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What did I type into Google to get these results?
God!!
Word association
• Write down as many words that spring to your mind when you think of these things:
FALKIRK
SCOTLAND
THE X FACTOR
• On a new page in your jotter- make a spider diagram – write as many words that you can think of that are associated with the word ‘GOD’
God?
GOD
HeavenBeard
Throne
All Powerful
Prayers
Church
Up above us
Bible
Miracles
Old Man
Made the universe
Jesus
Devil Angels
Today we will:• look at what we
understand about the idea of God.
• Consider how people over the world and time have imagined God.
What does God look like?
Write down as many ‘images’ of God that you can think of. (2 minutes)
On your show me board draw a picture of what you thought that God looked like when you were 5
God?
Picturing God
• Old man in the clouds?
• White clothes?• Crown?• Giant?• beard?• a throne?
Task: With a partner, write down why you think people always picture God with each of these descriptions. Why does He have white clothes? etc
Has anyone here seen God?
• Then how can we describe what he looks like?
• If an alien came to earth, and asked you to describe what God is, what would you tell them?
What is a god?
• Discuss with the person next to you...
• Creator?• Life giver• Protector• Powerful• Immortal• Pure• Wise
What is a symbol?
Ancient ideas and pictures of gods
• Thor, Isis, Re, Yahweh, Apollo, Diana, Zeus, Baal, Freyr....etc
If God had a name….
Watch the video clip and summarise what it wants people to think about.
Choose two of the examples below and write what you think it really means.
He has kicked the bucket
Dan eats like a horse
John’s a right old pig
Pat is a pain in the neck
WORDS AS PICTURES
COPY INTO JOTTER
Often people use words as pictures. They say things that shouldn’t be taken literally – instead they are trying to paint a picture to get a point across.
TASK THREE: COPY INTO JOTTER
God is really hard to understand, so people use symbolic language to
talk about God and to help us understand more about his
character, personality and nature.
Picturing God – Words as pictures
• Old man in the clouds?• A Man• White clothes?• Crown?• Giant?• beard?• a throne?
• What do these symbolise?
GOD
Match the symbols with their meanings
SYMBOLS MEANINGSMan ruler of life
Up in the sky old and wise
White hair and beard pure and holy
White robe powerful
Crown and throne more important than anything else
Think…
• If someone said to you ‘Where is God?’
• What would your first reaction be?
Why do people point to the sky?
• Do they really believe that God is in the clouds?
How did people picture the world thousands of years ago?
Heaven
Earth
Hell
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2
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But really
God as magical rescuer?• Some people
treat God as though He were a rescuer.
• When they are in trouble, they shout out to God for help.
• For the rest of the time they ignore Him.
God as a policeman in the sky?
• God can also be seen as an all seeing policeman.
• It’s a matter of being good. If you’re not good, you will be punished!
God as an old man in the sky?
• Some people believe that ’He’s up there somewhere’.
• They believe that He must be old as He has been around since the beginning of time.
• This poses a couple of questions:
• Is God a person? • How can that be?• Why do we think of
God as a person, and more specifically as a ‘He’?
God as a powerful force?
• Because you cannot see God, some people believe that it is a force.
• They describe this force as a wind.
• You only know that God exists by the effect that God has – like the wind on waves of the sea.
TASK
• Read pg 5-12 in the Looking for God comic book.