The god, it would appear, was frequently thought of as the physical progenitor or first father of his people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man... God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.
And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh.
What is the origin of God?
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him.
What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.
Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.
As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.
He was a god, such as men might be, if men were gods.
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