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'What Does God Really Look Like?'
By: Gina Dalfonzo|Published: November 10, 2010 9:20 AM
"Say what you will about her logic, but her Jesus, and by extension, her God, had to be the opposite of everything -- including color -- of the pain she'd experienced her entire life."
. Which is code for there is no visible analogy capable of depicting the utter pleasure that will wash over us when we at last “see” God.
As for God in Jesus, others have noted that He was a perfect blend of all the skin-colors of mankind, and most likely deliberately so in order to signify to us that outward adornments have nothing to do with the inner reality, and that all people are equally precious to Him.
As for God the Father, I tend to think that when we finally “see” Him, that “sight” will correspond to what is meant when we say, “Oh, I *see* what you’re saying.” That is, our “sight” will consist of perfect “knowledge” of what He is really like in all His unfiltered glory.
I think we will not merely see with our eyes this wonderful Person of ravishing beauty and grace and power and goodness and love. I think we will also “know” with startling certainty and scarce-containable joy that we now at last understand everything about His love, acceptance, and affection for us that could possibly be known.
The beatific vision, I believe, will be more than just the physical sight of all we ever wanted. It will be the perfect conscious awareness and unshakable assurance that, literally, it isn’t even possible for anything to get any better than this.
I don’t know -- Maybe John Denver nailed the language when, in a moment of misdirected but nonetheless lucid theological insight, he spoke the exclamation we shall make at the sight of the invisible God made visible: “You fill up my senses!”
Posted By: Rolley Haggard on November 10, 2010 11:49 AM
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Which is code for there is no visible analogy capable of depicting the utter pleasure that will wash over us when we at last “see” God.
As for God in Jesus, others have noted that He was a perfect blend of all the skin-colors of mankind, and most likely deliberately so in order to signify to us that outward adornments have nothing to do with the inner reality, and that all people are equally precious to Him.
As for God the Father, I tend to think that when we finally “see” Him, that “sight” will correspond to what is meant when we say, “Oh, I *see* what you’re saying.” That is, our “sight” will consist of perfect “knowledge” of what He is really like in all His unfiltered glory.
I think we will not merely see with our eyes this wonderful Person of ravishing beauty and grace and power and goodness and love. I think we will also “know” with startling certainty and scarce-containable joy that we now at last understand everything about His love, acceptance, and affection for us that could possibly be known.
The beatific vision, I believe, will be more than just the physical sight of all we ever wanted. It will be the perfect conscious awareness and unshakable assurance that, literally, it isn’t even possible for anything to get any better than this.
I don’t know -- Maybe John Denver nailed the language when, in a moment of misdirected but nonetheless lucid theological insight, he spoke the exclamation we shall make at the sight of the invisible God made visible: “You fill up my senses!”