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1 | Does God possess a spirit body? | John 4:24 | DocTrinsograce | 132819 | ||
Anthropomorphites teach this false notion that God has a body. This is an error, contrary to scripture, and orthodoxy. "Our God has no introduction in time. He alone is without beginning, and is himself the beginning of all things. God is a spirit, not attending upon matter, but the maker of material spirits and of the appearances which are in matter. He is invisible, being himself the Father of both sensible and invisible things" --Tatian (170 AD) "I have sufficiently demonstrated that we are not atheists, since we acknowledge one God, unbegotten, eternal, invisible, incapable of being acted upon, incomprehensible, unbounded, who is known only by understanding and reason, who is encompassed by light and beauty and spirit and indescribable power, by whom all things, through his Word, have been produced and set in order and are kept in existence" --Athenagoras (177 AD) "Being is in God. God is divine being, eternal and without beginning, incorporeal and illimitable, and the cause of what exists. Being is that which wholly subsists. Nature is the truth of things, or the inner reality of them. According to others, it is the production of what has come to existence; and according to others, again, it is the providence of God, causing the being, and the manner of being, in the things which are produced" --Clement (200 AD) "God, however, being without parts, is Father of the Son without division and without being acted upon. For neither is there an effluence from that which is incorporeal, nor is there anything flowering into him from without, as in the case of men. Being simple in nature, he is Father of one only Son" --Athanasius (350 AD) "God is simple and of an incomposite and spiritual nature, having neither ears nor organs of speech. A solitary essence and illimitable, he is composed of no numbers and parts" --Didymus (362 AD) "God is of a simple nature, not conjoined nor composite. Nothing can be added to him. He has in his nature only what is divine, filling up everything, never himself confused with anything, penetrating everything, never himself being penetrated, everywhere complete, and present at the same time in heaven, on earth, and in the farthest reaches of the sea, incomprehensible to the sight" --Ambrose (379 AD) "In created and changeable things what is not said according to substance can only be said according to accident. . . . In God, however, certainly there is nothing that is said according to accident, because in him there is nothing that is changeable, but neither is everything that is said of him according to substance" --Augustine (408 AD) |
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2 | Does God possess a spirit body? | John 4:24 | Reighnskye | 132839 | ||
Thanks, Doc. Your references here clearly and articulately answer my question. May I further ask what written book (or computer program) that you got this fine collection of quotes from? I'd very much like to add it to my personal library. It almost seems like a topical list of quotations from a rather fine book somewhere. I especially enjoy these latter quotes that you reference. The ancients seem to possess a much greater understanding of supernatural things than many of our scholars today. - "God is simple and of an incomposite and spiritual nature, having neither ears nor organs of speech. A solitary essence and illimitable, he is composed of no numbers and parts" --Didymus (362 AD) Didymus here conveys that God possesses no organ parts such as ears or mouth, as indeed the angels do in there appearances to many of the bible authors. This would further reinforce to me that God spoke through angels and men when relaying the scriptures to us in the Old Testament. Further, Jesus was an even greater vehicle of the Father's message of salvation. "God is of a simple nature, not conjoined nor composite. Nothing can be added to him. He has in his nature only what is divine, filling up everything, never himself confused with anything, penetrating everything, never himself being penetrated, everywhere complete, and present at the same time in heaven, on earth, and in the farthest reaches of the sea, incomprehensible to the sight" --Ambrose (379 AD) Ambrose here, at least in part, seems to convey that God is omnipresent, and therefore not limited to either an ethereal or material body which is finite in it's location and proximity. Whereas, the angels themselves are in no way omnipresent and can only sense the environment around them from the vantage point of an ethereal body. - Reighnskye |
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3 | Does God possess a spirit body? | John 4:24 | DocTrinsograce | 132962 | ||
Hi, Reignskye... These I got off of the Master's Christian Library, doing a search on the attributes of God. However, the web itself has a huge amount of information, if you know how to identify the appropriate key words. I'm glad you found it useful. Actually, we have a significant advantage over the ancients. We have the ancients themselves... and we have all the long line of theologians in between... and we have the various technologies... and we have a lot more people... and greater opportunity for education... and a much broader base from which to debate. Also, keep in mind, just being ancient doesn't make people right... if you don't believe me, read Judges. In Him, Doc |
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