CHURCH OF CHRIST: Let’s get down to some basic Mormon beliefs and establish the truth. Mormons teach that God has a body of flesh and bones as does Jesus Christ. (D & C 130:20-21). I maintain that this is absurd. John 4:24 points out that “God is a spirit” and nothing more. No place in the Bible does it state that God has a physical body. In fact, in Colossians 2:9, speaking of Christ, it tells us that “in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead BODILY.” Genesis 1:26-27 was speaking of a spiritual creation and not a literal one. You will notice that the pagans worshipped a God like to corruptible man in Romans 1:23, of whom Paul said “changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator.” I maintain that God having a physical body is blasphemy, he can take any shape or any form, because he is all powerful. MISSIONARIES: We can see how Paul felt as he stood among the Greeks and read the inscription “TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.” Gentlemen, whom therefore you ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you? (Acts 17:23). We do believe that God has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s as does the son. John 4:24 points out that God is a spirit, but notice it says, reading on, “and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” Brother Caldwell, do you leave your body home when you go to Church? It says that YOU MUST WORSHIP HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH. The context of the scripture informs us that the people of Samaria were not worshipping the Father in truth because in John 4:22, Christ told the women, “ye worship ye know not what.” 2 Kings 17:28-34 points out that these people were pagan worshippers, so Christ merely pointed out that God also had a spirit, and was not a pagan God. The scriptures also say “God is love” (1 John 4:8), “God is light” (1 John 1:5), and “God is a consuming fire” (Hebrew 12:29), so God can be and do many things. To say he is only a spirit is nonsense. Your scripture in Romans 1:20-25 was somewhat facetious proving God without a body. Read it carefully; the people were worshipping birds, four-footed beasts, and creeping things also, along with their statue of corruptible man. Christ was really declaring an eternal truth when he told pagan Samaria that God was a spirit, and was not a graven image. Acts 8:13-20 will prove to you that those good people never really received the “word of God” until Philip preached to them. Therefore, if they had not received the word of God, they were living by another word or gospel. Now, you mentioned Colossians 2:9, but here you used a scriptural rail split. Colossians 1:18-19 informs us that Christ was the head of the church, the firstborn of every creature, and it so pleased the Father that in Christ was all fullness of the Godhead to dwell in his mortal tabernacle of flesh. John 14:6 tells us that he gave of this fullness to his followers. This fullness was “the way, the truth, and the life.” You will also notice that interpreting the word BODILY as meaning Christ’s physical body is very facetious, for if you accept that literally, then you must accept the next verse literally, which reads, “And ye are complete in him.” He was speaking, of course, of the Church – as you can tell. METHODIST CHURCH: You may be right, but I am still waiting for the passage where it reads that God has a body of flesh and bones. MISSIONARIES: Sir, there is no passage in the Bible that states that God has a body of flesh and bones - but it is so plain that anyone who wants to find the truth can see it. Hebrews 1:3 tells us that Christ was in the EXPRESS IMAGE of his Father, and as Stephen was being stoned, he looked up into heaven and saw God, and Christ standing at his right hand. JEHOVAH WITNESS: This is wrong to suppose Christ to have a body as the Father. 1 Peter 4:6 tells us that the Gospel was preached also to them that are dead, that “they might be judged according to men in the flesh, but live according to God in the Spirit.” Therefore, Christ did live according to God in the Spirit. MISSIONARIES: Sir, I disagree with you emphatically, and if you accept the Bible to be the word of God, you cannot maintain that Christ laid down his physical body after his resurrection. We read in Luke 24:36-39 that Christ, after his resurrection, said “Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself, handle me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have.” Acts 1:9-11, as Christ bid farewell to his Apostles, we read that “This same Jesus which is taken up from you into Heaven.” And James 2:26 informs us that “as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.” Now, do you believe that Christ died twice – because his spirit had left his body once(Luke 23:46), and entered back into his body three days later, marking the first resurrection, and death would have entered his body again if his spirit separated from it. Paul wrote that this was an impossibility in Romans 6:9-10 when he said, “Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead DIES NO MORE, DEATH HATH NO MORE DOMINION OVER HIM.” These scriptures prove very definitely that Christ has his body with him in Heaven today, and that since Christ is in the express image of his Father, then his Father also has a body of flesh and bones.
Posted on: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:35:09 +0000
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