An idea from Guide for the Perplexed

When scripture gives God a hand, an eye or a throne, it is using figures. Being made in God’s image means having a mind, not a face. “The Torah speaks according to the language of man,” so that ordinary people can grasp that God exists and acts.

From Guide for the Perplexed by Moses Maimonides

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