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ANTHROPOMORPHISM

God symbolized in human form

• Exodus 15:3; Numbers 12:8 (cf. Deuteronomy 4:12, 15-18; Job 9:32; Isaiah 55:8-9; John 4:24)

God symbolized with human bodily parts

• Genesis 3:8; Exodus 15:8; 24:10-11; Numbers 12:8; Deuteronomy 7:19; 8:3 (cf. Matthew 4:4); Joshua 4:24; Isaiah 53:1; 59:1-2; Hosea 11:8; Luke 1:51; Acts 13:22; 1 Peter 3:12

God symbolized with human characteristics and emotions (i.e., anthropopathism)

• Genesis 2:2; 6:6; Exodus 20:5; Hosea 11:8; Ephesians 4:30

God symbolized in non-human form

• Ruth 2:12; Psalms 91:4

This topic is from the Lockman Foundation.

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