castle
yes, personality.. i bn thinking about heavily due to morgan freeman..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQonlHIo1ck&feature=related

has me thinking if he has a since of humor and whatnot.

also can you change the title to: How do you visualize The Creator instead of God pls..

Most theistic Gods are all-knowing, all-powerful, all-etc. As such, the issue of personality is a non-question. God is everything rolled into one. A singularity, if you will.

Christians may tell you he is Love, others may tell you that God is a creative force, not a person, so there's no personality to speak of. To them, he has no more personality than a coffee machine that is the "God" of the coffee it makes.

But ascribing human personality traits to God is pretty laughable. Any God who possesses human-like characteristics is limited enough to be beneath worship or the title of God. More aligned with Deadline's pantheons than any current concepts of God.

Originally posted by Digi

But ascribing human personality traits to God is pretty laughable. Any God who possesses human-like characteristics is limited enough to be beneath worship or the title of God. More aligned with Deadline's pantheons than any current concepts of God.

I don't think human characteristics are mean't to be taken literially, also it depends on interpretation.

Originally posted by Deadline
I don't think human characteristics are mean't to be taken literially, also it depends on interpretation.

He said he thought God had a sense of humor. Or was at least considering the possibility. That's what I was responding to. I wasn't talking about potentially metaphoric descriptions, but a very concrete one in this thread. Any omnipotent and all-whatever God who has a sense of humor is laughable to me, for reasons stated above. It's not impossible, but wouldn't warrant the term 'God' imo.

Yeah I was adding my 2 cents I guess. See where you're coming from.

Santa Claus.

The Big Electron

Originally posted by King Castle
how do you guys think of the Creator in appearance personality and whatnot?

2nd Commandment 😉

Originally posted by Digi
He said he thought God had a sense of humor. Or was at least considering the possibility. That's what I was responding to. I wasn't talking about potentially metaphoric descriptions, but a very concrete one in this thread. Any omnipotent and all-whatever God who has a sense of humor is laughable to me, for reasons stated above. It's not impossible, but wouldn't warrant the term 'God' imo.

I agree the idea that God has human characteristics is anathema to most philosophers...then again it might be fitting to use humanize God in order to illustrate his relationship with man, as futile an attempt it may be I would suppose it still has rather effective meaning, even if it only skims the water of who or what God is...if you can really say he is anything.

Of course if we have an Incarnate God, like Jesus, things get a bit more tricky.

i often think that if god is god he is every where every when permeates every person, animal and thing...

but if he had to interact with ppl and gave itself an avatar or allowed itself to be comprehended it would be a laid back funny person cracking jokes with me... possibly teasing me.

or some zen type monk being cryptic and pissing me off..

i honestly think it would be a mirror version of my inner self and what i would consider it to be the creator. an abstract

I just look up at the night sky.

my version he be about 5'8 athletically trim.. sleeve tribal tats... long flowing hair brownish hair tied back... a beard with some highlights..

leather tanned brown pants and a white cotton shirt old school European style from the 1600 century but no sleeves..

wrist guards made of platinum..

his eyes would be grayish green..

quirky sense of humor but with a lil dark humor hidden inside of his jokes...