I think that's a good point, Fiftyandfine. How can we possibly describe God, or even conceive of a Being as vast as God Who has always existed and will always exist? and Who made us? and who transcends the time and space that circumscribe our puny 3-dimensional existence? It's like the analogy of the painting never being able to conceive of the painter.

I know that a lot of people picture God as a human being. Does this derive from the notion of God creating humans in the image of God? I've always understood this to mean the spiritual image (capacity to love, trust, nurture, be just, etc.) rather than the physical image of God, and thus have not been hung up on the notion of what God's sex is. If God has a sex, then God must have a counterpart of the opposite sex, which would make two Gods, right?