WRONG!
i dont think you know what a "theophany" is?
http://religion.wikia.com/wiki/Theophany
you believe god is flesh and blood?
god is an omnipresent and omniscient spirit.
and flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of god including resurrected flesh and blood.
You haven't really refuted anything that I wrote in........#581, #582, #585, #587, #588.
Theophany is a term used in Greek philosophy in relation to their pantheon of false gods in their mythical stories of one off appearances of each of their false gods. When I say one off, I mean that each god had their one off appearance story, in describing the function of that false god. However the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel is an epiphany of the Christ, witnessed to believers and non believers and throughout the ages, this means that it is not a one off appearance story or vision, but many real and tangible physical appearances, throughout the generations of Old Covenant Israel. These multiple appearances, by evidence of scripture, can hardly be likened to a one off theophany. The Christ appearances were not a function of his role in some mythical story, in the way the ancient Greeks depicted their gods.
Example of theophany is of the false Greek god mythological stories and relationship that they had with other false gods. Here is an example of such theophany......
Poseidon (
/pəˈsaɪdən, pɒ-, poʊ-/;
[1] Greek:
Ποσειδῶν, pronounced
[pose͜edɔ́͜ɔn]) was one of the twelve
Olympian deities of the
pantheon in
Greek mythology. His main domain was the
ocean, and he is called the "God of the Sea". Additionally, he is referred to as "Earth-Shaker"
[2] due to his role in causing
earthquakes, and has been called the "tamer of horses".
[3] He is usually depicted as an older male with curly hair and beard.
The name of the sea-god
Nethuns in
Etruscan was adopted in Latin for
Neptune in
Roman mythology; both were sea gods analogous to Poseidon.
Linear B tablets show that Poseidon was venerated at
Pylos and
Thebes in pre-Olympian
Bronze Age Greece as a chief deity, but he was integrated into the
Olympian gods as the brother of
Zeus and
Hades.
[3] According to some folklore, he was saved by his mother Rhea, who concealed him among a flock of lambs and pretended to have given birth to a colt, which was devoured by Cronos.
[4]
You cannot categorise the appearances of Christ with the theophany of Greek mythical stories. How can you think of the Lord in this manner, it is both derogatory and offensive to the Lord. Christ not only appeared to the prophets of old, but he dined with them and he established a one to one personal relationship with them. By using the word theophany, you unwittingly have categorised the Lord amongst the pantheon of false gods stories, who had no personal relationship with humans, except with their own relatives. A personal one to one relationship and a face to face dialogue, especially in the case of Abraham in relation to the story of Sodom and Gomorrah can hardly be visions or theophanies. How could Abraham and the prophets like Moses, establish a one to one personal relationship and face to face dialogue with a vision or a theophany story. All theophany stories are impersonal to man kind and certainly do not provide any evidence of any face to face dialogue or positive interactions with human beings.
No I don't believe that God is flesh and blood from a human perspective. Though I believe that Jesus Christ, who is our living God came by water and blood. Now having said that, God is infinite Holy Spirit. The Son who is the reflection of the infinite invisible source of Light, is seen and has been seen physically throughout history, by many. His appearances in the Old Testament doesn't mean that he had blood running in his veins, as you have wrongly assumed that these appearances had human flesh and human blood. These appearance are likened to the Son of man, though they are physical by nature, but do not require the biomechanical chemistry function internally, like the human body require to survive. I can liken the appearances of Christ in the Old Testament like chemists compare carbon based life forms (humans) to silicon based life form (mimic human appearance, but lack internals).
Ask yourself one question, when Jesus was eating the broiled fish at the table with his disciples present, was his body digesting the food, by using a blood based nutrient dispersion biomechanical chemical system?
No.
In fact the Lord spells it out, that he is not a blood based life form as humans are, though his appearance is very real and physical.
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. (Luke 24:39)
Flesh and bone in the absense of blood, points to a non-carbon based life form, that materialises synthetically to be seen. Christ didn't need to eat the broiled fish, rather he synthetically materialised at those GPS coordinates at will. We can also know that when he walked for miles with the disciples, the synthetic appearances prevented them from recognising the Lord, because he tweaked his form so that he would not be recognised and how this appearance interacts with thought perceptions plays another part, to how the Lord reads their minds and how he projects himself within their thought process. In fact Christ did a slow reveal to Mary Magdalene who would suddenly come to recognise him, when he tweaked the form and projected it in her mind spirit to spirit, to recognise not only his appearance, but also his very being.
Yes flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of heaven, that is human flesh and blood which is associated with carbon based life forms of the earth. However flesh and bone in the absense silicon based life forms that can matialise at will can inherit the Kingdom of God, because the function of the physical appearances is not a function of being. Again the function of physical appearance is not a function of being. The heavenly body is one that is not living conscious soul alone, rather it can manifest physically at will anywhere it pleases. The words of Jesus......
My Father's house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
As humans living within the carbon based earthly body we are a finite function of our carbon based bodies. Angels are an infinite function of their assigned function, which is not tied down to physical matter or physical form that they take on if so they wish. In the earthly body we are a finite function of our earthly bodies, however in the heavenly body we are Lord from Heaven and are a function of our assigned function that the Lord will assign each of us.
The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven. (1 Corinthians 15:47)
As we are in our sinful carbon based bodies, we are a function of that sinful body that we contend with every day. In the heavenly sinless form, we are a function of the sinless assigned state of being, not tied down in function to physical matter. In this regard we cannot say we are Lords from heaven, because we live in a finite function dictated by our sinful bodies, that operates by blood chemistry.
