Why is it that so many christians claim to have seen god but cannot create a picture of him?

Question

Why is it that so many christians claim to have seen god but cannot create a picture of him?

Answer 1

GOD is good. Belive in GOD because he exists..

Answer 2

The same reason that you cannot create a picture of your heart beat.

Answer 3

Christian, or anyone else for that matter, have never "seen" God.

Answer 4

Take a look inside a Catholic Church his Image is every where, It is the Image of our Lord Jesus.

Answer 5

No Christian claims to have seen God face to face.  Many have seen Jesus though.  He was shining so bright they couldn't look at his face so how would they draw a picture of that?  He was just a figure of bright dazzling white.

Answer 6

I've read a theory that says monotheism was developed by people who were more attuned to the predominantly left hemisphere of their brain at the expense of their holistic creative right side.

The dominance of the left side of the brain in monotheistic culture contributed to the abhorrence of images that were created by the the right side of the brain. Even to the point of making a commandment  that said  there shall be no images made of anything in heaven or on earth.

Unlike pagans, monotheists are not allowed to create a image of God. So seeing him would give them a picture  and would pretty much contradict his commandment.

Answer 7

Because no man has ever seen God and lived, for he is a spirit.

His Glory is great and powerful, no man can see or touch him.

Is God a real person?

Heb. 9:24: "Christ entered...into heaven itself,now to appear before the person of God for us."

John 7:24: "God is a spirit."

John 7:28: "He that sent me is real,"said Jesus.

1 Cor. 15:44: "If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one."

Let me ask this: Are these people being decieved by Satan?  This is what sounds to me is the case.

Cause if you read these Scriptures and they should also, then can they say truely that they have seen God? No! I don't think so!

Answer 8

cuz they were obvo on drugs at the time!

Answer 9

Simply because God is a Golden Spirit, perceived intuitively by the senses ...

Answer 10

Christians are lousy artists.

Answer 11

John 1:18 No man hath seen God at any time, the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.

Answer 12

They were hallucinating at the time.

Answer 13

Probably because he was a glow light that they 'thought' was the outline of him, haha.

Answer 14

I dont think that it is important the way he looks like. He is awesome God. God is spirit. Have child like faith He say!! Dont try and understand everything with the mind.

Answer 15

God's glory & beauty is shouting down at us from the stars.

The hubble telescoope has pictures reminds us how small we are in the universe.

Look up at the sky tonight...what do you see?  Or google pictures of the innumerable galaxies...

Blessings to you

Answer 16

Because I can't get the picture of the monkey I was told I evolved from out of my mind.