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Originally Posted by duga
If there is one thing that bothers me about Christianity - well, ok, there are a lot of things - but, one of the big ones is how a literal interpretation of the bible has produced a personified God. Everyone imagines a big guy up in the sky with beard and robe deciding what he should be doing to/for us all the time. This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. For one, God would not have a physical manifestation. God would be an all pervading energy that lives within everything. Why would he need a body? He is an all powerful intelligence and a body would just limit him. Praying "to him" is a completely fruitless effort. There is no one entity to pray to...God would be everything all the time.
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A possible contributing factor to the idea of God as a man in the sky is the line from Genesis which says he created man in his image. Although that doesn't necessarily mean that God has or sometimes takes a human-like body shape, I think a lot of christians have interpreted it that way in the past .. and continue to do so!
Of course, God manifesting as an old man is an ancient idea
