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non of us can claim to have seen God so we have no clear way of interpreting God's image. The only person who might be able to tell us how God looks is Adam and Moses but unfortunately non of them is alive currently. They did even give us a clue of how God looked like; if he is black or white, short or tall, beautiful or ugly amongst many other things that we would like to know. So our interpretation of God's image is subject and as varied to the number of people who live in the world.

My interpretation is drawn mainly from religious texts and from the world around me. I have also relied on God's qualities in order to define my image. Sometimes pictures and dreams have also influenced my image of him including movies. In most cases God is portrayed as a white person dressed in white and having beards. In the movie " Bruce Almighty", God is portrayed as a black person still with the beards and it seems that change didn't affect me much. I wonder if he is also human as portrayed in the movie and wonder how he can be three separate people at the same time. How does God the father look like in respect to God the son or God the Holy Spirit. Do I expect to see three gods instead of one? If that's the case then to which one of them will my interpretation be closest to? I guess that is the mystery of all mysteries something beyond our understanding.

At least I know that God created us in his own image and likeness so he must be something close to a human being. his height,weight, colour, hair type are beyond me to know and therefore believe that each person in the world can use there own body characteristics and apply them to their own image of God. I also know that God the son has been on us and therefore if the paintings of him are anything to go by, then he looked like an ordinary and typical Jew of his time. God in my view can also look like all of us because he is capable of being three separate people at the same time. does that suggest that he is 6 billion images at the same time? that's beyond me.

Therefore my interpretation of God based on the point above is that he looks like me only am a pale image of him in terms of my character. God is all loving, all caring, all knowledgeable and therefore I have the same qualities only in little qauntities. I don't know if that is because he has divided those qualities by the 6 billion people who live on earth or I just don't utilize them enough. May be because I get distracted and start focusing on other things other than his image in me and start sinning and doing wrong. what ever the case at least I know that if I try I can be like him to some extent.

Therefore I image of God is physical and also based on my personal values. I believe that by observing nature I am able to understand God' s image through his creativity displayed in nature. honesty if God created the trees and the mountains the frog and the elephant, the fish and the crocodile, it then follows that his image must be something much more creative than all I have seen. and if that's the case, then truly the image of God must be unfathomable. So I would rather stick to the fact that he looks like me only far much more loving

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