Understanding God
By treedezy
@treedezy (61)
United States
January 29, 2011 11:11pm CST
This is concerning the difficulty in seeing God. The reason why its hard for us to see God is because we never seen his color figuratively speaking. This was the hard task of the prophets to describe the "color" of God. For example think of you trying to describe the color red to a person who never saw it before.How would you explain it to them without showing them the color red. You can only give parables and comparisons. you can say its darker than yellow. You can say its close to orange but not orange. You can say a lot of things to create an image in the persons mind, but it will never be the exact image. This is one of the mysteries of God.
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@camomile07 (1420)
• Germany
30 Jan 11
That's right, we cannot see Him like we do with our family, neighbours,... because as a spirit He is, there is no body do see, to photograph, to paint, etc.
But the Holy Scriptures describes Him very well, all His characters, His personality. And with all these descriptions we learn from the Bible to imitate and follow Him, it should be enough.
We don't need to see Him as a person to trust Him or to know Him. The important is how He is, what He thinks about and what He wants.
You can see on of your neighbours or a collegue from your work or school every day during years and you may think that you know this person. But, do you really know him? Do you know what he is thinking or doing or how he would react to certain circumstances?
There are more important points than a physical aspect.
@visavis (5934)
• Philippines
30 Jan 11
Hello my friend I like you how to describe God, keep it up. Here is my view about that nobody see the image of God, because God is spirit, holy and nobody can see God as mentioned in the bible. What God needs to us is FAITH on HIM, trust on HIM and love and worship HIM in spirit and in truth. see you around