>atheists actually believe Christians used to think God was a bearded man on a cloud
>used toThey still believe that.
Now where would they get that idea?
>>18131008Enjoy hell.
Why would Christians portray God like that in their art for nothing?
>>18131008A fairly large amount of arguments by Atheists I see here come from a misunderstanding about how Christians view God. They think that for us, God is a mixture of Son Goku and a Magician.
>>18131016>>18131022This is symbolic, anon... this is art.
>>18131008Christians still do believe that. Have fun burning Platoist.
>>18131026>how Christians view God.
>>18131032>No see, they only symbolically depicted him as a man with a beard in the sky, they didn't actually think he was a man with a beard in the sky.
>>18131039>>18131042Medieval paintings had rabbits fighting with swords. Do you think medieval painters believed rabbits were good swordsbunnies or something?
>>18131008The average person in the modern society is so metaphorically dead they could never understand the image of someone being on a cloud simply meaning he is above you.
>>18131049>details in the margins of a book are identical to the ceiling of the Pope's private chapelYou are very smart. Such a smart boy!
>>18131060Do you think the Pope of all people wouldn't understand symbolism?
>>18131008The Bible is extremely clear that God has a real physical form.
*Renaissance artists*
>BUT LOOK AT THIS PAINTING THOUGH>IGNORE WHAT THE PEOPLE WHO MADE SAID PAINTING ACTUALLY SAID ABOUT GODwhy are they like this
>>18131087What did Michelangelo say about God?
>>18131077Why would the Pope need symbolism?
>>18131097>Why would the Pope need symbolism?We share a board with "people" who ask questions like this
>>18131008The Bible says we were made in his image.Why didn't they have an anthropomorphic conception of the godhead?
>>18131008You would be accused of heresy and burned at the stake for believing otherwise
>>18131042that God is not in the sky, he's in a stylized human cranium
Christians don't believe God actually live in the sky, they think he's a made-up story
>>18131092Probably that he'd like to suck his cock.
>>18131032Okay, what is NOT symbolic then
>>18131378This.I know Christians are the real atheists and I'm tired of pretending otherwise
>>18131008If they believe that1. Jesus is literally identical with God2. Jesus was literally resurrected with his material body3. Jesus literally left earth by going up into the sky and into a cloud until his disciples lost sight of himThen that seems like a reasonable inference, and I'm pretty sure that's all the official doctrine.
>>18131008haha OP I love froggo XD
