the form of God

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I have a challenge to all Christians in this forum, this is not a debate on who knows God best but rather a opportunity for you to share how you see your God. I base this challenge on these scriptures:

Ex 32:1And when the people saw that Moses delayed to come down out of the mount, the people gathered themselves together unto Aaron, and said unto him, Up, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we wot not what is become of him.Ex 32:2And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.Ex 32:3And all the people brake off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.Ex 32:4And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.Ex 32:5And when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it; and Aaron made proclamation, and said, To morrow is a feast to the LORD.Ex 32:6And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Now here is the thought on these verses, Aaron took something and shaped and molded it into a god. very much like what we do, we take what we have heard, what we have read , and even what we have experienced and we shape that and mold it into the God that we serve. keep in mind here they were under Egyptian bondage for over 400 years, we think of ourselves as more righteous than the Israelites here, for how could they see the works of God, be fed by manna that came out of the sky , be freed from their boundage by the mighty hand of God, have water springing out of rocks and make this image of Him, "These be thy gods O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt" keep in mind here, all these people were borned and raise under egyptian religion, with egyptians worshipping their gods that were in this shapes of cows and other objects. true that the israelites taught their kids about the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob all how great a God that He was. But when they wanted a god that they could worship one that they could look on. the image they made was a calf. and we being righteous sit back and think HOW COULD THEY DO SUCH A THING AGAINST THEIR GOD??? so come take my challenge, share with others the form Of God that you have come up with after all your knowledge about Who God is, all the things you have heard about your God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob The God of the Christian religion, what form Is He to you, Christain. share it with those in here so that they can add to their God or even come to know this God that you have formed. now some self-righteous will say preacherman this a blaspheming we can't shape God, but think, isn't that what we do, isn't that the reason there is so much confusion to day about what God wants for His people and how He would have His people worship Him. If you think it wrong of me to say we can shape Him, then we are you going to stop trying to shape God in your image . we were made In His image, not He was made in our image of Him. we were made in His likeness, so what is that likeness??

The lesson I hope we learn here is that God Is a great big God when are we, His people going to recognize Him for that God that He is, and Not the God that we would make Him. melt down that image that you have of God as they did the golden calf and let the true Living God be manifested In your life. So let others see Your God that you serve honor amd worship.


Isa 55:4Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people.Isa 55:5Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.Isa 55:6Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:Isa 55:7Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.Isa 55:8For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
 
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Great analogy on the golden calf and how we create God to be what we want him to be.
To me God is the creator of the universe or universes that loves us more than we could understand. He is calling us home all the time and we don't always listen, He is always there though we don't feel Him. He is visible in all of His creation, ferns and pine trees just blow me away with the design and thought that God put in them. And then your baby is born and you see and know God loves his creation.
 
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I should have given Chip Ingram, credit for I was listening to one of his series on seeing God with 20/20 vision, when God challenged Me with this thought,
 
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Well its a good one I've compared ourselves to the children of Israel about coming out of bondage like us and wandering around in the desert not taking the promise land like we are because our sins or the giants are too big. I think I might need to look around in there some more, funny how scripture grows as we do.
 
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motojojo said:
Well its a good one I've compared ourselves to the children of Israel about coming out of bondage like us and wandering around in the desert not taking the promise land like we are because our sins or the giants are too big. I think I might need to look around in there some more, funny how scripture grows as we do.
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Ac 4:24And when they heard that, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, Lord, thou art God, which hast made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all that in them is:Ac 4:25Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said, Why did the heathen rage, and the people imagine vain things?
 
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Only one person that wants to share their God ????
 
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The deserts are there for a reason, its through trial and temptation that our faith maybe made perfect. Count it all joy when you go through these trials. I believe that Gos allows us to pass through the deserts to build our faith, but most of all to remove the egypt(sinful nature) in us. In the shadows of death were our flesh cries out more for attention is the time when the test of 'presenting our bodies as living sacrifices to God 'manifests. wen we deny ourselves and obey God , that is the ultimate sacrifice. and god will smell a sweet savour abd pour out his blessings on us.
 
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Thank you African Queen that was good, looks like there is a lot in the story.
 
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The deserts are there for a reason, its through trial and temptation that our faith maybe made perfect. Count it all joy when you go through these trials. I believe that Gos allows us to pass through the deserts to build our faith, but most of all to remove the egypt(sinful nature) in us. In the shadows of death were our flesh cries out more for attention is the time when the test of 'presenting our bodies as living sacrifices to God 'manifests. wen we deny ourselves and obey God , that is the ultimate sacrifice. and god will smell a sweet savour abd pour out his blessings on us.
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thank you, so are you saying that the God you serve rewards those deny themselves and obey God??
 
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I suppose if I had to put God into earthly words I'd have to say that he is beyond the scope of my earthly intelect. I see God as huge, almost formless because He is so big, (dont know where I got this from cause we are created in his image so he should look like us i think) Anyway I see God as bigger than we can see... does that make sence? I also see God in the visual image that we've come to accept as Jesus. I visualize his ascent into heaven and for some reason I think he gets bigger in the ascent. (this is not scripturally supported at all its just kinda what i have in my pointy little head). I more feel him than see him in the immediate washing white as snow the terrible past that weighed me down... this in an instant so I see a Father who absolutely loves me. I see him in the day to day miracles where he prompts a word and it is the perfect word and it is not my word but His word for a repentant heart. I see him as God the Father the creator of the universe who I revere and stand frozen in awe at his awesome power. He gives me evidence of His presence in a rainbow on my property line the day my sons bus was rear ended by a transport truck. each property peg had an end of the rainbow. So I see a Heavenly Father who is right there who I can speak to in all things. as far as a visual image of God, I think that is impossible except maybe the picture I have of Jesus in my head but I'm inclined to think that that image is deceptive and Christ probably looks nothing like I visualize. I suppose I've never really given too much thought to how i see God and more thought to how if feel him. At times its like I'm enveloped by him and He is my Loving Father. I feel like i've totally failed to articulate who God is to me. I think a visual of the Father Son & Holy Spirit is beyond earthly description & comprehension.
 
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I would not try to perpose an image. I know God said he made us in his image.I have often wondered if the phisical is likened to the image of ourselves in the mirror. The true part is that which the image reflects. God is to great to confine to something small. I see God as that which creates. He is the father that I so dearly love. The hope that keeps me going. The love that defines all that is love. Sometimes I see him as all that knows, knows what we need. All that creates and creates all we need. And that which defines all that is , not just in us and where we are, but all that is beyond and within .As I have said before, we cannot hold God within our mind. His mind holds us ,and all we need is given by his will and love. God bless, pickles
 
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thanks for sharing with us I moss and pickles, we can shape the Spiritual side Of God as well as we see him physically, some people call it putting God in a box . so we can create the size of God and His ability to move in our life by our faith in him. you may say that we can't limit God of anything for He is God , but Jesus couldn't do anything,except heal a few sick, in one city and the Bible says it was because of their unbelief. it is the will of God that none of these perish,but hell grows larger everyday. Romans tells us:

Ro 1:22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,Ro 1:23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.


so Spiritually God can be changed by the way we see Him, the thought that God challenged me with in this thought is that God is a Great be God , so when am I going to let Him, Be the God that he could be and the God that He wants to Be in my Life. unlease the power of God in your life and just let God be the Great I Am , not the little God that most always sees Him as
 
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To me these scriptures speak to 'the form of God'?

John 5:37, 10:30, 14:7-11, 15:24, Heb 1:3, 1John 3:2,3
 
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shad said:
To me these scriptures speak to 'the form of God'?

John 5:37, 10:30, 14:7-11, 15:24, Heb 1:3, 1John 3:2,3
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Yes these are good verses on what the form of God should be or even can be but is that the form of the God that You serve, that you have in your mind as what God can be.
 
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Thaddaeus said:
Now here is the thought on these verses, Aaron took something and shaped and molded it into a god. very much like what we do, we take what we have heard, what we have read , and even what we have experienced and we shape that and mold it into the God that we serve.
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"serve?" More like desire. I think you said what I have been saying for a long time. Nice to see others out there that understand we have no idea what God is really like. Since no one has seen him that is, and few have actually held a conversation with him. (and Jesus doesn't count cause he ain't God)
 
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The form of God--?

Well.. first -- there is only one God.. so I see not three seperate beings in teh trinity but one being expressing Himself in 3 substances or essences.

I see that whenever you see God manifest in physical form.. whether it be OT or NT.. it is Jesus... as in God in human form.

I see the Holy Spirit as personal, co-equal with the Father and Son as one being..and not an impersonal force.

I see Jesus-- as fully God and fully man.. equal with the Father.. the very image of the Father.. and expression of the Father..

I don know what Jesus looked like in human form.. I thought he must have looked Jewish.. like the others of his time.. but I read an interesting thing about how since He was conceived not by men but by God..put in Mary's womb.. then He could look quite different than those of His day. He did not have to look like either Mary or Joseph.

But yeah.. up to a point.. I can say what God is like.. but then He becomes beyond imagination when you consider How he created things.. how he holds things together.. His divine will etc etc.. can't box Him.. He is too big for that..

Psalm 92:5 O LORD, how great are your works! and your thoughts are very deep.

Psalm 40:5 Many, O LORD my God, are your wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are to usward:
they cannot be reckoned up in order unto you: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

(Psalm 139:2-4) Lord, you know my downsitting and my uprising, you understand my thoughts afar off.
You compass my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways.
For there is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, O LORD, you know it altogether.

(KJV verses with modified thees and thous) :)
 
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This topic fascinates me, but since the original post was written in one, big, long paragraph, I switched off and stopped reading.

I see God as someone who wants to teach the world to use a space bar. J/K, but seriously people, SPACE PLEASE! When you don't the post looks like one big mess of scrambled letters and it's hard to read.
 
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I think a simple way to say it is... It is not us that defines God Our Father. But God who defines himself to us.
God bless, pickles
 
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When Elijah or I forget who, asked to see God's form, God passe dhim by and he saw his back. The form of God looked like us because we are made in his image.
 
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Exodus 33:20 -23 that was Moses i believe
 
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