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NASB	Genesis 18:1 Now the LORD appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.
AMPLIFIED 2015	Genesis 18:1 Now the LORD appeared to Abraham by the terebinth trees of Mamre [in Hebron], while he was sitting at the tent door in the heat of the day.

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Subject: Did God really walk around the garden?

Bible Note: 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