Who or What is God?

I just read in a novel about a character who believes he has to believe that God is so big and mysterious that he is unknowable or else he couldn't believe in him.

Interesting.

It made me wonder what the author believes. I know I've heard people say the same thing at different times.

For me it is just the opposite. If I didn't believe in a God who has a body, whose image and likeness we were created after, everything else would be just a bunch of gibberish.

For me, a father, especially a Heavenly Father, must be someone I can understand. Not that I understand all he knows and understands, just that I can know I came from him.

Do I believe in a wrathful God of destruction? No, I do believe in a God who knows me, understands me, knows what I go through day to day, and wants me to be happy.

Do I believe in a God who makes everything happen so I have to live a certain way?
No. I believe that God guides our lives if we choose to follow. I believe that I have a choice to follow or not follow. I believe I really can choose right or wrong, light or darkness, and he will let me.

If I choose wrong I believe I will reap the consequences, because I believe there is a right and wrong. Sometimes choosing which is which is difficult since sometimes there doesn't seem to be an easy or right choice. But, I believe if we keep trying to always take the best path, keep trying to be good, try to do right, that we'll get back to be with him.

We'll see him as a man, with arms and legs, a body, a face, a mouth that can smile.

I believe he'll smile when he sees us again. I believe he loves us and wants us to do good, be good, good enough to return and live with him again.

He loves us. He loves me.

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If you saw God, what would he look like?

Some people would think this is a weird question because they believe God is some flaming ball of light.

I don't.

I believe that if God was to appear to you that you would recognize him. You know him because you were with Him before you came to this life.

I believe that because He is our Father. He happens to be in heaven, but he is the father of our spirits.

He has a body. We were created in His image.

We can't be in His image if he is a flaming ball of light, or someone who fills the entire universe.

He loves you. He cares what you are doing. Just like any father, He wants to hear from you.

He knows what you need and what you want, but He wants to hear it from you.

If He gave you everything you needed when He knew you needed it, this life wouldn't be much of a test.

Ask Him. He is there.

It's true.