Is God a physical being, then?
Hello Public Hermit, the Father is "spirit", as is the Holy Ghost, as are the angels, and yet,
Luke 2
8 There were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people.
11 For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.
12 And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying,
14 Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace,
Good will toward men.
15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven,
the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Beth-lehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us.
Can the angels (who are spirits) do what God cannot? Can we?
Rather than God needing to be a physical Being, with a mouth, tongue and vocal chords to speak, I believe that He fashioned those things for us when He created us, to allow us to do so as well
(speak that is, not call things into being
ex nihillo ).
Of course, if He wanted those things (physical attributes), He could have them, as people have already mentioned in this thread (as He certainly took many different physical forms in the OT and often spoke to us, Moses, the Prophets, and many others when He did, yes)?
Exodus 3
1 Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.
2 The angel of the LORD appeared to him in a blazing fire from the midst of a bush; and he looked, and behold, the bush was burning with fire, yet the bush was not consumed.
3 So Moses said, “I must turn aside now and see this marvelous sight, why the bush is not burned up.”
4 When the LORD saw that he turned aside to look, God called to him from the midst of the bush and said, “Moses, Moses!” And he said, “Here I am.”
5 Then He said, “Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.”
6 He said also, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
The member of the Godhead who walked among us as a man and died on the Cross to save us from our sins is the very same One who created the universe (spoke it and everything in it into existence) and Who, since the Creation, has held it all together as well .. e.g. John 1:3; Colossians 1:16-17. We have no way of imagining all that God is and is capable of (on this side of the grave), but perhaps it is best to not imagine Him as less than we know that He is, or that He is somehow limited in all of the ways that we are, yes?
God bless you!
--David
Acts of the Apostles 13
1 There were at Antioch, in the church that was there, prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen who had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
2 While they were ministering to the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
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