Originally Posted by Grace Seeker

Look at what you said again. The definition of anthropomorphizing is to attribute human form or personality to things not human. We don't do that. We don't say that God is like us. The arrow flows the other direction. We say that we are created in his image. He is the standard, and in some sense we are created in that image. But you will note that we never say that God is limited by any of the things that humans are limited by. So, obviously it is not that one understand God by understanding humanity, rather it is that one can understand humanity by understanding God.

I know I'll get objections, but I think it is those who project seeing and hearing unto God not as figurative terminology but literal descriptions who are the one's more guilty of anthropomorphizing. While no doubt there are some Christians (and probably Jews too) who fall into this inappropriate way to speak about God, that is not what either religion believes. On the other hand, I find such anthropomorphic views common and defended by Muslims on this board. Now, granted, those who post here are not scholars, so maybe such anthropomorphizing is not any truer of Islam than it is of Christianity, but I see frequently in the suggestion that Muslim make that because Jesus is on the cross that he can't also be God in heaven at the same time. Why not? Unless you are limiting God to having to occupy time and space in the same way that humans do. And that would be anthropomorphizing.