Do Christians consider God to be just a spirit or someone who was once alive and now dead?
2006-07-30 10:50:20 · 28 answers · asked by Violet 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Neither. They have a hard time discribing what god is. But he never lived as a person.
2006-07-30 10:53:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am a Bible believing Christian, though not a fundamentalist. I feel that the Bible is not always interpreted quite correctly by the majority of Christians. I think that the God of the Bible is not just a spirit, but He has a glorified body. Not really a physical body like ours, but a glorified body. There is substantial evidence to suggest this in the Bible. Adam heard the sound of God walking in the garden. (Do spirits make noise walking?) God spoke with Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend. In Genesis chapter 18 it tells how three "men" appeared to Abraham. One of them was Yahweh, the LORD. Ezekiel describes how he saw the form of a man, who was apparently God. So my personal conclusion would be, The God of the Bible does definitely have some sort of visible body.
2006-07-30 18:17:42 · answer #2 · answered by oceansoflight777 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God has always been and always will be alive. In all ways. Physically, spiritually and in ways we cannot possibly comprehend.
There is nothing that God cannot be do or have. God is not JUST anything.
God is the energy of pure love and the process of life itself. All ways, everywhere, eternally.
I don't believe that God is a being, or an old guy with a white beard and robes in the sky though, judging and condemning us.
2006-07-30 17:57:36 · answer #3 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians consider God to be an omnipresent being, the Holy Spirit is a spirit and Jesus was a person but after his Resurrection, is now considered a perfected human/spirit.
I hope this came close to whay you are asking. Its pretty hard to define in words.
2006-07-30 17:56:33 · answer #4 · answered by Lisa the Pooh 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alive, Spirit.
2006-07-30 17:56:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well I'm catholic and I was taught that god was divine. I never really understood it though I mean three people is the one person? Actually if you think about it god is just a factor. The Trinity(god, the holy spirit and Jesus) is the thing we should be worshiping the most. I not too sure about my religion so......
Actually I'm stuck in neutral now I have to think about this
And Joe C god was a human being. At least a part of him was. You remember Jesus?
2006-07-31 16:07:26 · answer #6 · answered by *333Half-Evil* 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian. I believe in God the Father and his Son Jesus Christ. I believe they once excised as a Spirit but now have an eternal immortal body. They are not dead, they are living souls like you and me.
2006-07-30 18:00:39 · answer #7 · answered by Brenmore 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All of the above and then some. He was and is a spirit, he was alive, then died, then came back, then left again, then he he was supposed to show up yet again - but that was a while ago. And some folks believe he'll be back sometime between next week and next general elections in the U.S. (They've been thinking that for about 2,000 years.)
2006-07-30 17:56:51 · answer #8 · answered by JAT 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
GOD IS A SPIRIT,Joh:3:16: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Joh:3:17: For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Joh:3:18: He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
Joh:3:19: And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
Joh:3:20: For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
Joh:3:21: But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.
2006-07-30 18:26:09 · answer #9 · answered by flindo61 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is. not was. He is the Creator of heaven and Earth. i like the answer that Maven gave that God is Everywhere and nowhere. by no means should anyone believe that God is dead. I don't even feel right writing those words. if you read the Bible you will see that what is going on in this world right now is in there. God is the beginning of everything in this world.
2006-07-30 18:25:10 · answer #10 · answered by belindashere2 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is the Eternal Father. The father of all the spirits of men. He is the great creator the ruler of the universe. He directed the creation of this earth on which we live. In his image man was created. He is personal. he is real. he is individual. he has "a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's and yes he is alive.
2006-07-30 18:05:58 · answer #11 · answered by saintrose 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋