Welcome aboard.Polemique wrote: ↑Sat Apr 16, 2022 2:27 pm Hello Gents: New here, thank you for allowing me to join. I heard about God has a body. I would ask if everyone believes in the Holy Bible. Assuming the answer is 'Yes", do you believe in the Holy Trinity and assuming the answer is "Yes", you believe Elohim, Adonai, Y'Shua, and this same Holy Trinity are this same God in the OT and NT? Assuming this is "Yes", Was the Son of God incarnate subjected to created birth, life, death, resurrection, ascension, and sits at the right hand of the Father? Assuming "Yes" as most Christians would adhere to this Tradition handed down to faithful men, does this same Holy Trinity godhead then have two bodies with Christ having a set of hands (to sit next to the father) and also the Father having a set of hands or have our righteous forefathers portrayed to us that God the Father is infinite and not defined by His creation? It seems some would confine the Holy Trinity to the confines of finite human capacity, that man is able to comprehend the infinite consuming fire without dying. Apostle Paul said that and we know that Apostle John the Revelator portrayed this as well. That we cannot fully translate infinite things to mortal understanding.
Does the Holy Spirit then also have a body like the Father and the Son, since they are One Godhead? We dimly see and understand, as though in a mirror. Then, we shall see fully as He does. Bodies are material and fallen, complex. Complexity is of that which is created. Complexity is also of the fallen nature pertaining to decay, oxidation, lustful reproduction and bloody childbirth, fluid, pathologies, hate, emotion. All of these are of the fallen nature not indicative of Edenic Paradise. This image of the Holy Trinity of man in paradise could not be the same as the fallen nature. We have fragmented fallen knowledge and understanding.
Many different questions leading to one: ultimately, why must the Father have an incarnate body when He is only temporally incarnate? ie, birth, life, death, resurrection, ascension. He is temporarily incarnate because time is a constraint of fallen nature. He is eternally the Father, eternally the Son, and eternally the Holy Spirit---ONE GOD.....Now, I do not understand this. I can describe it, but not explain it. This is what the Hebrews and early Christians knew as a mystery. The mystery of the Holy Trinity Knowable, yes, Audible, yes. Visible, No. There are visible and invisible natures observed in creation. We cannot observe with our eyes forces holding earth in place and rotating the heavens around earth. We know it happens but no one can explain the CAUSE. we can describe them in a limited manner. Why then would the Father have a materialistic, constrained type of body?
If God, the Father, has a body, why do you think it would be only temporary?
Personally, I think God is a spirit, and must be worshipped in spirit and truth.
And, that references to "God's" body parts are in the sense of the entirety of the Godhead and not just of the Father.
That 'entirety' would be God the Father and the Word.