Excuse me, but.....

[Ice.Maiden]

I've often wondered about this. If god made man in his own image, then I suppose it follows that He looks like us? Do you think this goes for the devil/satan as well? What are your thoughts?

[Gromit]

I may be on dodgy ground here, but isn't the devil jesus' brother or something?

Anyhow, to cut a long story shot a Paul Burrell.

[China Doll]

Satan in my eyes

Satan was the most favoured of all the angels Gromit but he disagreed with God over how God treated humans, he had pity on them and because he spoke up he became the anti-christ. Such is my understanding anyway, it's probably morecomplex than that.

[Ice.Maiden]

Lol Gromit - I meant that as quite a serious question - but I don't think the devil was Jesus's brother! Wasn't/isn't he a fallen angel?
Not Paul Burrell either...or Ozzie Osborne....but then again, being a master of disguise.....
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What do you reckon???

[Gromit]

Thanks China Doll.

Doesn't sound like Paul Burrell though, so I may have to check that tomorrow

[dawill]

The Mormons teach that Satan is Jesus brother. Christians teach that Satan is a fallen angel. He is supposed to have been jealous of mans relationship with God. Therefore decided to turn them from God.
The anti-Christ is said to a human world leader who will come to prominence during the "end times" who will lead the world against Christ and his followers.

[Ice.Maiden]

Thanks for that dawill - I have absolutely no idea about Mormon teachings, so that bit's taught me something.

[China Doll]

I knew it would be more complex. Thanks dawill.

[Ice.Maiden]

Does that mean then, that according to Mormon beliefs, no devil existed before Jesus was born?

[Gromit]

and I thought those nice young men in suits who came to my door were coca-cola salesmen, and now I find I have been indoctrinated with rubbish about the Devil being Jesus' brother!

[Ice.Maiden]

Or shall I say before Jesus's brother was born?
Seems strange, because before Christianity, people believed not only in various gods, but in evil ones as well. Was this not their way of interpreting Satan?

[Ice.Maiden]

Lol Gromit! Those nice young men don't come to my door any more. It must be the Pagan signs that put them off.....

Seriously now - it still doesn't answer the question of what the devil's supposed to look like. If he's jesus's brother - how is he recognised??

[Gromit]

He's the one withot the scars on his wrists and ankles.

Since the the visit of the coca-cola salesmen, I have noticed my wage has been down 10% each month, and that I have a directvdebit going out to a Mr. sonny Osmond?

[Ice.Maiden]

Give over!!!! If I hadn't meant this to be a serious question, I'd be falling off my chair with laughter by now! Mwhahaha.

[naomi24]

If God did make man, then he made him in his image - and not only in his physical image - since according to the evidence, God's personality encompasses all the very worst characteristics of man.

I don't believe in the biblical God, or in Satan, but in seeking evidence of God's supposedly good works, and of his great love for mankind, both appear to be non-existent. This leads me to wonder if God is really Satan and vice versa. Satan is reputed to deceive - and what greater deceit could there be? And all it takes is a change of name. A bit like a spiritual Rory Bremner!

[Theland1]

Cough! Splutter!

[naomi24]

Thump, thump. Cough drop, dear?

[Octavius]

No no no, you all have it very wrong indeed.
God made man in his own image, that man was Adam. For the proponents of the insular view that Adam was one man, can anyone here say for sure what Adam looked like? Perhaps the rest of us fell from the ugly tree. If you believe that �man� is humankind then the image of God is ubique and unique.

�But here, where his living image, like him within and without, made by his own bare hands out of the depth of divine artistry, his masterpiece of self portraiture coming forth from his workshop to delight all worlds, walked and spoke, it could never be taken for more than an image. Nay, the very beauty of it lay in the certainty that it was a copy, like and not the same, a rhyme, an exquisite reverberation of untreated music prolonged in a created medium�

The devil is a different creature that has many faces and the dastardly evil one has the power to assume many forms. Throughout centuries, this has taken a form that we almost always remember � so the devious little git, needs to change appearance again and again. In days of old it might have been Herod, or Genghis, or Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot etc. Today it is abundantly clear for the whole world to see, the current incarnation of that foulest of unearthly beasts�..

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[Lonnie]

To follow on from naomi's answer, and like her, I have no belief in the Biblical God, But,

If there really is one, and i've said it before, God and the Devil are one and the same.

One entity, that has put us here for his own amusement.