An interesting question, Nick, and one that deserves commenting on.
Any conversation about god(s) seems to bring out the atheists, the agnostics, the believers, the skeptics, the seekers, religious minds and philosophers alike. Each of these if asked what the word "god" signifies for them, we'd find just as many viewpoints as there are listed here (and I sure more).
There will be the majority who envision "God" as a male, therefore the common use of "He" (capitalized, of course). Amongst those are the believers and even some agnostics who believe this "God" they envision has hu'man-like features like eyes, a mouth, ears and hands. Why? Their religious books speak of their "God" as one who sees what they are doing, ears what they say, speaks to the faithful and has even written the Bible.
Amongst the atheists these types of qualities ensures complete doubt and furthers their own belief in No God versus God. Afterall when conceptualizing a God that closely resembles that of our own species, the atheist along with the skeptic and even the agnostic must curl their lips and squint their eyes finding it impossible that a God who has created all things actually looks like us. But the true believer easily accepts this as having been written in the Bible itself under Genesis 1:27 (and other areas as well with various descriptions depending upon the author(s) at the time.
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Skeptics have a great time with this as there really is no true consensus on the interpretation of this verse. If there was there would not be so many different interpretations. Even the agnostic's belief is strengthen when this comes up. Who to believe? Afterall aren't we talking about our God who made us and everything else?
This is the common understanding of "God'... a hu'man-like presence who when speaking invokes cherubs in the sky and a beautiful halo surrounding "His" head as "He" is speaking. This is God as the majority understand their God to be. This image is powerfully ingrained in the minds of the true believers and anything another would say to spoil this vision would undoubtedly be an agent of Satan. Years and years of conditioning by the local priests and preachers, the reverends and pastors... those who interpret the Holy Book for the followers who must believe their leaders.
Is it any wonder that the non-believer loves these stories and images? The stories paint these pictures of myths... fantasies, imaginings of super hu'man beings called "gods" like the Romans and Greeks did. A good non-believer takes pride in refuting such fantasies as perilous to their own thinking... the purity of reality and fact-given truths based upon scientific evidence. You'll never convince those believers in science that there is anything to religiosity. The non-believers are just as assured their belief system is the only path just as the true believer is in their path.
However, despite what name we call ourselves regarding a "God" or the "God", it is incumbent upon ourselves to seek out the Truth for it is the Truth (capital 'T') that outlives any and all Gods that we, ourselves have created to bring us comfort and security, no matter how marginal that may be. It's been good enough for our parents and their parents and the parents before them and it is good enough for us.
Is it? Is that all we need... this continuing belief system of God versus No-God, agnostic versus skeptic, believer versus atheist...? After all, it is what WE ourselves envision as a God that makes us believers or non-believers. Our vision is what makes our belief system what it is. Whatever we envision is in our mind... that wondrous tool that has been with us on our journey, our evolution since we became cognizant of being. But despite all that time and effort we've put into being, we still fall short in living a life of awareness. We are still sleep walking, in a dream-state filled with illusions and ideas that trick us... fooling ourselves into believing are supreme beings with super powers just like God Himself. How foolish we are. The truth is we are in our infancy upon this singular planet we call Earth. We are still evolving, we are still adapting to this planet, we are still growing up. We are far from the pinnacle we long to attain. But given our potential, we will attain our completeness, our fullness, our awakened state that will outshine the best of our ideas of a God.