My perception of God stems from an Orthodox synagogue that I attended for Sunday school over the time span of three years in Toledo, Ohio. There, I learned about the “Giving Tree,” that in truth told the story of my parents (the tree) and how they would give the shirt off their backs for me and one day I would sit on their stump to think. L’dor v’dor, “from generation to generation” means that we pass along the importance of life. We continue to learn, evolve, and grow. A young age, a child can be in the presence of an apparent God.
At the age of seven I would pray with my hands together next to the stereo as if I had a direct connection to God. I understood the concept of God as the rosebud for the explosion of the universe, but who created God?! God is infinite and eternal; God is hashem; the name; God is ein sof; without end.
However, once you start to translate all the names of God into English from Hebrew, you can begin to wrap your mind around what and who God actually is. In other words God is Holy, infinite, eternal, without end, and YHVH, or the holy pronunciation of YHVH. This is all God’s genetic code.
God created DNA because God is the creator. God is an atom multiplied infinitely. God is not only the creator, but also the judge for the after life. The first man is Adam. If God created man in God’s image – - why is that so hard to swallow??
We also have opposable thumbs. That is quite divine and the reason why human kind was so easily able to advance. An after-life exists, but not for everyone; only the ones that God chooses; or, truly the chosen ones and not necessarily what we label ourselves as “the chosen ones.”
I think that a tiny miniscule percentage of us have Neanderthal in our genes. I think these people have different attributes than most of us. I believe that God still talks to us; we hear him but we ignore him. Once upon a time, we listened. “God spoke” to so and so. God reflected his image upon us: eyes, nose, and mouth. Yet we can not see the face of God.
Perhaps God looks like a lion because his face is covered with fur. After all, the Lion is the king of the jungle. Do we fear God as we fear a lion?? Fear and love both pervade for the monster that we call God.
Whatever his face is, It is not disturbing; men can have beards and that is not disturbing. This could be something like Beauty and the beast when God can go from lion to man.
Because we were made in God's image, God carries all human senses. Why would not he have eyes?? And even more senses than humans have such as omnipotence. He or she pervades the universe. Clouds could be where the heavens are and their span is even greater that the earth; there maybe perhaps ether in the heavens where souls are contained. Who knows?! when I was seven years old, I was on an airplane and I saw the clouds and said "This is where God lives." Again, the rosebud was God and he And she exploded.