Believe that god is an old man with a white beard?

If you look at the God of Genesis, it is ‘elohiym’, plural of ‘elowahh’. It means ‘gods in the ordinary sense’; deities. Throughout the Bible is the message of a hierarchy, a chain of command. Whenever you have a chain of command, somebody is given orders, which flows down this ‘chain’ to the appropriate individual and questions and reports flow up the chain to a bigwig, the one who ultimately authorizes the orders.

In my extensive research I am not sure if the actual “God”, the Supreme Being, is an actual flesh and bone being or a Spirit. When I think along the lines of a Spirit my thought is that it may be a ‘collective moral code of behavior’, by those that ‘put us here’, similar to ‘the spirit of democracy’.

The reason for this uncertainty is that if it was a flesh and bone being, it could have wiped out the human race and started all over again. But it didn’t, instead it chose to make the best of one setback after another in an ever-worsening situation. For instance, the coupe de grace was when Jacob appropriated Esau’s birthright for a bowl of food (Gen 25: 30-30). Why couldn’t this have been overturned?

In Micah chapter 3, “[1]And I said: Hear, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel! Is it not for you to know justice? – [2] you who hate the good and love the evil,…”

And, Malachi chapter 1, [1] The oracle of the word of the LORD to Israel by Mal’achi. [2] “I have loved you,” says the LORD. But you say, “How hast thou loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” says the LORD. “Yet I have loved Jacob [3] but I have hated Esau;…”

It seems obvious to me that if Esau had retained his birthright, the story of the Bible would have been different.

So, what do I think God looks like? The supreme God I am not sure. The Gods that created the situation where Earth could be inhabited? I think they are similar in appearance to us, with very advanced technology compared to ours.