What does God look like?
What does God look like? An impossible question of course. The painter Van Eyck depicted God the Father like this for the altarpiece in Ghent. Superb art. It looks to me like a rather bored bishop or medieval king waiting for the pomp and ceremony to be over before he can go and find something more fun to do. Children often ask what God looks like Parents often reply 'I don't know' or 'what do you think'? A child was once busy drawing. Her mother asked what she was drawing. "I'm drawing a picture of God" the child replied. "But", said her mother, "we can't see God. No-one knows what God looks like". With supreme confidence her daughter responded, "they will know when I've finished my picture". Moses wanted to see God When Moses asked God to be shown God's glory, the response was that Moses would see God's goodness and hear God's name but God told him "...you cannot see my face; for...