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Exactly. I'm not sure where the view emanates from that God is physically human. Anyone know the source?
I know Joseph Smith claimed to have seen a physical being when he described his encounter with God. But I'm sure the idea existed long before that. I know the Greeks and Romans believed their gods had physical bodies.
Exactly. I'm not sure where the view emanates from that God is physically human. Anyone know the source?
Just my guess.
I suspect it has to do with people feeling a need to have a physical object to worship. Although, all 4 of the Abrahamic religions forbid worshiping images, some folks still do.
You've evidently never seen the Filipinos honoring the black Christ or the Black Madonna's venerated by Catholic Europeans, nor the artistic images in Catholicism (and Catholic mysticism) of God symbolically represented, chromatically through the colors white and black.
Catholic mystics have for a long time understood God through the black, the night, the "negation," the unknowing, the sorrow, the road to being lost and feeling utterly alone. The black.
And colors are used throughout the Catholic liturgical season representing different things. Red evidently, usually, means or represents blood or martyrdom. Actually, Catholic priests typically are uniformed in all black with a white Roman collar. All the colors mean something. But needless to say... the black attire of the Catholic parish priest is symbolically associated with God through his priestly office.
If a religion can't agree on what colour their 'God' is, I despair.
Since the historic account of Adam and Eve is not a metaphor, but an historic account of Adam, who is in Christ's genealogy, and since, historically speaking, he originally lived near Babylon before Eve ate them out of house and home, he would not be African.
If you can't agree on something basic as what colour your God is, then how can anyone take anything else you say serious?
I don't care if he is was white, black, pink, blue or green, but at least if you all agreed he was blue, you'd have a chance of people believing you.
The Bible doesn't really say what color of skin Jesus had. Anyone that thinks Christianity is based on the skin color of Jesus doesn't understand what Christianity is about, and I would say they're probably not within the faith.
Since Adam and Eve were the first persons on Earth and humans came from Africa it stands to reason they were black.
Yes, I definitely believe the first humans had black skin,
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