Mormons: Is God a flesh and bone deity, or is he spectral being?

Question

Flesh and Bone

D&C 130:22 : "The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as a man's; the Son also...".

Spectral / Invisible

D&C 38:1-7: "I am in your midst and ye cannot see me."

Alma 18:26-28 says God is a spirit, confirming John 4:24 ("God is a Spirit").

This is a hot topic that other Christians drool over to rip you to shreds. Save your long-winded rants Christians, I wanted to know what the passionate Mormon has to say about this.

If you say he is flesh and bone, think about the limits this type of vessel has. If he is modeled after regular human beings, as you claim, then he must eat, drink, excrete wastes, and sleep. If his brain contains as many neurons as a normal human brain, then he could not possibly begin to master time and space.

Do you think he shape-shifts or something?

LMAO not one answer Dave, 22 minutes later. Rofl.

An hour and a half later, no answers besides yours. This is sad, they don't even want to attempt it.

Answer 1

I cannot wait to hear the sci-fi explanations for this one.

Answer 2

I will tell you what I believe.
Yes, God the Father, has a body of flesh and bones - NOT flesh, blood and bones. Blood makes the body mortal, God is immortal. He is an exalted being, who was once a man, but is a god and our God, our Heavenly Father.

Your reference to Alma - Ammon is questioning whether or not King Lamoni believes in a "Great Spirit"...there is no claim there that our Heavenly Father is a "spirit"...

Why does there have to be limits to He who is greatest of all? If you suggest He has limits, you suggest He is not really God. Remember that we believe He is an exalted being who was once a man. He has all power, all knowledge, all dominion. He has NO limits.
We cannot understand nor grasp exactly "how" God is God. We do not have a perfect knowledge as he does. Think about this also: After Christ was resurrected, and He visited his apostles and others...did they not touch and feel His resurrected body? Or did their hands pass right throug Him?
It is the same with our Heavenly Father, He is a resurrected, perfected being, a God.

There you go.

Answer 3

I am going to rip you to shreds on this one...

One simple question. Was Jesus RESURRECTED or NOT? What do you believe?

If you do not believe he was resurrected then your concept of Christianity is FALSE.

If you believe he was resurrected than you don't understand the meaning and doctrine beind it.

God the Father and Jesus are Resurrected beings.

Have you or any of your fellow Christians ever seen what a resurrected body looks like? Are they experts on the use of a Resurrected Body? Do your Christian friends know what a ressurected body is capable of?

Well since you don't and they don't I think I will take the advice of the one person who says he has, "Joseph Smith."

He says that a resurrected body is as tangiable as yours and mine, and can do different things than a mortal body can. It is pure, undefiled, and perfected. It is not held to the limits of Mortality.

A resurrected body is by definition IMMORTAL and thus is not held to the same limits as a MORTAL one.

God the Father, Jesus, Holy Ghost, You, Your Mom, Dad and even the Roach crawing up your wall all represent a bonding of a Spirit to a Body.

I suggest you put scriptures into context when quoting them, it shows intent for blatant dishonesty and bigotry.

But since you can't comprehend anything that I have said and this question is simply meant to cause a fight that you know you cannot win, I will dust my shoes off at you and leave you to ponder your Present Darkness...

Try Harder!!!

Answer 4

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.” I look to Him as my strength. I pray to Him for wisdom beyond my own. I seek to love Him with all my heart, might, mind, and strength. His wisdom is greater than the wisdom of all men. His power is greater than the power of nature, for He is the Creator Omnipotent. His love is greater than the love of any other, for His love encompasses all of His children, and it is His work and His glory to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of His sons and daughters of all generations.

Answer 5

God is a soul, like all of us would be sooner or later. Soul= physique+spirit He has an immortal perfected physique (basically as Jesus did 3 days after his crucifixion), and he has a spirit. there's no blood in a resurrected physique. Blood is possibly what makes me mortal. have been we to be lively by way of something eternal, we would additionally be eternal. How can all people declare God doesnt have a physique? Jesus confirmed his resurrected physique, he ascended in his resurrected physique. And Jesus has no longer something, his father does not. you think of he basically slipped out of it someplace between earth and heaven? Why do human beings have such animosity against something that makes God much less mystical? he's God, he's a perfected soul, which comprise his eternal spirit and resurrected perfected immortal physique. to assert that he would fairly stay someplace, on a planet of his own advent is laughable and "blasphemous" considering which you like him to he some super gaseous physique-much less spirit that floats continuously in nothingness. reason it fairly is greater relatable to you. I dont get it. human beings have a unusual and wonderful theory of what's plausible.

Answer 6

You left out one the principle of physics that is uniquely Mormon. There is no difference between spiritual and temporal matter. The prophets have told us that spiritual matter is "finer". They were not scientists, but I take this to mean that spirits are tangible, but that we just don't have the eyes to see.

Answer 7

God is a spirit, just like you and me, contained in a body. His container, however, is perfect and immortal, and doesn't have blood. Who knows what it is capable of, I don't. If He doesn't want to be seen, I'm sure He has the ability.

Answer 8

Pinkadot: your answer might resolve the conflict with Alma if we allow the stretch, but not with D&C 38.

Answer 9

this is called baiting, you already know what we believe, why ask again and again, you have so little to occupy your time???