If I asked to you to draw God, what on Earth would you draw?

If I gave you a sheet of A4 paper and asked you to draw a picture of "God", how would you decide to fill the page? Would you sketch a wise-looking white old man with a long beard sitting on a cloud, or perhaps a Crucifix, a Burning Bush, someone showing compassion...or would you leave the page blank?

The first line of the most well-known prayer in Christianity "Our Father" suggests that 'God' has human characteristics and looks rather like the stereotypical Dad. But don't you think this is a rather childish idea; could we possibly believe that there is a little man 'up there' (wherever 'there' is) who has been sat on a cloud for eternity? This little human-like figure had the capacity to suddenly appear billions of years ago and then create a Universe - perhaps many more - oversee billions of years of evolution, watch the every move of the seven billion humans who walk the Earth today, answer their prayers, welcome thousands of others through the gates of heaven...and also have the time to do human-like things such as eat, sleep and go to the toilet.

What Google Images thinks God looks like. A little stereotypical, perhaps?

Perhaps it's worth asking yourself: What does "God" look like? Is 'He' really a "He", or is this just an outdated, childish idea created by Homo Sapiens of the past who also believed the World was flat and that the Sun revolved around the World? Or is God something greater, is God something capable of creating a Universe (I know there are some incredibly intelligent and powerful people in the World, but creating an entire Universe may be a bit much even for them...) But what IS that something greater? A giant monster? Is God a spirit, whatever a 'spirit' may be? Or is God a force, perhaps like Gravity?

Perhaps God only exists in the Human Consciousness, and "He" can only be seen in the eyes and smiles of the kind and compassionate people we meet in our everyday lives.

So sit down, take a piece of A4 paper, and draw God. And please don't draw an old man sat on a cloud. When you really think about how a Universe Creating, All Powerful, All Loving, All Knowing All Doing God might look, the idea of drawing "Him" is a lot harder than you may have first assumed...