Many theologians and church leaders say that God is a spirit and thus does not
have a body and does not really have gender.
That he is
only being “anthropomorphic” in representing himself as a male person, to us mortals.
This would amount to God, "MISrepresenting himself." This doctrine is
horribly wrong.
THIS IS FALSE. God is completely ABLE
to be BOTH a spirit and a male person.
It
is NOT true, as these theologians are effectively saying, that God is speaking falsely and MISrepresenting himself throughout
the entire Bible.
And further, that the Bible
is obviously, massively, wrong.
God is completely
truthful.
Exodus 31:18: And
he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone,
written with the FINGER of God.
Obviously,
God has a FINGER.
Exodus 33: 21-23: And
the LORD said (to Moses), Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: And it shall come to pass,
while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my HAND while I pass
by:
And I will take away mine HAND, and
thou shalt see my BACK PARTS: but my FACE shall not be seen.
Obviously God has a FACE, A HAND, BACK PARTS, AND OF
COURSE, A FINGER!
The
Bible is correct, the religious “experts” are dead wrong.
This is the same situation when Jesus walked this earth, he and the Scribes and Pharisees
were constantly at odds! The situation has NOT changed!
Revelation 4:2 -- And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in
heaven, and one SAT on the throne.
5:1 And I saw in the RIGHT HAND of him that SAT on the throne a book written within
and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. Plainly God is seated on his thrown and has a book in his right hand.
Yes, God does have a body!
Some will introduce a “red herring” in that there are several Bible verses where God speaks metaphorically
as though he has wings.
Such
as, Exodus 19:4: Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you
unto myself.
And
Ruth 2:12: The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings
thou art come to trust.
We
know he is speaking non-literally from Jesus’ plain words in John 14:8-9:
Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it
sufficeth us.
Jesus
saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip?
he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how
sayest thou then, Show us the Father?
Plainly Jesus did not have wings, so neither does the heavenly Father.
It is clear that Jesus’ body accurately
represents the Father’s body, and we believers will one day see the Father.
Thus, God is a straight male.
Rev 22:4 says: And
they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Hebrews 1:3, tells us Jesus Christ is the EXPRESS IMAGE of
his (God’s) person.
The Greek word underlying "image" is "charakter." This is the ONLY place in
the Bible it is used.
It
means an EXACT COPY, in this context.
Thus, God MUST BE a male person!
If we consider 1 Corinthians 15:35-50 we see that in the resurrection we will be spirits,
WITH spirit bodies, AND be in God’s image:
God DOES have a body!
1 Corinthians 15: 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.
There
is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another
star in glory.
So
also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
It is sown in dishonour; it is raised
in glory: it is sown in weakness;
it is raised in power: 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.
Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot
inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
Plainly, being a spirit does NOT prevent God from
having a body. HE HAS A SPIRIT BODY!
It is a terrible heresy, sin, and outrageous insult to God, for theologians to hold
this view -- that God has no body.
Some hundred plus years of Darwinian evolution have fooled many people into thinking the Bible is wrong in
many places.
But
now we have the stunning, SIDE BY SIDE, COMPARISON of our own painstakingly made high tech world, AND God’s painstakingly
made molecular, biological, high tech world.
Realize that atoms are atoms.
The oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, etc., atoms, in living things are exactly the same as those
atoms in non-living things.
Both,
obey the laws of physics, the same way.
God specially created this universe, including us. This is obvious! -- JUST AS
WE CREATED OUR HIGH-TECH WORLD.
Continuing investigation of nature with better and better, high tech tools, always show nature to be much,
much, much, more intricate and wonderful than we ever imagined.
The Bible is exactly right about special creation, after all, and
we can place the utmost confidence in the plain teaching of Scripture that God is indeed a straight male person.
God THE FATHER, is HE, Israel is SHE.
Jesus Christ,
God’s Son, and God in his own right, is HE.
His Bride, known as the Church, is SHE.
God is a straight male, and is the very definition of manhood.
Womanhood is that
personage, which is THE compliment to God's masculine being, and to real men, too.
These, both, together, are critical in showing
that God is a straight male.
Together,
a married man and woman are the complete image of God.