A Usenet persona calling itself Michael Daly wrote:

On 4-Mar-2005, Scott Weiser wrote:

How, exactly, does the Bible "deem" how God manifests himself as
himself?

How about if it _says_ so. Try reading the Bible - it does describe
these things. And nowhere does it say "this is what God looks like".

And does it have to say "this is what God looks like" in order for God to
decide to look like something else? What makes you think that God is
constrained by the words in a book?


Thus, if he "manifests" himself as a man,
or a burning bush, he is manifesting himself as himself.

Once again, you prefer playing with words instead of addressing
the issue directly. If he manifests himself as a man, we cannot
tell it is God. That is exactly my point.

Which is pretty much no point at all.

We need a manifestation
that we can clearly identify as God and the Bible offers nothing
to help that.

What you "need" and what God decides to provide are often two different
things. Do you think you have the authority to compel God to restrict God's
manifestations to appearances that you approve of? How hubric.


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