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He moved through Eden in the evening breeze, not as a human form..Arikay said:
This relates quite well with a point that Rising_Sun was making on another post in which he stated that, throught the grace of God, we may prevail against sin and become perfect before the Lord, or something to that effect.dlamberth said:
Unique Creation said:
I completely agree with you on this one... God made us all unique and different he doesn't want us to look like him.. but have his wisdom.. and to be like him in spirit.. Your COMPLETELY RIGHT!!!
No, Jesus did not have flesh until he came to earth.evangelist said:
evangelist said:
God is pure spirit. Humans have the capacity for spirituality, and to connect with others in ways that cannot be explained by chemical means. We have the ability to love unconditionally, feel guilt, feel spiritual pain and seperation, and on an opposite level, to feel hate and maliciousness that while it isn't Godly, it is spiritual in that it comes from something other than reason or instinct and can have the brute intensity of righteous feelings(correct me if I'm wrong, but I've never seen evidence stating hate was caused by chemicals in the brain). Spirituality doesn't necessarily have to be good or holy; the fallen angels are still spiritual in nature, but by no means godly or holy. The ability to have the capacity of spirit is the one we inherited directly from God, but when the sin nature entered into us before the expulsion from Eden, our spirit attained the possibility of leaning one way or the other, which seperates us from God and makes us search for what we're missing.evangelist said:
Even though this would seem to conflict with the pure spirit idea, physically, the human form of a head, torso, legs, arms, and facial features. Basically, yes, God is spirit, but spirit could have a form, since there is no evidence against spirit not having some sort of form. I've read in several sources that one of the Hebrew words for God, Elohim, while being plural in form but used in the singular, is also constructed of masculine and feminine pairings (prefix/suffix, but I can't remember which was which). Taking from that, God is neither male nor female, which makes sense to some degree, since pure spirit wouldn't need to have sexual differentiation (besides, the purpose of being male or female is for reproduction; the sexes were differentiated so reproduction would be possible). It may have implications when referring to God as Father, but that terminology may be one out of familiarity (the rule of 'if unknown, assume male', for example), since God portrays both typically masculine traits and typically feminine traits in one being, leading to the idea that men and women have sets of attributes that corrolate to God, but not each other (I personally have some conflict with this, as I myself am far less masculine than most other guys; so the ability for understanding and empathy with the opposite sex is there, regardless of your own physical sex).
Interestingly, many Jewish legends talk of angels with multitudes of hands, eyes, mouths, and other physical attributes. God would probably assume the form of a human being with facial structures that would be familiar to us, as humans have these features and we were formed in His image. Christ was God incarnate, so by logic, He would have to look like a human to walk among us. Once again, spirit takes form, serves as model for human beings; Christ was made flesh in the image of God as well, so He would look just as humans do, since we were also made in the image of God. It is the degree of the image that seperates us from Christ. We are inherently flawed with sin nature and thus not a perfect image; He was not flawed, therefore being a true image of God in flesh.
Most prophets or people that claimed/claim to have seen God were either having a vision (in which case they could live to tell about it) or were having a delusion. Of course, the out-of-body experiences many talk about that include a meeting with God and Him telling them it's not time for them and sending them back to Earth are probably more along the lines of God assuming a form (albeit human) that the person would be comfortable with, since He is limitless. This concept has been touched upon in various entertainment mediums such as movies and TV, but it is one which makes sense and doesn't seem to hold any conflict with Scripture.
