...be pictured, the God of the Old Testament had no form, no physical existence. John of Damascus says: 'How can the invisible be depicted? How does one picture...paint the bodiless? How can you describe what is a mystery?'14 Yet the Old Testament talks of God walking in the garden with Adam, telling Noah how to...

...incarnation and has traits that thwart the eye. "How can the invisible be depicted?" asks John of Damascus. "How does one picture the inconceivable? How can one...bodiless? How can you describe what is a mystery?" Does the Christian God have a face? The Bible says he made people in his own image, which suggests...

...images reflected an understanding of God which both Jews and Christians shared, and asked rhetorically: 'How can the invisible be depicted? How does one picture...bodiless? How can you describe what is a mystery?' 14 Justification for the prohibition of images may also be found in God's transcendence and the danger...

...discern what may be represented and what is uncircumscript. "You cannot see My form," the Scripture says. What wisdom the Lawgiver has! How can the invisible...bodiless? How can you describe what is a mystery? . . . [But] when the invisible One becomes visible to flesh, you may then draw His likeness. . . ....

...their proneness to idolatry. (. . .) "You cannot see my form (My face)," Scripture says (Exod. 33:2.0). What wisdom the Lawgiver has! How can the invisible...infinite? How can a form be given to the formless? How can you describe a mystery? It is obvious that when you contemplate God becoming man, then you may...