I have always wondered why in religion especially christianity that all the figures or gods/saints/angels/are all painted and sculpted and yet nothing of God as such is ever.
If you were asked to portray GOD in words and in pictures/paintings
how would you do it?
For example
would you say God is a he/a she/both...
if so why.
You must justify your answer.
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
Jesus Christ has been portrayed in many different ways, and He is God. If you actually want to observe God from the Christian point of view, then He is it. There is also the Father, but as it considered from Exodus 33, Moses was the only one to see God, but only from the back. It is too much for man to see the Glory of God's face.
Of course if the Scriptural considerations aren't what you are looking for, then you must be looking for another god from religions other than Judaism and Christianity.
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
As a sausage in saurkraut.
Is that suppose to be applicable to the discussion?Originally Posted by cafolini
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
So what you are saying is seeing Jesus is seeing God .There is also the Father
I was thinking that with pictures/relics of Jesus and all the paintings made about him,it is in a way swaying people from the concept of God.
By adorning an image a picture of a Jesus people are in way in trance with a relic/image and moving/forgetting about the concept of God and what it mean.
I have heard about this concept of too much to see God'sface.but as it considered from Exodus 33, Moses was the only one to see God, but only from the back. It is too much for man to see the Glory of God's face.
In Islam they say the same thing about the prophet too much to see his face.
Bu then to see someone's back is not seeing at all..so Moses did not see God.
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
I saw him in my morning toast.
Michelangelo painted God the father touching Adam's finger on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. God has a hoary beard and hair and his arm is around Mary. The OP is wrong to claim God Himself has never been painted.
Obviously it is. You are questioning it.
This is trolling.
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"In flames and torment?""Oh, yes, I do."
"That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said."Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
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Why couldn't it simply be how I would paint god? Wasn't that the question?
I don't know about wrong but I personally never have seen a painted picture of God.
It is not common is what I am trying to say.
By the sound of the Sistne Chapel a God with a hoary beard sounds somehow offputting.
it may never try
but when it does it sigh
it is just that
good
it fly
The first thing I think of when I try to imagine God is a shadowy figure, abstract ideas and concepts, and I feel emotions. God is definitely very difficult to portray.
But if I were somehow obligated to portray him visually, I suppose I would paint nature, and maybe a dove (since the Spirit chose to be in that form when He came upon Jesus), and maybe a rainbow (since that is what God used to remind us of His promise to Noah and the world to never flood it again the way He did in Genesis).
Good question, btw!
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John 14:7-11
7 “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him.”
8 Philip said to Him, “Lord, show us the Father, and it is sufficient for us.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Have I been with you so long, and yet you have not known Me, Philip? He who has seen Me has seen the Father; so how can you say, ‘Show us the Father’? 10 Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me? The words that I speak to you I do not speak on My own authority; but the Father who dwells in Me does the works. 11 Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father in Me, or else believe Me for the sake of the works themselves.
Les Miserables,
Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.
But he is depicted often enough - God the father, that is. And, not surprisingly, he's depicted in a fatherly way, with a benign hoary-bearded face.
I think today we need something genuiney German to paint god. There will be times when a hard salami with a chunk of provolone could do the job. Who knows, we could even change to mozzarella.
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