With this question I wasn't trying to be some smart ass, sarcastic jack ass, but rather a genuine query. There are many physical interpretations of God throughout many culture. Either God is amorphous and can change radically into form he wished to convey his divine knowledge to each culture or there are many gods.
David, I like your excample of the cpu and have used that very notion in discussions of the need for external program in order for it "to do." The discussion of the form of God is a little awry when we moderns choose to not consider what was discussed in the past, since we assume that the ancients were either too ignorant or too simple to understand our own complex questions. This is itself a rather thoughtless stance, however. The formulation of the Trinity in Christian theology is precisely the subject of God. If one were to look at these consideration, then much of what is even being said here are aspects of those ancient discussions in our modern understanding and modern vocabulry. So, God the Father, the creator, the unmoved mover, God the Son, Jesus of Nazatreth, the proven Messiah, and God the Holy Spirit, the Presence. These are not small notions, and were actually arrived upon through brawls and death! Passion has always followed man's desire. Since Alien Overlord has posted a physical thing, I offer the actual only physical aspect og God, which is Jesus.
Alien Overlord said:
With this question I wasn't trying to be some smart ass, sarcastic jack ass, but rather a genuine query. There are many physical interpretations of God throughout many culture. Either God is amorphous and can change radically into form he wished to convey his divine knowledge to each culture or there are many gods.
Rather than presume a shape-shifting god(s), consider each of us perceives the universe through the lense of our own experience.
We by nature define things by limits: a 2"X4", a sea beyond the shore, red, pungent. Therefore we are lost in any attempt to define (contain/explain the borders) the infinite which by definition has no limits.
Kate Wells said:
Jesus said, "if you've seen Me... you've seen the Father"
Right on Kate Christ is God incarnate, God looks like Christ because He is.
Colossians 1 states these powerful and descriptuive things of Him...
15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy. 19 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.
Kate Wells said:
Jesus said, "if you've seen Me... you've seen the Father" Half man via His mother, and half God via the Spirit...Jesus is the only way that you can see God... What does He look like? What does love, purity, righteousness, and holiness look like?
How can Jesus be half man and half God when He is God incarnate and not a demi-god like Hercules of Greek mythology?
