How do you visualize God?

I don’t.

I’m not overly religious, but from the descriptions I’ve cobbled together from numerous Christians who’ve proselytized to me over the years, I envision the three Gods sitting on their thrones on the top of a mountain in the very center of their giant Borg cube they call “New Jerusalem,” with their prophets and disciples sitting in pews behind them. And all the saved souls going about their business in the city/gardens below, sitting along the banks of the rivers lined with tree of life, a very beautiful setting.

But beyond the 1000 mile high walls made out of solid gemstone are all the lost souls darned to heck, as they try to slick-talk their way in, but the angels guarding the 12 gates with their flaming swords in hand, keep the zombie hordes out.

I don’t visualize god. I really only feel the divinity and it’s an impossible feeling to describe except that it feels right. At least, it feels right for me. :)

If pushed to visualization, however, I guess you could say I have a very cliched idea of god. I imagine a sort of shimmering, amorphous light-blob that forms and re-forms constantly. Sometimes parts form in the likenesses of individual gods and then they sort of melt back into the greater mass.

For the record, I’m not Christian, but I do believe that every divine being ever thought up by humans exists and is a facet of this divinity.

When I was a kid I saw him as a pretentious Santa, only without the costume.

I’m with @ucme but now He has changed , for me, into a very bright, white light .

I think Hegel had it right…God cannot be a being as such…

And old, yet tall and muscular greek looking man, with a white beard, slightly tanned skin, due to living at the peak of a mountain, always bathing in sunlight, clad in a pure white tunica, wearing a Laurel wreath on his head and holding an energetic lightning spear in his strong hand.

Oh wait, that is mighty Zeus.

The christian god is a bearded white overweight geezer, lounging lazily on a cloud carried on the strained back of slave angels.

I see Him with deep stress lines in His face, incomprehensibly saddened by the chosen path of many of His children.

@KatawaGrey “I do believe that every divine being ever thought up by humans exists and is a facet of this divinity.”

Even Inanna? She was a bitch.

@ragingloli Personally I think the Norse gods were the sexiest.

The voice of the Wizard of Oz. A toga clad barefooted white bearded man with a long purposeful stride. A twelve headed troll. An invisible spirit whose energy you can feel right to your core. The voice in Bill Cosby’s ‘Noah’ skit. I think of God more as a voice than a physical being and more as a spirit of energy than of a voice.

Depends on the god.

Zeus is classically described as a bearded muscular figure (he’s also a shapeshifter though so that complicates things). Artemis is a pretty huntress with a bow and arrow; most of the Greeks are pretty well described.

Marduk, the Babylonian god, is a champion warrior with a second set of eyes in the back of his head.

Yahweh, the Hebrew god who is probably the dude most people on Fluther think of when they say “God,” is described in Ezekial 1 as:

…something that seemed like a human form. Upwards from what appeared like the loins I saw something like gleaming amber, something that looked like fire enclosed all round; and downwards from what looked like the loins I saw something that looked like fire, and there was a splendour all round. Like the bow in a cloud on a rainy day, such was the appearance of the splendour all round. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of Yahweh.

So basically like a boss from a Final Fantasy game.

I picture God the way that every earthly well loved very young child sees a parent, (less by countenance or stature) but by the overwhelming love, security, total unconditional problem solving acceptance that radiates towards him/her. As we grow up and meet the love of our lives, and we get in the presence of that person, it is like our whole world takes on continuity, that the other carries an orb about them that says “you’re the one for me” and the loving, selfless behaviour backs that up. True enough in our humanity, we eventually mess up and things go awry, but that is the vision of completeness that we begin with!

The scriptures say among squillions of other wonderful infrastructure assertions that God “fills all in all.” God IS love. Christians experience this at various levels at various times through the company of Holy Spirit, and those who have returned from clinical death situations often attest to this as do the sages and mystics. They claim to be enveloped by this great enveloping, overwhelming Being of all love, all knowledge, all wisdom, all acceptance.

Thus

Naked, viral, with an enormous schlong.

I mean, why else does almost everybody call out his name during sex?

HA! Which God? The modern day Gods or the many Gods of olden times? Anyway as Curly from the Three Stooges might have said: “I try to visualize God but nothing happens!” Yes I think that our tiny brains are far too weak and feeble to comprehend God. So I just let it be.

When I’m bored enough to do such a thing, it’s all about Alex Grey’s paintings.

God is the ultimate realization of self at any given now moment in time. In order to see God, look in the mirror.

Can I add to my answer? I think god looks like this.

A comforting presence, a father, someone with your best interests at heart and doesn’t mind spoiling you a little.

Old man with white beard.

I’m not particularly religious so I’m not into that. I see what is termed as “god” by many religionists and nontheists to be a universal consciousness which is entangled (telepathy, twins, clairvoyance, dream precognition, etc as examples).

Some secular dualists call this “entity” Mind instead of God. Many New Agers call this entity a cosmic consciousness. To me god is the universally entangled minds that make up a single Mind, only seperated by information filter barriers that act as a check valve between the conscious and subconscious minds which gives us the illusion of individuality.

@Paradox25 So god is…the internet? Interesting.

God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth.

I do not have a picture of God in my mind. But can get a hint of His essence from the above.

a body hugging nebule – lots of cuddly arms ;-)