If we are made in Gods image....does that mean he has a body?

Answer 1

Absolutely. As does his son, Jesus Christ. The Holy Spirit is the one member of the Godhead without a body, just a spirit.

Answer 2

Spiritual Image

Answer 3

"In the account of the Creation of the earth, “God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness” (Gen. 1:26).

Could any language be more explicit? Does it demean God, as some would have us believe, that man was created in His express image? Rather, it should stir within the heart of every man and woman a greater appreciation for himself or herself as a son or daughter of God...

I remember the occasion more than 70 years ago when, as a missionary, I was speaking in an open-air meeting in Hyde Park, London. As I was presenting my message, a heckler interrupted to say, “Why don’t you stay with the doctrine of the Bible which says in John, ‘God is a Spirit’?”

I opened my Bible to the verse he had quoted and read to him the entire verse:

“God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth” (John 4:24).

I said, “Of course God is a spirit, and so are you in the combination of spirit and body that makes of you a living being, and so am I.”

Each of us is a dual being of spiritual entity and physical entity. All know of the reality of death when the body dies, and each of us also knows that the spirit lives on as an individual entity and that at some time, under the divine plan made possible by the sacrifice of the Son of God, there will be a reunion of spirit and body. Jesus's declaration that God is a spirit no more denies that He has a body than does the statement that I am a spirit while also having a body.

I do not equate my body with His in its refinement, in its capacity, in its beauty and radiance. His is eternal. Mine is mortal. But that only increases my reverence for Him. I worship Him “in spirit and in truth.”

Answer 4

Being made in God's image means we have the ability to show compassion. To commit to giving someone unconditional love, like parents give to their children. No other creations have these traits but humans. That is why we are in His image.

Jesus, the God-Man, has a body so in that sense, the answer is yes.

Answer 5

Because we are made in his image, we know that God has a body that looks like ours. His eternal spirit is housed in a tangible body of flesh and bones. God's body, however, is perfected and glorified, with a glory beyond all description.

Exodus 31:18 says that God wrote on tablets with his "finger." James 3:9 says we are made after the similitude [likeness] of God.
Jesus showed his resurrected body to His disciples. Luke 24:39 "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." To further prove that he had a body and was not "just a spirit" he ate food with the Apostles. In John 14:9 Jesus says "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father." So we know by these words that the Father also has a body of tangible flesh and bones. Jesus rose with his body of flesh and bones. Acts 1:11 "Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven."

So many people find it hard to understand that God is of a corporeal nature, and, despite this fact He can be everywhere present at the same time. The truth of the matter is his individual body is not everywhere at the same time, but his mind can be everywhere at the same time through the Holy Spirit. And surely his body is not weighed down by the same limitations that our mortal bodies are weighed down by. I'm sure God can travel in miraculous ways anywhere in the Universe if he so chooses to do, but to say that he cannot do this with a physical body is absurd and unscriptural, for God has all power in heaven and on earth.

Answer 6

The Father has a "form" - A Spirit "body" --- made of energy and light. He does not have a physical body made of matter such as we have. The Son has a glorified body that is not bound by natural laws. And the Holy Spirit has a Spirit body also.
We are made in His image (the free-will part of us) and His likeness (the general, physical, spiritual part of us --- body, soul and spirit).

Answer 7

Mankind was originally made in the image of God. The words “image” and “likeness” evidently do not refer to visible or bodily likeness, but to intellectual and moral likeness—likeness in “knowledge,” righteousness” and “holiness of truth.” (R.A. Torrey, What the Bible Teaches, 1898, Baker Book House Co., Grand Rapids, MI).

Paul said Jesus “... is the image of the invisible God...” (Col. 1:15; see also I Tim. 1:17). God’s express likeness in human form. God in the flesh.

Paul speaks of the Word (of God) speaking to the Thinker (God) “Wherefore when He cometh into the world, He saith Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not but a body has thou prepared for me” (Hebr. 10:5). Hence, we have the virgin birth. “And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth [Spirit]” (John 1:14). And we can see here the tri-unity of God manifested in the Lord Jesus.

Answer 8

Dear Friend:

When the bible says in his own image, it is inferring that Adam was perfect, i.e without sin.

The bible teaches us:

John 4:24God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."

So the answer is no he dies not have a physical body

God Bless

Answer 9

No, it means that our NEXT body will be like his.

Look at what happens to a fetus as it's growing. At one point it looks like an eel, at another point it looks like a puppy, etc. It's not until the baby is born and already growing up that you begin to see the family resemblance, and you'll see it in different stages.

We're not going to look like God physically until we're existing as he is.

Answer 10

Jehovah God does have a body of sorts that can be approached.
But it is mainly his qualities that we have been given.
Love, justice, power and wisdom.
And we have qualities not possessed by animals. The ability of speech, and the ability to plan ahead and even foresee potential hazards, using our thinking powers.
As to a body, even similar to ours, but not flesh and blood.
(Job 2:1) Afterward it came to be the day when the sons of the [true] God entered to take their station before Jehovah, and Satan also proceeded to enter right among them to take his station before Jehovah.