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I'm not sure about that; do many Christians actually personify God? You're not really meant to.

(Back vaguely to the topic, that's a big difference for Ishtar; she would have been thought about far more in terms of being a _person_ than the Abrahamic God).

The art thing is a bit of an oddity, arguably; Christians didn't really depict God in art at all much until the Renaissance, and many Protestants in particular objected, and sometimes still object, to it. The art has no theological significance in any case (it's obviously not canonical) but yeah, it may have reinforced the idea of God as a _person_ in peoples' minds.