Restoring the Ancient Church Quotes

“Origen rejected anthropomorphism, not because the scriptures or unanimous Christian tradition specifically rejected it, but because the philosophers "despised" it:  "The Jews indeed, but also some of our people, supposed that God should be understood as a man, that is, adorned with human members and human appearance.  But the philosophers despise these stories as fabulous and formed in the likeness of poetic fictions.”
― Barry Robert Bickmore, Restoring the Ancient Church: Joseph Smith and Early Christianity