GOD DOES HAVE A BODY.

[P_Joseph]

"And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved." Acts 2:21

God was on a throne, and had on white cloths, and His hair was white. The Son of man also had a body, had cloths on, and had hair on His head (Dan. 7:9-14; 10:5-6). Stephen saw both God and Christ at the same time and place with the same eyes (Acts 7:56-59).

I Love You Dearly Brother

And You Bring Up The Question Of All Questions - Who Is Jesus Of Nazareth?

Another Look At The LORD Jesus Christ

"And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.

His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.

And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:

I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." Revelation 1:13-18

What A Wonder He Is!

Did You Hear What God Did!

"And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." John 1:14

Did You Know Dear One, God Walked Among Us!

"Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us." Matthew 1:23

Even Patience Brother Job Saw Him!

"For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:" Job 19:25

Dear Brother Isaiah Saw Him

"For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace." Isaiah 9:6

And Beloved John Saw Jesus The LORD

"These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful." Revelation 17:14

Jesus The Judge

"For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.

But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.

So then every one of us shall give account of himself to God." Romans 14:9-12

Upon The Throne

"And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.

And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire." Revelation 20:11-15

With Tears And Joy I Stand With Brother Thomas And Say....

"And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God." John 20:28

What A Wonder He Is!

Jesus Is LORD!

"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:" Deuteronomy 6:4

LORD OF LORDS AND KING OF KINGS

"And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war.

His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean.

And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.

And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS." Revelation 19:11-16

Be Blessed Beloved Of The LORD

The LORD bless thee, and keep thee:

The LORD make his face shine upon thee, and be gracious unto thee:

The LORD lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

And they shall put my name upon the children of Israel; and I will bless them. Numbers 6:24-27

Love, Your Brother Joe

Amen Amen Amen Well said brother Joe I wish i could have said it

Your brother Through THE LORD JESUS CHRIST p joe John3:30

[HAZARD]

Thats right, ignore all the scriptures which clearly and plainly state God has a body just to hang on to your pet theory. We know Jesus walked the earth in His body. It is also stated in Scripture that Jesus is a door (John 10:7), so was He a door or was He not a door? Using our God given common sense we know he was not a door so that shoots down your petty argument.

One could use what you just said to refute your claim that God has a physical body. Just sharing my thought.

Hi mathqueen.

Thanks for sharing, I apreciate it.

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" (Gen. 1:26).

Ok. If God does not have a body, and we are supposedly made in His image and in His likeness, then how come we are not invisible, nothingness, floating about in space, everywhere at the same place at the same time, without arms, legs, heads, tongues, hair, loins, hands., feet, etc which are all "merely synonyms or terms we can use to ascimilate that God is real and present," as 'Me-cajunboy" suggested?

"God goes from place to place just like any one else (Gen. 3:8; 11:5; 18:1-22, 33; 19:24; 32:24-32; 35:13; Zech. 14:5; Titus 2:13). God is omnipresent but not omnibody, that is His presence can be felt everywhere but His body is not everywhere. God wears cloths (Dan. 7:9-14; 10:5-19; God eats food (Gen. 18:1-22; Exodus 24:11)"

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Now that makes sense, doesn't it? Am I going to believe that? Not while I still have a brain and its continues to work. Lol.

Haz.

[Guest shiloh357]

God made man in His image and likeness, so that means He looks like us, and we look like Him. God made us in His image and likeness, and if He does not have a body, how come you have a body? Common sense must prevail.

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth" (Gen. 1:26).

Well, the passage you cite explains in what way we are in God's image. We are not created to resemble God physically. It shows that we are created in God's image in a moral sense, specifically with respect to having dominion over the rest of creation. We are created in God's image in the sense that we are the only creatures able to think in abstract terms, we have the ability to invent and discover. We have a moral sense of right from wrong. We are separate from the rest of creation in those ways. To claim that being created in God's image means a physical image is nothing but conjecture.

The thing about being created free moral agents is that we can either believe the Scriptures or not believe them. I have posted many dozens of Scriptures which proves God has a body. If God does not have a body, then there must be as many if not more Scriptures showing this. I have found over 500 Scriptures which show God has a body. There must be at least that many showing he does not have one if this is true?

Most of the passages, which you cite are anthropromorphisms and do not indicate that God has a body. God refers to Himself in physical terms that men can understand.

God is omniscient. That means that God is everywhere at once, that is sold, established biblical doctrine of the church. To claim that God has a body is to deny the doctrine of omniscience, which the Bible clearly teaches.

[mathqueen]

Well, the passage you cite explains in what way we are in God's image. We are not created to resemble God physically. It shows that we are created in God's image in a moral sense, specifically with respect to having dominion over the rest of creation. We are created in God's image in the sense that we are the only creatures able to think in abstract terms, we have the ability to invent and discover. We have a moral sense of right from wrong. We are separate from the rest of creation in those ways. To claim that being created in God's image means a physical image is nothing but conjecture.

Most of the passages, which you cite are anthropromorphisms and do not indicate that God has a body. God refers to Himself in physical terms that men can understand.

God is omniscient. That means that God is everywhere at once, that is sold, established biblical doctrine of the church. To claim that God has a body is to deny the doctrine of omniscience, which the Bible clearly teaches.

Thanks Shiloh! Everything I was about to say in reply you said here.

[RustyAngeL]

The Bible says that God is a spirit. So no I don't think He has a body like a human.

[Fraught]

maybe this is another problem of semantics. when i say God does not have a body, i am saying he is not confined to a body. i am not saying he cannot manifest himself in a body if and when he wanted to since he has clearly done so in the past, will do so in the future and for all i know, does it occasionally in the present.

(hazard, when God speaks of us taking shelter under his wings, do you think he has a body like an eagle?)

[mathqueen]

maybe this is another problem of semantics. when i say God does not have a body, i am saying he is not confined to a body. i am not saying he cannot manifest himself in a body if and when he wanted to since he has clearly done so in the past, will do so in the future and for all i know, does it occasionally in the present.

(hazard, when God speaks of us taking shelter under his wings, do you think he has a body like an eagle?)

Well said!!!

[Openly Curious]

1Corinthians 15:49--"And as we have borne the "image"of the "earthly" we shall also bear the "image" of the "heavenly"

1 Corinthians 15:44--"It is sown a "natural body; it is raised a "spiritual body" There is a natural body, and there is a "spiritual body"

1 Corinthians 15:40

I must say this is a very interesting thread as I read through it. The body in heaven is and will be tangible to us when we pass to the other side of life just as our Lord Jesus Christ did through death and burial and resurrected again on the third day as our example. We believers so shall follow his lead as the Bible says in Matthew 5 that the "pure in heart shall see God" and one cannot see something that is not able to be seen literally in the natural. As you can probably tell by now that I do believe that God the Father whom we have not seen except through his beloved Son Jesus Christ when God himself indwelt in the form of his dear Son manifesting Himself to the world that God can and will be seen by his sons and daughters in the next world as we have been given eternal life.

Jesus said, "that blessed are they that have not seen and believed."

God came down from His abode in the form of His dear Son bodily in the form of man born of a women just like you and I so that he could identify with our fallen sinful nature we inherited from Adam from the sin in the garden when death passed upon all men. God came down in the form of a man to live among us and be tempted as we are and to feel our infirmity and know what we feel as far as our grief, heartache, suffering etc, was concerned. God did this so that he could know as a holy God who has nothing to do with tempting or sin and the what not that the fallen nature of man does in order that "We" ourselves could identify with his "Divine nature" that he imparted to us when we were born again so that we could know him in a relationship that had be reconciled through the blood of His Son.

2 Peter 1:4--"Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises that by these ye might be "part-akers" of the divine nature having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust."

This of course is the imputed righteousness of God that was inputed to Abraham in Romans 4 (vs 22-25)--"And therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was imputed to him But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead Who was delivered for our offences and was raised again for our justification." As you can see in scriptures that this also is inputed to us by the promise of his Son Jesus when we believe and accept Him as our personal Saviour according to Romans 10

One day we shall see him as he is and be known or manifested ourselves that we belong to Him. Every thing in the book of Revelation especially chapter 21 will be seen with our own eyes and God will be there to behold by us who are redeemed by the blood of the lamb that made it possible to be with our Creator from the beginning of time who will be sitting on His throne as we shall cast our crowns at his "feet."

We right now have two natures as believers residing within us as we are a new creation and not the same person we were before as our nature was changed by God and we are a whole new creation in Christ we still have to contend with our fleshly nature but we also have God within us residing in our hearts and spirits the unregenerated person does not have both natures only the earthly until they get born again. But the generated have within the natural and the divine or spiritual nature of God imparted to us being the work of God.

But one day we shall give up this corruptible body we have now prown to temptation, sin and lust and shall put on the heavenly body the spiritual body where no heartache, sin, pain, death, crying, sorrow etc,. nor anything bad can harm us again and our earthly sinful bodies born in sin will be done away with forever.

But right now while we are alive in the natural world we to in time shall pass over into the spiritual world where the angels of God are around his throne crying holy is the lamb. As the angels have not known what it is for us human fallen race of mankind to have and feel the redemption of God as stated in Revelation as we shall sing there a song the angels cannot even sing the blessed song of the redeemed. As the scriptures say there is a natural body and their is a spiritual or heavenly body and I plan to be part of it as I know that everything that is here that we see with our eyes in the natural was first in the spiritual before it was manifested or known in the natural and made know to us in the the natural world we are subject unto.

Hebrews 11:1--"Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen"

Hebrews 11:2--"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear"

Once again excellent topic that you chose to discuss and interesting.

Blessings

OC

God the Father is a Holy God living in His Heavenly abode and I believe has a heavenly body or nature.

[HAZARD]

Heavenly bodies, Earthly bodies, everything has a body.

"But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come? Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die: And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain: But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body. All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another" (1 Cor. 15-35-41).

"It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual. The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven. As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly" (1 Cor. 15:44-49)

Jesus must be a lier if He has no body, because he said to Thomas and the disciples, "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). He later ascended up to Heaven where H SITS AT HIS FATHERS RIGHT HAND? "So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God" (Mark 16:19). "Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand of the power of God" (Luke 22:69).

It is prophesied in Zechariah that Jesus will have the scares which He recieved on the Earth, ON HIS BODY for all eternuity! "And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends" (Zech. 13:6).

Jesus in His glorified flesh and bone body in Heaven, sitting at His Fathers right hand? The Father in His spirit body; ["God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24)], sitting beside Jesus!

If these Scriptures are lies, then I better get busy and cross them out of my Bibles as well?

Haz.

[HAZARD]

maybe this is another problem of semantics. when i say God does not have a body, i am saying he is not confined to a body. i am not saying he cannot manifest himself in a body if and when he wanted to since he has clearly done so in the past, will do so in the future and for all i know, does it occasionally in the present.

(hazard, when God speaks of us taking shelter under his wings, do you think he has a body like an eagle?)

Well said!!!

Maybe God thinks He is a chicken with wings as well?

"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not" (Matthew 23:37).

In answer to your question, NO!

Jesus is also the chief corner stone; [" And are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone" (Ephesians 2:20)], that does not make Him stone either? No contest!

Haz.