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Where does it say God is a Spirit?
John 4
24 "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
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Where does it say God is a Spirit?
Of course I was referring to God BEFORE Jesus was born in the flesh. So you think The Son of God at Genesis 1:26-27 had a flesh body? That idea is kind of sick.
Not, or could be, which is it? You sound uncertain. Yeah, the angels aren't born in the flesh, which appears to be why the angels of Genesis 6 coveted flesh woman suggesting they were jealous of those born in the flesh, so they came to earth and took wives of flesh woman.
The way I interpret angels is that just like people on earth, there are good angels, and then there are bad angels.
If, as several have posted, it is logical that what is material, being created, is created by something from outside itself, then it is also logical, that what is immaterial, yet also created, is created by something from outside itself. The angels are created beings, and the realm in which they operate is also created.God's Word only points to 2 different dimensions of existence, this earthly dimension, and the heavenly dimension where His Abode and the angels live, behind a veil. Hebrews 11 reveals that God as a Spirit is how this material universe was created, showing that material matter did not create material matter. In John 3, Lord Jesus said that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of The Spirit is spirit. So there's only two dimensions defined in God's Word. And I like to keep it simple like His Word does.
In Isaiah 45:18, God said He did not create this earth "in vain". He said He created it to be inhabited, lived upon. Isaiah 65 shows that's how His future Kingdom will be, upon this earth. So all of men's doctrines about living up in the clouds is just fancy dreaming by those who don't really study their Bible that well.
If this temporal, material, 'flesh' is made in the image of God, then God's 'flesh' body is not the same as ours.
It is, obviously, superior. It is not to be compared to ours, but ours to it. I consider the spiritual, particularly God, to be considerably more substantial than this temporal. What we consider physical is like a vapor in comparison. Again, I said IF.
But as to your logic, the notion that it is "kind of sick" to think that the Son of God had a flesh body before being born in the flesh, how is that any sicker than to think that the Son of God had a flesh body after being born in the flesh? (And no, I do not think he had a flesh body (before his incarnation) in the same manner he did after.)
I would go with God, the Holy Spirit and the 4 holy Beasts in the Re:4 Temple are all 'residents' in Mount Sion. It is the location of the Great White Throne event as well as being the Angel's perfected heaven.Thinking of God, before any creature existed, not even a germ, God had a relational nature.
My question from this premise is, before creation, did God have a soul and or a body of matter or, are these created things? The soul, in three parts, the mind, the will and the emotions. The Spirit, soul and body, the latter two, are they created?
We are made in His image and likeness, relational beings to visit God in person, at a later time, seeing Him face to face.
This perspective can take into account other religions and gods such as the first god of Hinduism, Purusha, and Allah, and the Greek gods. And the Buddhist idea, that god can't be known. Also the rarer than Trinitarian belief of Modalism.
Does God have a face? Do the Son and the Spirit have souls and bodies each, or part of that?