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NASB | Ephesians 5:25 ¶ Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Ephesians 5:25 ¶ Husbands, love your wives [seek the highest good for her and surround her with a caring, unselfish love], just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her, |
Subject: Are you asking about a mystical body |
Bible Note: So why shouldn't we believe that God has feathers, then? How is that "clearly" the case? Scripture never says that man "looks like" God. But this raises an interesting point. Dake says that because God is triune, that God actually has THREE bodies. Do you believe this as well? And what about the pre-existent Christ. Being in very nature God, did He have a body as well? If so, what happened to it when He was born a man? Or does He have two bodies now? Historically, Christians have held that Jesus has two natures, one human and one divine. The human nature is confined to space, the divine one isn't. Each are united to the other but there is no mixing of the two. One cannot compare the post-incarnate Christ's human-deity personhood with God the Father allegedly having a body, since it is perfectly clear from Scripture that Jesus' body was knit in the womb of Mary, a created thing. Nowhere does it say in Scripture that the Father from all eternity has possessed two natures like Christ has since the incarnation began. As has been pointed out before, the Bible indicates that God is spirit, and flesh and spirit are not the same thing. Jesus said: "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." --Luke 24:39 and "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit." --John 3:6 So while God may appear in a form for the sake of humanity, that does not mean that such is his natural form. Or we could just as easily say that God exists as a burning bush or as a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, or a burning oven or any number of ways He chose to make himself visible in the pages of Scripture. What needs to be clear is that being confined to physical space is by its very nature the opposite of being omnipresent. If God the Father, having only a divine nature, is confined to a man-sized body, that nature cannot also be everywhere. Whether you call this heresy or not, it is wrong. --Joe! |