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  • The best answer is to read your Bible and find out for yourself. This might help you get started: http://www.watchtower.org/e/bh/article_01.htm
  • SHORT ANSWER: According to Joseph Smith since God is a spirit we don't know what He looks like nor how to describe Him. LONG ANSWER: Well Whew since I know that you're a Latter-day Saint I'm sure that you must surely be looking for what Joseph Smith said to the School of the Prophets (and then later published in Doctrine & Covenants) on this matter so here it is: "There are two personages who constitute the great, matchless, governing and supreme power over all things--by whom all things were created and made, that are created and made, whether visible or invisible: whether in heaven, on earth, or in the earth, under the earth, or throughout the immensity of space--They are the Father and the Son: The Father being a personage of spirit, glory and power: possessing all perfection and fulness: The Son, who was in the bosom of the Father, a personage of tabernacle, made, or fashioned like unto man, or being in the form and likeness of man, or, rather, man was formed after his likeness, and in his image;--he is also the express image and likeness of the personage of the Father: possessing all the fulness of the Father, or, the same fulness with the Father; being begotten of him, and was ordained from before the foundation of the world to be a propitiation for the sins of all those who should believe on his name, and is called the Son because of the flesh--and descended in suffering below that which man can suffer, or, in other words, suffered greater sufferings, and was exposed to more powerful contradictions than any man can be. But notwithstanding all this, he kept the law of God, and remained without sin: Showing thereby that it is in the power of man to keep the law and remain also without sin. And also, that by him a righteous judgment might come upon all flesh, and that all who walk not in the law of God, may justly be condemned by the law, and have no excuse for their sins. And he being the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, and having overcome, received a fulness of the glory of the Father-possessing the same mind with the Father, which mind is the Holy Spirit, that bears record of the Father and the Son, and these three are one, or in other words, these three constitute the great, matchless, governing and supreme power over all things: by whom all things were created and made, that were created and made: and these three constitute the Godhead, and are one: The Father and the Son possessing the same mind, the same wisdom, glory, power and fulness: Filling all in all--the Son being filled with the fulness of the Mind, glory and power, or, in other words, the Spirit, glory and power of the Father--possessing all knowledge and glory, and the same kingdom: sitting at the right hand of power, in the express image and likeness of the Father--a Mediator for man--being filled with the fulness of the Mind of the Father, or, in other words, the Spirit of the Father: which Spirit is shed forth upon all who believe on his name and keep his commandments: and all those who keep his commandments shall grow up from grace to grace, and become heirs of the heavenly kingdom, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ; possessing the same mind, being transformed into the same image or likeness, even the express image of him who fills all in all: being filled with the fulness of his glory, and become one in him, even as the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one." ("Doctrine & Covenants (pre-1921 edition)", Lectures on Faith, Section 5; pp. 53&54; http://www.mormonbeliefs.com/lectures_on_faith.htm; http://www.rickgrunder.com/BooksForSale/dc35m/dc35m53.jpg) (obviously they didn't believe in paragraphing back in 1835 - so I've added them to make the text legible. Hey, maybe that where you learned your lack of paragraphing from Whew - you were just born in the wrong Century!) ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: http://www.utlm.org/onlineresources/lecturesonfaith.htm http://vintage.aomin.org/ldstheology.html http://www.rickgrunder.com/BooksForSale/dc35m/dc35m.htm
  • If I went to church, and believed in God I think maybe he would look like the rock -n- roll version of Jesus only with white hair and a white beard.
  • SHORT ANSWER: Bibically sound Theology rejects the idea that God's physical image can be - or SHOULD BE - described since the Bible is clear that "God is a spirit". Even the physical appearance of incarnated God the Son is NOT described anywhere in the Bible, it is believed, for this reason. LONG ANSWER AND EXPOSE' OF THE QUESTIONER'S INTENT: THE ANSWER THAT THE QUESTIONER IS LOOKING FOR . . . Let's right to the chase and give the answer the questioner is looking for. It can be found in Joseph Smith's King Follett discourse: "God himself, who sits enthroned in yonder heaven, is a man like one of you. That is the great secret. If the veil were rent today and you were to see the great God who holds this world in its orbit and upholds all things by his power, you would see him in the image and very form of a man; for Adam was created in the very fashion and image of God. He received instruction from and walked, talked, and conversed with him as one man talks and communes with another." http://mldb.byu.edu/follett.htm So the answer that I strongly suspect that "LdS Dogma Spew Whew" is looking for is: "the very form of a man like you or I". WHY THE LDS DOGMA THAT GOD IS A MAN LIKE YOU OR I CONTRADICTS BOTH THE BIBLE AND JUDEO-CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY: 1) The Bible does NOT give a physical description of God since it is clear that God is a unique spiritual being. Ironically this is the stance that Mormon founder Joseph Smith originally took in his "School of the Prophets" Lectures on Faith: “We shall, in this lecture speak of the Godhead: we mean the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. There are two personages who constitute the great, matchless, governing and supreme power over all things….They are the Father and the Son: The Father being a personage of spirit... The Son, who was in the bosom of the Father, is a personage of tabernacle…And he being the only begotten of the Father...received a fulness of the glory of the Father—possessing the same mind with the Father, which mind is the Holy Spirit.” —Doctrine and Covenants, 1935 edition, Lectures Fifth of Faith, Section V, p. 52-53 2) Biblical language speaking of the "image and likeness" of God in passages like . . . Genesis 1:26-27 (King James Version) 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. -AND- Colossians 1:15 (New International Version) 15 He [Jesus Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. . . . when read in their full context and the original languages refer to the vested authority and jurisidictional representation of of God NOT A PHYSICAL REPRESENTATION. 3) Biblical language referring to God anthropormorphically (as having a face, arm, hand, or other body part) is an indication of a theophany (an appearance of God in human form), figurative language, or apocalyptic visionary imagery is not intended to depict reality. 4) The incarnation of Christ does not establish a pattern indicating that God the Father was once incarnate. 5) The following passages REFUTE the LdS Theology of divine embodiment and can only be gotten around by adding words and concepts not present in the text or within the socio-historical context that they were written in: Numbers 23:19 (King James Version) 19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent... Hosea 11:9 (King James Version) ... I am God, and not man; the Holy One in the midst of thee... John 4:24 (King James Version) God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. And despite LdS Apologist effort to spin doctor around these texts they are quite clear: God is NOT a man, or LIKE man. 6) The record of secular history, as presented by the most reliable ancient historians (Josephus and Tacitus, among others), indicates that the Jewish concept of God has always been the same and was no different in terms of divine embodiment than the Christian concept of God. No historical proof exists that Greek Philosophy corrupted the Judeo-Christian concept of God. (compiled and expanded on from James Patrick Holding's superb book "The Mormon Defenders" p. 34; http://www.amazon.com/Mormon-Defenders-James-Patrick-Holding/dp/0970906307/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252978129&sr=8-2#reader)
  • 1. Say: He is God, the One and Only; 2. God, the Eternal, Absolute; 3. He begetteth not, nor is He begotten; 4. And there is none like unto Him. HQ 112 "(He is) the Creator of the heavens and the earth: He has made for you pairs from among yourselves, and pairs among cattle: by this means does He multiply you: THERE IS NOTHING WHATEVER LIKE UNTO HIM, and He is the One that hears and sees (all things)" HQ 42:11
  • "what looked like a throne of sapphire, and high above on the throne was a figure like that of a man. I saw that from what appeared to be his waist up he looked like glowing metal, as if full of fire, and that from there down he looked like fire; and brilliant light surrounded him. Like the appearance of a rainbow in the clouds on a rainy day, so was the radiance around him. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD. " This is what is written by the prophet Ezekiel.+2 ps I am not a LDS I am a follower of Jesus Christ
  • 'God is Spirit' and so His appearance is not like anything we can describe, meaning He is invisible (John 1:18; 4:24).
  • Hmm! Mine doesent know him that intimately
  • my church never told us what he looks like
  • John 1:18 says that man has seen God.

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