Why God and Holy Spirit never descended to Earth?
God being the Original Father can manifest in any way he wishes
Will be ever manifest in human form in Earth?
Hi Mercuryash! Nice to meet someone from India. God did reveal Himself in many ways through history, yet Exodus 23:20 and 1st Timothy 6:16 tells us we cannot see God as He truly is and survive it. This is because of sin, which the holy, righteous, and just character of God requires Him to destroy. Yet God can reveal Himself in limited ways that allow us to survive. God revealed Himself in various ways all through the Old Testament. In the New Testament, we are told of God's ultimate revelation of Himself in Jesus Christ:
John 1:1-5, 14 NASB In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (2) He was in the beginning with God. (3) All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. (4) In Him was life, and the life was the Light of men. (5) The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it... (14) And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth.
Jesus Christ is God made flesh. He came to reveal the character of God to us, and more importantly, to deal with the problem of human sin once and for all. This is what the gospels (first four books of the New Testament) tell us about.
After Jesus had dealt with sin, Acts 2 tells us of the Holy Spirit descending upon the early church. The Holy Spirit is with us today, and will dwell within us if we repent and accept Jesus Christ as our Lord. The Holy Spirit is not visible, although He can choose to be as He did in Acts 2, but normally the Holy Spirit is like the wind to our human perception. Both the Hebrew (original Old Testament language) and the Greek (original New Testament language) use words to speak of the Holy Spirit that literally mean "wind". We can see and feel wind's effects (trees swaying, clouds being driven by it, we can feel it against our skin), but we do not actually see the wind itself. In the same way, we do not directly see the Holy Spirit, but we can see and feel the effects of the Holy Spirit in our hearts and changed lives.
Ultimately, God will dwell with us as He is, and we will not be destroyed because we will finally be completely free from sin. First, though, Jesus Christ will return to earth and judge those who are in complete rebellion against Him (Revelation 19:11-21). After this, Jesus, along with the resurrected believers in new eternal bodies, will establish a just, good, and righteous government over the earth for a thousand years, ruling over those left alive after His return (Revelation 20:4-6). Yet because humanity is basically sinful in nature, the people at the end of that time will once again rebel against that just, good, and righteous rule, and God will be forced to once again destroy them (Revelation 20:7-10). At that point, sinful mankind will have demonstrated the justice and goodness of God's hatred of sin by showing ourselves to be completely unable to govern ourselves in a good and just way for all the thousands of years of human history, then show ourselves unable to submit to a good and just government established by Jesus Christ. At that time, God will do a final judgment (Revelation 20:11-15), completely dissolving the present physical universe (2nd Peter 3:7-13), and will recreate a new heavens and a new earth (Revelation 21:1). We are told that at that time we will finally be in the presence of God the Father as He truly is (Revelation 21:3), because redeemed mankind will finally be free from sin, and we will dwell with God: Father, Son, and Spirit, forever in peace and joy (Revelation 21-22).
(Note: im really curious forgive me if you don't like my questions)
I don't mind any honest questions with sincere desire to hear answers, I only mind those who pretend to seek answers but really just want to endlessly argue trivia, and really have no desire to actually know God.
One final thought: the specifics of how Christians understand the things I just wrote about are varied, but all orthodox Christians believe that Jesus Christ will one day return, judge the rebellious, and bring redeemed man into full communion with God in a new heavens and new earth.
God bless, Mercuryash.
