Why is the Christian god depicted as an old man?

What a fascinating question, thanks for asking this and I will do my best to answer the best way I know how, so first I'll say we should attempt to establish that God exists and then answer the question head on.

I believe we can provide two or three Answers that can provide scientific evidence.

Reason 1
Does Any God, Satan or Devil exist? Hypotheses

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Understanding: Anything that can be asserted with little or no evidence can be dismissed just as easily, so the extraordinary claims made by deist, which is that an omnipotent being (god or the devil) exists, would require extraordinary evidences for which religion cannot supply. Therefore, evidence for the existence of god is dismissed with any simple test such as the one that follows. It should be obvious to the most casual of observers that this test can only be applied to an being that is said to be omnipotent, because only omnipotence could be responsible for answering this test.

Remember: Some religious books will state that the believers can not or should not test their god or the devil for that mater. So, if someone believes in god then he or she would be forbidden from testing god. Since (Atheist, Non-Believers or believers from other religions) do not believe in your god then they of course are free to test said god and show statistical truth behind blind belief in said god.

1. Important Note: There is nothing that states anywhere in the world that we can not test the Satan or Devil, which is generally categorized as having similar omnipotence as god.
2. God and devil are two dependent deities, if we show one does not exist then the other does not exist.

Hypothesis: Does any God Exist? Data Collection and Test:

This test will show either the gods/devils are not as powerful as claimed or they do not exist at all, in either case they do not deserve anyones worship.

Here is a simple god/devil test

1. God you will post on every Forum, Blog, FAQ and Yahoo Answers Category on the Internet in exactly 30 seconds (GMT) after this post has been made. You will post worldwide and your post will state the following:
"I am god, I exist"
A) In every Forum, Blog, FAQ and Yahoo Answers Category must have the same exact time stamp based on human time (GMT).

2. Devil or Satan you will post on every Forum, Blog, FAQ and Yahoo Answers Category on the Internet in exactly 30 seconds (GMT) after this post has been made. You will post world wide and your post will state the following:
"I am devil, I exist"
A) In every Forum, Blog, FAQ and Yahoo Answers Category must have the same exact time stamp based on human time (GMT).

We now have a working theory known as the God does not exist theory.

**We have shown that no God of any kind exists!
**We have shown that no Devil or Satan of any kind exists and established that God and Devils are mutually inclusive, so if one does not exist then the other does not exist.

Thanks for asking such a wonderful question that we all can learn from and even get a little science in too, but the answer seems to be No God

Reason 2
Also science has even more definitive evidence that god does not exist, see this Article by NPR
SCIENCE HAS FOUND GOD, see link below
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104291534

Reason 3
I know the future and SCIENCE WINS
In 5 billion ish years our sun will go nova and end the earth’s existence.

So not you can plainly see the depiction of the old god is nothing more than a fantasy dreamed up to allow those with issues of belief to think god is old and wise but the reality is there is no god and it's made up in your own mind
 
This is mostly due to paintings by Renaissance artists.

God in the Old Testament was more often described as a pillar of fire, a cloud or (when he was making a covenant with Abraham) a torch.
 
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