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Thread #107461   Message #2235071
Posted By: Little Hawk
12-Jan-08 - 08:14 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Amazing Grace. Should We Be Singing it??
Subject: RE: Folklore: Amazing Grace. Should We Be Singing it??
"How a particular individual envisions God doesn't say much about God, but it speaks volumes about that particular individual."

Yeah, Don! That's right.

I don't see God in my image. ;-) Meaning, I don't see God as a skinny guy with no facial hair and bushy hair on his head. LOL!

For one thing, I don't see God as a "guy". If I was inclined to see God as a person at all (and I'm not), I think She'd look more like Joan of Arc, or Joan Baez at age 22 or some kind of pure and heroic female figure, come to think of it.... ;-)

I don't see God as any kind of visual or biological image of a person at all. I see God as something completely indefinable in those terms.

People who see God as a remote, harsh, strict judge meting out rewards and divine justice are, I believe, seeing a reflection of their own harsh, vengeful, indulgent (to their favorites) and judgemental (to the rest) natures...and I can't relate to that view of it at all.

That's the "separate" God concept again, and I don't buy it.