Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» This never occurred to me before but it did today so I'm sharing. Why is GOD always depicted as old and gray? GOD doesn't age right?
Again..when a question is asked about God....the answer comes from the Bible. The inspired Word of God. Even if it were not....the people creating the depiction of God would use the description in Bible.
Once again, the Bible was not written by God, it was written by man. Using the description of God in the Bible would be the depiction MAN assigned to him. The first man who wrote about God would have had no Bible to reference, so unless you're saying that God personally described himself to the first man to write about him in the Bible, no one could know what God looked like.
Again....she asked why is God always depicted as old and gray. The Bible says HE has white hair.
She did not ask how did the Bible writters come up with a description of God.
Not sure why this is so hard to understand. People who are making a picture (depiction) of God would naturally use the description from the Bible. Most non-believers would not make an image of God. And a believer would go to the Bible as a source of information.
Again, since the Bible was written by a human being who couldn't possibly have known what God looked like, how could they describe him in the Bible which means that the Biblical description people use today of God cannot possibly be correct. Why is THAT so hard to understand?
I feel as though I'm talking to a stone and I have to stop this. You just don't get it, do you?
The topic is why do people depict God as old and grey? Again they answer is because the Bible says God is white headed.
It states this in Deuteronomy. A book written in the 700BC...some believe oldee than that during 1400BC.
Jewish people did not believe in creating an image of God. So it was Christians who would be making these images. And they would naturally use the Bible as a source.
You seem to want to debate who wrote the Bible and how they came up with their descriptions. Not the topic.
So the Biblical description has been available for min 2700yr or up to 3400yrs.
If the Old Testament (the Jewish Bible) did not describe God, how could the Christians creating the New Testament refer to the Bible for a description of God? There is no logic to your argument. I'm not debating who wrote the Bible - it was written by humans, not by God. How Christians came up with their description of God is exactly the topic and I'm telling you that Christians couldn't have used the Bible to describe God because the basis for the New Testament is the Old Testament where there is no physical description of God. Therefore, Christians made up what they thought God looked like. If they went by the Old Testament, then God would be a burning bush. NOW, do you understand?
Just because you are unaware of a verse in the Bible/Torah does not mean it does not exist.
Dan 7:9 "As I looked, thrones were placed, and the Ancient of Days took his seat; his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of His head like pure wool; His throne was fiery flames; its wheels were burning fire."
(I need to correct the verse is in Daniel not Deuteronomy)
The Bible (OT or NT) does not have images (pictures)..... I do not understand why you keep going back to the writers of the Bible. They did not make images of God etc.
The other reference to White Hair in Revelation. (written late first century AD so 1900 yrs ago)
Rev 1:14 14 The hairon his head waswhite like wool, as white as snow, and his eyes were like blazing fire.
The entire Bible both OT and NT is written by Jewish people...with a possible exception of Luke.
"How Christians came up with their description of God is exactly the topic"......it came from the book of Daniel written in 200BC. (2200 yrs ago) and the book of Rev.
The writers of Daniel and Revelations were prophets. They wrote of their visions. Daniel has prophecies that he wrote which came to pass hundreds of years later. Some approx 2000 yrs later.
I just answered you, they were prophets and recording their prophecies.
You can choose to believe or choose not to believe. But I have answered. More than once....Christians who are making an image of God are using the the description from the Bible. The 2 writers from the Bible were recording their prophecies.
This post was edited by my2cents at May 27, 2021 5:51 AM MDT
You can't describe something you can't have seen. It would be like me trying to describe what you look like when I have never met or seen you or a photo of you. Why is that so difficult for you to understand?
They had a prophetic vision. As I said you can choose to disbelieve God's prophet Daniel if you want. I have answered this over and over....you don't like my answer. It will not change my answer. 1. Prophets (Daniel in the OT and John in the NT) of God had prophetic visions and recorded them. 2. Others after them would have used the decription in the Bible to make their depictions of God.
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