If there is a God, is He a person?

[flobadob]

I f God did exist, do you think he would be a person, or would he just be a mind?

[flobadob]

I must admit, I take umbrage at those who say this is a meaningless question. For a start a lot of people believe in God so let's respect that. Secondly, I'm just interested in people's perception of God. It means they've thought about it rather than just believing simply because that's what they've been told to do.
I must admit, I take umbrage at those who say this is a meaningless question. For a start a lot of people believe in God so let's respect that. Secondly, I'm just interested in people's perception of God. It means they've thought about it rather than just believing simply because that's what they've been told to do.
Thirdly am I right in thinking people think Good is some sort of shape shifter possible

[flobadob]

In case you didn't hear me the first time lol

[Old_Geezer]

Assuming the existence of a deity it seems to me they could, if desired, take any form they wished. It would be merely a case of altering your perception.

[flobadob]

No one really had a stab at this.

[vetuste_ennemi]

All faux cognoscenti (get the plural right, Clanad) kindly leave the stage. That's you, Mibs!

[Duncer]

I believe that we are all figments of each other's imaginations.

[woofgang]

Why are we engaging in meaningless questions
because this is the Answerbank

[evedawn]

I DO believe in God and as a Christian I believe that when folk say people are created in His image it is because of the Trinity (father, son, holy ghost and human too are made up of
A "trinity" body, soul , spirit ...of course I don't Feel the need to overanalyse .... I am happy with what I believe...

[vetuste_ennemi]

Surely a solipsism of the tongue, Duncer.

[chakka35]

flobadob, certainly lots of people believe in God . Lots of people also believe in magic crystals, Tarot cards, ley lines, miracle cures and other irrational things which have no basis in any form of fact.

How can we have, about such things, the 'meaningful dialogue' that Clanad wants? And speculating about the form of God, with the preface "If God did exist..." is like speculating about the colour of a unicorn "if it did exist". I repeat: the question is meaningless; we can do better with the intellects evolution has given us - as Clanad usually does when he is not in religious mode!

[mibn2cweus]

//All faux cognoscenti (get the plural right, Clanad) kindly leave the stage. That's you, Mibs!//

Hecklers are reminded they are free to leave the theatre if they have nothing substantial to contribute to the production. Sorry . . . no refunds.

[flobadob]

chakka, 3 billion people on this earth believe in a higher power. I think it is okay to inquire of them what they think this higher power may look like on appearance. If you don't want to answer, that is fine. The site is called answerbank, not snivelling self important know it all comments. Bank.

[chakka35]

flobadob, I see you're resorting to the usual personal abuse that so often accompanies an inability to argue sensibly. One more try:

Before speculating about what your God looks like would it be a good idea to supply some evidence of his/her/its existence? If you can, then we can get down to a serious discussion. If you can't and all you have is a belief, then my analogy concerning the colour of the unicorn stands.

And don't let me put you off being rude if you enjoy it.
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[vetuste_ennemi]

Christians and Muslims believe that God is a person (i.e. a self-conscious being), Flobadob. As an aside, OG, “person” has a strict theological meaning in orthodox Christian theology and refers to the separate aspects of the triune deity – see Sandy for details. If they didn’t think He was a person they wouldn’t talk to Him, would they? They also think that He has very human-like emotions (although they might put it the other way round – that we, made in His image, share something of the Divine). The emotions ascribed to God in both Bible and Koran (at least superficially viewed by unimaginative people like me) seem at least as arbitrary and self-contradictory as our own. He’s loving, but is prone also to anger and jealousy; He is merciful, but sinners will be punished forever. I’d love to hear a Christian or Muslim try to answer your question intelligently, but I think that will be a long time coming. I’ll have a go at asking them a question which is a lot easier: why do you kneel and prostrate yourselves in order to speak to your God? What is it you’re saying to Him which (a) He wants to hear, or (b) that He doesn’t know already. If God had my boredom threshold He’d get well p****d off.

[flobadob]

chakka, that's okay. I'm really only looking for the opinion of believers. I'm not asking a question on whether or not the big guy exists, I'm simply asking that, based on the fact that you as a believer believe in a God, what do you, as a believer, imagine this God to look like?

[mibn2cweus]

Like this - http://www.gravatar.c...&r=g&abrs4=2012071918 - according to some professed believers.

[chakka35]

OK, flobadob. I'll accept that. But you did say IF God did exist, implying that you were aiming at a wider readership than just believers, who assume that he does.

I'll leave it there. Best wishes.

[sandyRoe]

Isn't a prayer a kind of meditation where one might consider ones impermanent place in the world ?

[flobadob]

Sandy, only your mind leaves when you die. The rest of you is recycled.

And chakka, cool.

[sandyRoe]

I think there may be one or two here in AB who have lost their minds already