Bible Study God has a body!

[AHIMSA]

If we look at the bible from an honest perspective, we will see that it is not consistent in its presentation of the divine. While Christians today believe God to be formless and invisible he was not always thought to be so (in pre-Christian times).

If we look at the Bible we see that God was originally thought of in anthropomorphic terms, that the early Hebrews and authors of the Bible thought him to be a person with a body:

Lets look the Bible:

When Genesis says that man was made in the image of God, it means just that, that man was physically created in the likeness of God. The Hebrew word for image used means: to cut or hew a physical image. For example, Seth is later described to be in the image of Adam. Its really indisputable that the author of the creation story was refering to a physical likeness.

In the story of the Fall, God is said to be "moving about in the garden in the breezy time of day", so that when Adam and Eve hide from God they are literally hiding from him.

In Exodus God descends in a cloud of smoke to hide his physical self, here Moses sees God's back and hand (Exodus 33:23) the Ten Commandments are inscribed by his finger.

As the Bible develops, these ideas later change.

 

[Lyric's Dad]

Yes, God the Father has a glorified body.

 

[Rick W]

Being made in the image of God simply means people deserve respect, not being treated like animals or ignored when in trouble. If you look at the Ten Commandments you'll see how we are to treat our fellow man. There's a reason God would have us do that. It separates us from the rest of the creatures of this world.
Other religions, Mormonism in particular rely on exactly what you're pointing out to further their doctrine of a physical God or at least a God that was once a man, physical, as evidenced by their doctrine that "As man is God once was. As God is man can become." Once a physical God is believed it's a short step of pride to believe we are or can become His equal.

Believe it or not but I knew a fellow back in Salt Lake (not a Mormon) that thought God was a bird by references to His wings and feathers. He also cited the native American totem poles as depictions that God is in the form of a bird. The same fellow thought God hated trees because he took an ax to the trees and references to the stump of Jesse.

We need to remember that we cannot even fathom God's wisdom let alone understand His composition. He appears to men at times in ways man will understand. Same with "The Son". We can't understand the true relationship of God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Ghost therefore "The Son" is used to come as close to a relationship we can at least grasp onto when refering to Christ's deity.

Being locked in a physical world leaves us at a handicap. We don't know anything else. Ezekiel's visions describes creatures totally unknown to us. Creatures covered with eyes and creatures that have wheels that turn this way and that. All this descriptions are from a man's point of view and that can't be any other way.

 

[-maranatha-]

Yes, God has a body. It is a spiritual body because God is spirit. It is a glorified and our new body will be born of spirit, too. The bible tells us, that the appearing isn´t from the appearing, but of things we don´t see with our eyes. God´s body is a spiritual reality and you can only see it with your spiritual eyes. Before God created there was nothing, he even created the heavens. There was just God (spirit) who was and is the word, not matter but information, including will and feelings.

 

[Bob10]

yes, God has a body.

We are created in His image, after His kind.


The cattle after their kind.

The fowls after their kind.

God created humans, after His kind.


God is not just the name of a person, but of a kind of being.