In the Bible, most specifically book of Job, God is described as a sentient being, with emotion, haning a bady, living in a fixed place. This limits God to A physical time and place, wich is tantamount to saying, God is limited. How do Christians explain this? Does God have a "special" body? Or does Christian dogma provide something other than a deus ex machina?
2006-07-25 13:27:08 · 4 answers · asked by Physics is the Answer. 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
*Having a Body, Book Of Job; these are the grammar boo-boos I caught.
2006-07-25 13:28:08 · update #1
omnipotent, he can do ANYTHING.
2006-07-25 13:37:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The christian source of info is the new testament with referance to the hebrew scriptures (old testament). God manafests himself in many ways. The burning bush for moses. He mostly is a voice.
The catholics use a holy trinity aspect which makes god into three forms, the father, the son (that would be Jesus) and The holy Spirit. Other christian sects pretty much go along with this aspect although they may not define it the same.
2006-07-25 21:04:20 · answer #2 · answered by mickyyyyy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God consists of three parts, the Trinity.
God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. All three lived interdependently of one another since before time began, yet Jesus took on a flesh and bone body so that He could fulfill His purpose of atoning for sins on earth. This is the only fleshly body God possesses. This is not to say God does not possess a spiritual body. God the Father is a spiritual body, and the Holy Spirit is obviously one as well. The Holy Spirit provides guidance, a conscience, comfort, discernment and the ability to exercise spiritual gifts such as pastoring, apostleship, and the like. God's spiritual body has parts just like the physical, so it is not an inconsistency in the Bible for his parts to be referred to before Jesus' time on earth. They were always present, just not always visible.
God is not limited at all, except God as Jesus on earth chose to limit Himself in order to be fully human, yet without the sin nature, so that he could fully sympathize with us in our weakness.
If anything, this choice to be limited proves His omnipotence even further because His power is not something to be grasped at, but something that is part of His nature. God cannot be considered limited just as humans cannot be considered omnipotent. It is simply not in our respective natures.
Hope this helped :-)
2006-07-25 21:42:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
god had a body when he was born, the only limits is what you put on your self but you have to remember the spritie is free in side the soul you have choices of how you want to live, pray, teach, learn. or to find fault .
2006-07-25 20:34:47 · answer #4 · answered by LENORE P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋