Why Does The Bible Describe God In Human Terms?

Since "God is a Spirit," we cannot see him with our physical eyes. (John 4:24) The Bible therefore uses figures of speech, such as smiles, metaphors and anthropomorphisms to help us comprehend God's might, majesty, and activities. Anthropomorphism (Greek, "manform") is the attributing of human characteristics to a nonhuman subject. So even though we do not know what God's spirit body looks like, the Bible speaks of God as having eyes, ears, hands, arms,fingers, feet and a heart. - Genesis 8:21; Exodus 3:20; 31:18; Job 40:9; Psalm 18:9; 34:15. Such descriptive language does not mean that God's spirit body has the same kind of members that human bodies have. Anthropomorphisms are not to be taken literally. They merely help humans to have a better understanding of God. Without such figures of speech, it would be difficult, if not imposssible, for any of God to be comprehensible to mere humans. However, that does not mean that Jehovah God's personality has been fabricated by humans. The Bible clearly explains that man was created in God's image - not God in man's image. (Genesis 1:27) Because Bible writers are "inspired of God," their depiction of God's personality is in reality his own description of his personal qualities -the very qualities that he has implanted to varying degrees in his human creation. (2 Timothy 3:16, 17) Rather than being man's qualities in God they are really God's qualities in man.