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1 | Did God really walk around the garden? | Gen 18:1 | kalos | 31149 | ||
Kenneth "Copeland makes God out to be a 'spirit-being with a body, complete with eyes, and eyelids, ears, nostrils, a mouth, hands and fingers, and feet'." You write: "You were made in the Image of God, therefore God is in the Image of you. He has arms legs etc., and on the bottom of the legs there are feet, for Him to "Walk On"." God is NOT in the image of you. If he is, please show us the book, show us the chapter, show us the verse in the Bible where it says that. 'A GOD OF HUMAN PROPORTIONS 'Copeland's view of God fares no better biblically than his understanding of faith. He describes God as someone "very much like you and me....A being that stands somewhere around 6'2," 6'3," that weighs somewhere in the neighborhood of a couple of hundred pounds, little better, [and] has a [hand]span nine inches across." 'Copeland's statement is based on his hyperliteral reading of Isaiah 40:12 ("Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, marked off the heavens with a [nine inch] span,..." [AV]). Yet following the same line of interpretation, one would also have to conclude that God literally held a basket full of dust and weighed mountains on a gigantic set of scales (v. 12b) — an absurd proposition ruled out by the context of the passage. The fact is that Isaiah 40 makes extensive use of figurative language to underscore the vast difference between the Creator and His creation. 'Giving a literal spin on verses that figuratively describe God in humanlike (anthropomorphic) terms, Copeland makes God out to be a "spirit-being with a body, complete with eyes, and eyelids, ears, nostrils, a mouth, hands and fingers, and feet." However, the Bible never intended to convey the notion that God has physical features like His human creation. Anthropomorphic descriptions were simply meant to help us understand and relate to our Maker. Jesus declared, "God is spirit" (John 4:24), not a spirit-being with a body (cf. Deut. 4:12). The Creator is, after all, "God, and not man" (Hos. 11:9). 'The idea of God possessing a body (physical or spirit) implies the unbiblical view that the Trinity is actually composed of three separate beings. Moreover, a God who has a body with definite, measurable dimensions cannot truly be omnipresent, unlike the God of Scripture who is present everywhere in all His fullness (Jer. 23:23-24). (It is true that in His human nature Christ has a body and is localized in space and time. But in His divine nature He remains nonphysical and omnipresent, sharing this immutable nature with the Father and Holy Spirit.) Copeland's deflation of God is best exemplified by his comment that "the biggest failure in the Bible...is God." In stark contrast, the biblical God is an all-powerful being (Dan. 4:35) whose plans cannot be thwarted (Job 42:2) and who considers nothing too difficult (Jer. 32:17; Luke 1:37).' (WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE FAITH MOVEMENT? (Part Two): The Teachings of Kenneth Copeland by Hank Hanegraaff and Erwin M. de Castro) (www.equip.org) ************* INCORPOREAL: God has no body or parts, and is immaterial, being a simple and infinite being of spirit; excluding the Mormon doctrine of God as an exalted man. a. God is spirit (John 4:24) b. God is not a man (Num. 23:19; 1 Sam. 15:29) c. Implied by doctrines of self-existence, transcendence, omnipresence, and creation. (CRI Statement DA275, THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD) (www.equip.org) |
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2 | Did God really walk around the garden? | Gen 18:1 | BWJ | 31293 | ||
Well I guess that Genesis 1:26 (Amplified)must be wrong then, thanks for the enlightenment. Guess I will have to go by another book. Do you know of any other Word of God? | ||||||
3 | Did God really walk around the garden? | Gen 18:1 | Lionstrong | 31310 | ||
Dear BWJ: Gen 1:26 does not say that the image is the body. The verse simply says that God made man in His image. It does not say the image was a body. You have wrongly infered that the image is a body from this verse. God does not have a body. Deut 4:12 "Then the LORD spoke to you from the midst of the fire; you heard the sound of words, but you saw no form--only a voice...." Why did the Isrealites see no form, but only heard a voice? They saw no form because God is invisible. 2 Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. 1 Tim 1:17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. Rom 1:20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. Why is God invisible? Because God is spirit. (John 4:24 "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth." Luke 24:39 "See My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself; touch Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.") Gen 2:7 Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. Like other creatures that God made to inhabit this world, we have bodies. God made man's body from the dust of the ground, not from himself. Man did not become a "living soul" until God breathed into that body. The breath that God breathed into man is God's image, not the body that he made from the ground. So, man's invisible spirit is the image of God, not man's body. Peace, Lionstrong |
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4 | Did God really walk around the garden? | Gen 18:1 | kalos | 31341 | ||
Lionstrong: Please accept my sincerest and most heartfelt thanks and commendation for your excellent posting. Your post is factual, well documented, well reasoned and well written. You do good work, Lionstrong. Grace and peace to you, kalos |
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