God in Christianity

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>>1813698
They do?

>>1813698
>as being a giant human with a big beard?
He's modeled after the golden Zeus statue of Phidias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Zeus_at_Olympia

>>1813739
So? He disproved OP's claim.
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Islam is a death cult.

>>1813698
>Why is God in Christianity portrayed as being a giant human with a big beard?

He isn't. Secular painters paint God that way but it is part of the tradition that God is nothing like that actually.

>>1813698
fatherly figure

>>1813698
shorthand representation of the fatherly love an incomprehensible omnipotent supernatural being can show for His creation. It's better to find out that God looks like a million 4-dimenssional tesseract cthulhus spinning around phasing in and out of reality or something AFTER your soul has entered heaven rather than during life when it can erase you from existence

>>1813720

Ah the Yehud, it's interesting that this piece dates to around the Persian times when they were in Israel. Any iconography backed before this were abstract images on walls, coins and seals compared to the ancient near east. In fact just as they believed they were not meant to make any image of him.

>>1813698
Better question, why is he universally portrayed as a man and referred to as a "he" despite the fact that there is nothing specifically male about him, with the arguable exception of being the "father" (though not actually via sex) of Jesus?

>>1814493
>as a man and referred to as a "he" despite the fact that there is nothing specifically male about him

The Hebrew word for YHWH and God are masculine, hence the reason why.