If this question is true, then why has God not done so? Remember, if you answer Jesus has appeared and will come again, God is still in heaven. Jesus prayed to his father in heaven many times indicating God was not in the physical world.
2007-03-05 14:49:23 · 17 answers · asked by MoPleasure4U 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You ask a question and then turn around and answer it yourself. Jesus was God made flesh. He died a human death on the cross. However, He rose again, and will come back again to earth. It's called the Second Coming.
2007-03-05 14:52:52 · answer #1 · answered by Esther 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Of course God could, why would we think that a being who created everything would be in some way limited by it? When you ask why God has not done so, what you are doing is testing Him and He is not accountable to humans for what He does or doesn't do. Furthermore, why do you specifically ask why He hasn't materialized? Is there some reason that He should? How do you know that He hasn't? As for the Jesus thing, Jesus is the part of God that came to earth in human form, and when He spoke to His father He was talking to God the Father. They are the same God, but different as well. We can't truly understand it, just as you or I can't imagine a new primary colour, but outside of the physical universe and the laws that constrain it, it must be possible.
2007-03-05 23:00:11 · answer #2 · answered by DawnL 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why is it that people seem to have no problem with the idea that God can live in people's heart and still live in heaven at the same time. But as soon as you suggest that he was Jesus and still in heaven at the same time, they reject it? Either way, he is inhabiting a human body and still in heaven.
Read Philippians 2:5-11. It explains that Jesus was God, but gave up that position for a time to become human. While in human form, he was obedient to God according to the scripture. So he had to have been both in heaven and on earth at once.
After his death and resurrection, he returned to his position as God, so that it is to Jesus that every knee must bow and every tongue confess that he is Lord. According to Colossians 2:9, Jesus was all of the Godhead in bodily form. According to 1 Timothy 3:16, God was manifest in the flesh.
So God did manifest in the physical world as Jesus.
2007-03-05 23:16:48 · answer #3 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jesus is the Word made flesh - the Word Who in the beginning was with God, and WAS GOD. Unless Jesus was God, his death could not have gained salvation for the entire human race. No mere human being could accomplish that. Then again, no mere human being could raise the dead, command the sea, multiply food, change water into wine, cure lepers, cripples and the blind, forgive sins, rise from the dead, and ascend into heaven.
2007-03-05 22:58:37 · answer #4 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jesus prayed to God the Father. He was God too.
but as for God the Father materializing in the physical world, won't happen. Jesus is gunna do that, and it won't be pretty....
2007-03-05 22:54:01 · answer #5 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Of course God can show Himself at anytime! He did just that, accompanied by His Beloved Son, when He appeared to the boy Joseph Smith in the spring of 1820.
Read the Joseph Smith History found in every Book of Mormon and learn for yourself the magnitude of such an appearance.
2007-03-05 23:07:26 · answer #6 · answered by Guitarpicker 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God the father, is of such great light and energy that we on this dense physical world couldn't handle it. He is the creator of the universe, remember.
He does descend in more subtle ways. He spoke to Jesus and you can contact Him via the small still voice within you. God couldn't come so he sent us.
2007-03-05 22:58:17 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
God has the power and the will to make himself felt and known in the Universe so I highly doubt if it would make any difference if he materialized. And who's to say that he hasn't? After all, if a man walked up to you tonight and said he was God you would swear he was a false prophet.
2007-03-05 22:54:58 · answer #8 · answered by Heaven's Messenger 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God says: "Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all living entities, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form."
He appears exactly in His eternal body, uncontaminated by this material world. He appears in the same transcendental body.
He comes to this material world in every millennium, not when we want, but when He wants. And when He comes not anyone can recognize Him, He says:
"I am never manifest to the foolish and unintelligent. For them I am covered by My internal potency, and therefore they do not know that I am unborn and infallible."
2007-03-06 00:03:17 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. In Gnosticism the true Father cannot have direct contact with this realm without destroying it. That is why he sent his son, Christ. The false creator god, on the other hand, did at one time. However, Christ disarmed him and the Archons (Colossians 2:15, The Pistis Sophia).
2007-03-05 22:54:41 · answer #10 · answered by Wisdom in Faith 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No I do not. I don't believe that Mary was a virgin either. Although I do believe in God and much of the st of the Christian religion. I can write a book telling you something different and if I can convince enough uneducated people to follow my writings and say that they were the chronicles of some hiher being I have created a religion. 2000 years later I have millions of followers, how is that different from Christianity?
2007-03-05 22:53:12 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋