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Can God be abstract

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13y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019
A:God has been many things over the centuries, so I am sure he can be whatever you wish to define him as. We see in the Book of Genesis that God walked and talked to Adam, understood by the early Israelites to be so similar to ordinary humans. In the story of the Exodus, we see that he rode in the mercy seat mounted on top of the Ark of the Covenant. Archaeologists have found many early Hebrew artefacts that depict God in different ways but in human form just like any other Near Eastern god. By the late monarchy the Jews had apparently ceased depicting God in physical form, although a post-Exilic Jewish coin, now held in the British Museum, once again depicts a divinity that can only have been God.

In one sense, something is abstract if it is not concrete, and perhaps we can use this term to describe the supernatural or the spiritual. In another sense, something is abstract if it exists in thought rather than in reality. The way in which the perception of God has changed over time suggests that he really is abstract in this sense.

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