Yes, but it is not physical, so it probably does not have anything you can imagine as a physical shape. Paul calls it a spiritual body.
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Think about this from another angle: Does angel have a physical form in heaven? Would we have a physical form in heaven? Could we recognize who is angel and who is human in Heaven? If yes, then we MUST have a form there.
Yes, but it is not physical, so it probably does not have anything you can imagine as a physical shape. Paul calls it a spiritual body.
If the bible does speak of God's physical form, what does it tell us about it?
Psalm 17:8 hide me in the shadow of your wings...
Do you think you would recognise the invisible God by his shape?
But don't forget this is because he went and took on our form.
Phil 2:6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,
7 but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
Spiritual body is a "body". A body has an identity and is most likely described by geometry.
If there were no geometry of a body, then there will be no boundary of that body. Then bodies will be mixed and difficult to identify.
This brings up my another thought:
Jesus took our form because He wants to be one of us on earth. Now His mission is over and the form of human to God should be a thing of the past. Why do many Christians still think we will see Jesus as a human form in Heaven (It seems that this is said at several places in the Scripture)? Why would God still want to take a human form in the Heaven? The only reason I can think of is that the human form is the preferred form of God. It is an excellent form. (can't resist this: So, the form of ape is NOT good enough).
You mean except for the bit about us being apes?This brings up my another thought:
Jesus took our form because He wants to be one of us on earth. Now His mission is over and the form of human to God should be a thing of the past. Why do many Christians still think we will see Jesus as a human form in Heaven (It seems that this is said at several places in the Scripture)? Why would God still want to take a human form in the Heaven? The only reason I can think of is that the human form is the preferred form of God. It is an excellent form. (can't resist this: So, the form of ape is NOT good enough).
A physical body can be described by geometry. I don't think we can make that assumption about a spiritual body. It has no "geo" (i.e. earth, dust, the stuff the physical body is made of) to measure.
You think shape is the only way to identify different spirits? How about tone of voice, temperature, vibratory frequency, aura, magnetic resonance? (Actually all of those are physical too, but if we have so many ways other than shape to identify physical entities, there are surely as many or more analogous ways to identify spirits without relying on their geometry.)
1John 3:2 Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is. We don't know what we will be like yet, no one has seen Jesus as he really is either, not even John. Which is a bit of a problem for arguments based on thinking you know what Jesus will be like in eternity.
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