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Line 39: Anthropomorphism has cropped up as a [[Christian heresy]], particularly prominently with [[Audianism]] in third-century Syria, but also fourth-century Egypt and tenth-century Italy.<ref>{{Cite CE1913 \|wstitle=Anthropomorphism \|first=James Joseph \|last=Fox \|volume=1}}</ref> This often was based on a literal interpretation of the [[Genesis creation myth]]: "So God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them".<ref name="1728Cyclopedia">{{1728\|title=Anthropomorphite\|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=turn&entity=HistSciTech.Cyclopaedia01.p0147&id=HistSciTech.Cyclopaedia01&isize=L\|no-prescript=1}}</ref> [[Hindus]] do not reject the concept of a deity in the abstract unmanifested, but note practical problems. The ''[[Bhagavad Gita\|]]''~~Bhagavad Gita'']]~~, Chapter 12, Verse 5, states that it is much more difficult for people to focus on a deity that is [[Nirguna\|unmanifested]] than one with [[Saguna brahman\|form]], remarking on the usage of anthropomorphic [[Icon\|icons]] ([[Murti\|murtis]]) that adherents can perceive with their senses.<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Fowler \|first=Jeanne D. \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RmGKHu20hA0C&q=Hinduism+murtis+shiva+linga&pg=PA42 \|title=Hinduism: Beliefs and Practices \|publisher=Sussex Academic Press \|year=1997 \|isbn=978-1898723608 \|pages=42–43}}{{Dead link\|date=June 2023\|bot=InternetArchiveBot\|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book \|last=Narayan \|first=M. K. V. \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ewRfp4qpvt4C&q=Hinduism+murtis+saligrama&pg=PA84 \|title=Flipside of Hindu Symbolism \|publisher=Fultus \|year=2007 \|isbn=978-1596821170 \|pages=84–85 \|access-date=8 November 2020 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210813203006/https://books.google.com/books?id=ewRfp4qpvt4C&q=Hinduism+murtis+saligrama&pg=PA84 \|archive-date=13 August 2021 \|url-status=live}}</ref> ===Criticism===

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