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"Face of God"

That picture on the article - I really feel strongly that we should take it down. Must He be reduced to an image? --Soga 13:44, 7 March 2007 (EST)

I agree. We shouldn't depict God as a human. We then implicate that the image *is* God. And as Soga said, we should not reduce Him to that. --A. Morris 14:01, 7 March 2007 (EST)

I concur.--Zephyr Axiom 16:21, 7 March 2007 (EST)

Okay. So... I guess I'm going to delete it, then. --Soga 20:02, 16 March 2007 (EDT)

Deleting content is generally considered vandalism. Make sure you have administrative approval before taking such action. --Mr. Ashcraft 23:26, 16 March 2007 (EDT)

My apologies. Learn something new every day. :) --Soga 14:25, 20 March 2007 (EDT)

I can understand the reluctance to have God reduced to an image. But Michelangelo's artistic contributions are still worth remembering. Why not move the image down toward the bottom of the page? Better yet, why not create a gallery and put it there? In that way, you're not suggesting that the image really is God, but only that Michelangelo thought of God that way.--Temlakos^Talk 21:21, 13 April 2007 (EDT)

Seems reasonable. --Zephyr Axiom 21:28, 13 April 2007 (EDT)

I concur. --A. Morris ^Talk 12:14, 3 May 2007 (EDT)

I agree. I have another objection: why are we saying that Allah is the same as the God of the Bible? Allah is an evil dictator, never incarnated in the Son, Jesus. Muslims don't even believe he has the same character as the God of the OT. If anything, Allah is the name of the demon that lead Mohamed astray. --Aquatiki 06:00, 16 April 2008 (PDT)

Actually the word Allah was used by Syrian Christians long before Muslims ever adopted it as their own. Correct me if im wrong please. --Tony 13:02, 16 April 2008 (PDT)

I don't know if Syrian Christians used that word or not, but I do know that "Allah" is simply the word "God" in Arabic. It is cognate to the Hebrew "El" (as in El-Shaddai, "God Almighty"). ~ MD "Webster" Otley (talk) 22:17, 16 April 2008 (PDT)

Pardon, it isn't just Syrian Christians but Arab Christians and Jews in general, that used the word Allah for God before Muslims. The fact of Arab Christians using the word has gone unchallenged I believe, Wikipedia even stands for it to some degree. [1] [2] [3] --Tony 10:42, 17 April 2008 (PDT)