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| Free2dance Registered user Username: Free2dance Post Number: 541 Registered: 2-2010 |
I was reading Psalm 91 just now and I came to verse 4 and had to stop reading to look up the word "pinions" in the dictionary. Here is what it said for anyone else who doesn't know, "the terminal section of a bird's wing including the carpus, metacarpus, and phalanges; broadly : wing." After reading this my thoughts brought me back to mid November of 2010 when I was sitting beside my dying grandfather talking to him about God. I told him that God is spirit and we were made in His image with spirits that are born dead to him and must be made alive by putting our trust in Jesus finished work on the cross. He began to argue with me and tell me that God had a body and that was how we are made in His image. He talked about God showing Moses his back, and about the language in the Bible that describes God's face being turned away or His hand being stretched out. I wish I had Psalm 91 in that moment. Sigh... | ||
| Jeremy Registered user Username: Jeremy Post Number: 3874 Registered: 10-2004  |
Yes, Psalm 91:4 is a very good verse to use. The NIV translates it as follows: "He will cover you with his feathers, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart." In fact, Walter Martin loved to use this verse when talking to Mormons, who were trying to prove that God has a body. He would have them read this verse, where it says that God has feathers and wings, and then ask them: "So is God a chicken?!"  Jeremy | ||
| Starlabs Registered user Username: Starlabs Post Number: 87 Registered: 5-2011 |
Wow, lightbulb moment. I always wondered why the Bible said man was made in "Our image". I knew that verse was talking about God the Father and God the Son and I thought since Jesus had a body that God had one too. But I guess Jesus first had that body when He came to earth, maybe not when we were created. So you are saying when it says made in Their image it is actually the spirit and not the body? That's cool. I never looked at it like that. It makes since now when I read that verse of being made in "Our image". | ||
| Jeremy Registered user Username: Jeremy Post Number: 3875 Registered: 10-2004 |
Starlabs, Here is something I posted last year on this subject:
*See John 4:24. Also, notice that Genesis 1:27 says "image" singular not "images" plural. If we were made in the physical images of the Father and Son (and Holy Spirit), as Ellen G. White teaches, then it would be plural. But God is one spirit Being. The Adventist teaching that God the Father and God the Son have always had physical bodies necessitates a belief in polytheism (multiple separate physical divine beings) rather than Trinitarian monotheism (one divine spirit being). Jesus says in John 4:24 that "God is spirit." And in Luke 24:39, He says that, "a spirit does not have flesh and bones." Jeremy | ||
| Jeremy Registered user Username: Jeremy Post Number: 3876 Registered: 10-2004 |
You can find more on my website at: http://www.cultorchristian.com/#Incorporeality Jeremy | ||
| Asurprise Registered user Username: Asurprise Post Number: 2430 Registered: 7-2007 |
Another thing that makes sense is the fact that we are three-part beings and God is a three-part being. Notice this verse.... "Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and my your whole spirit, soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." 1st Thessalonians 5:23 | ||
| Starlabs Registered user Username: Starlabs Post Number: 89 Registered: 5-2011 |
That's interesting, Jeremy. I'm still learning a lot apparently. Thanks for sharing that! I'll check out your site! | ||
| Kelleigh Registered user Username: Kelleigh Post Number: 412 Registered: 7-2011  |
I don't think God has a body. How can you be omnipresent and all the other omni's if you've got a physical body? Goodnight. |
