Would God still be popular if he was non-bipedal?

I don’t think s/he would be.

Humanity is far too self-involved these days.

And the hard core fundies wouldn’t believe it anyways.

Don’t count Quetzalcoatl out, he’s making a comeback!

My perception of God does not involve legs, so maybe I am biased when I say yes.

I always though god would look like some sort of crustacean (but I could totally see god as a cephalopod)

Many gods also took on animal form.

God isn’t meant to be bipedal. He’s beyond anything we can imagine, but in an effort to try to comprehend him, we bring him down to our terms and give him human physical characteristics although he’s in no way like that. In fact, to think of him as something so beyond us is actually quite terrifying..

And as for your first question on animalistic gods? Historically speaking, it’s because the main monotheistic religions took over the world.

I’m surprised the notion of a non-corporeal god never comes up.

In Christianity, Christ is the G-d-Man, and the representation to humanity of G-d, if you will, G-d in the flesh…the way Christianity claims that G-d was/is able to interrelate on our human level with Him. However in His original form, Christ pre-incarnate was know only as the Word, He and The Father, and The Spirit, are not known as bi-pedal or “human-like” necessarily. The “imago dei” in all of us is self-awareness, consciousness, and the indwelling conscience. It’s not our outside, but all of that ethereal, unverifiable, invisible stuff of us on the “inside”. Hope that helps.

I couldn’t take him seriously because I’d keep thinking, “Mmmm…melted butter.”

Personally, I’d like to picture god as a wise, old Basset Hound.

@tomlin0925: Is your ‘O’ broken?

@tomlin0925 at one time jesus was represented as a lamb in illustrations because he bore the name the Lamb of God. How or why that changed is unclear to me.

@cprevite People of the Jewish faith often refer to god without the “O” for some superstitious reason concerning the impropriety of writing out god’s name. I just wonder how you say G-d while speaking?

@The_Compassionate_Heretic what, you’ve never heard of the Holy Ghost?

I could accept him as a squid. Now as the Burger King man…that’s a different story.

@SirBailey so I guess I’m not the only one that finds that thing creepy?

Some people think God is 26-dimensional and He created the universe and us in His image.

Some physicists might point out that in 26 dimensions the no-ghost theorem predicts that these ghost states have no interaction whatsoever with any other states and hence that they can be ignored leaving a consistent theory. Now doesn’t this sound more fascinating than bipedalism?

Well, since I’m a jelly…why not?

@mattbrowne it might if you would first clarify and elaborate your comment…sounds cool, fascinating, but to most of us i’m sure, is not accessible.

@avalmez – I thought a mildly humorous question deserves a mildly humorous answer.

My point was that both bidpedalism or the ‘multipedalism’ of squids are easily accessible notions of the human mind. Why picture God in such a simple manner? The 26 dimensions are borrowed from bosonic string theory. Can a human picture 26 dimensions? Hardly. Can a human picture God? Almost impossible.

@mattbrowne heh…you…you German you! You pulled a fast one…laughing at myself!

Sorry, I can’t go there with the squid thing.

What does pure information look like? To see that is to see God.

I’ll tell you what it looks like (feels like)...

You know that flashing instance where you connect in humor with a friend, the hearts beat as one, the universe ceases to exist, beyond the visual, a unification has occurred for a fleeting moment… That’s what God looks like. That’s the gesture of pure immaterial information upon you.

The same can be had when connecting with a child lost in the joy of playing or suffering deeply with a friend and their sorrows. Time and space disappear because the essence of eternity has swept you away.