Christians: How come Jesus is sitting at the right hand of God, if as you claim, God is "incorporeal"?

Question

Many of you have said that "God is incorporeal and lives in a different dimension", so how can an incorporeal being have a "right hand"?

Or is it yet another metaphor for something you can't figure out yet?

Jon M...I guess you dropped your brains while doing Pilates...

Answer 1

Interesting question.

Answer 2

I'm not sure why you're having trouble with this concept, it's pretty straight forward. The people who physically wrote the Bible were, well, people. They were writing from a eurocentric mindset and, thus, wrote in terms that a eurocentric mind could comprehend. In the eurocentric mindset, one of the ways to convey a person't importance was where they were seated in relation to the person in charge. The most important person, other than the one in charge, was usually seated at that person's right hand. So when the writers said that Jesus was at God's right hand, they didn't mean a physical right hand, they were referring to Jesus's place in the hierarchy, since europeans need to see a hierarchy in order to understand systems. Actually, Jesus is a part of the Trinity which is God the father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit, the three that are actually one; this just doesn't translate well for people who need to see a person in charge. God meets us where we are, not where we should be.

Answer 3

Since he is a Spirit beyond the power of humans to see (Joh 4:24), any description of his appearance in human terms can only approximate his incomparable glory. (Isa 40:25, 26) While not actually seeing their Creator (Joh 1:18), certain of his servants were given inspired visions of his heavenly courts. Their description of his presence portrays not only great dignity and awesome majesty but also serenity, order, beauty, and pleasantness.—Ex 24:9-11; Isa 6:1; Eze 1:26-28; Da 7:9; Re 4:1-3; see also Ps 96:4-6.

These descriptions employ metaphors and similes, likening God’s appearance to things known to humans—jewels, fire, rainbow. These include descriptions as though he had certain human features. Concerning references to God’s "eyes," "ears," "face" (1Pe 3:12), "arm" (Eze 20:33), "RIGHT HAND" (Ex 15:6), it is obvious that such expressions are necessary for the description to be humanly comprehensible.

Answer 4

It's a metaphore. It means that Jesus is with God the Father. Teh argumentive point is a waste of time anyway right? What's the difference if Jesus is on the right or not .. . the truth is, God can do anything. He could physically be sitting on the right hand and be completely spiritual. If you remember, Jesus was all man and all God. He is unlimited. He is God.

The question is, do you believe in God. If so, do you have a personal relationship with Him? Anything else is trivial.

Answer 5

What are you trying to say. An incorporeal being is a whole being all to its self, not incorporated (in part with others).
God is one whole spirit being being setting on His throng, with His Son Jesus setting at His right Hand. They are both incorporeal.

Answer 6

The left side of the body was considered dirty in many cultures at the time the Bible was written. These nations didn't have toilet paper, however they did have their left hand. So the left side of the body traditionally represented evil and impurity.

Answer 7

maybe it doesn't answer your question, but the God I believe in is very corporeal. He is made of flesh and bone. and very tangible.
but besides my own personal view, whos to say that beings of different dimensions dont have arms? or hands? or feet? or whatever? If he's a being in a different dimension, maybe he has body parts in a different dimension too...

Answer 8

I even have been attempting to comprehend this and function been looking into issues. As i'm wisdom it...all of them come from the comparable source, even us. Jesus and God walk jointly as a unit. while Jesus died on the flow and his physique lifted to heaven, he left his holy spirit at the back of. while we've the holy spirit, we inventory the healthful of armour that Jesus left us. Then as God and Jesus walk jointly, he additionally walks with us while we've the holy spirit. God is God and he might properly be everywhere and everywhere at any time. I mean, think of approximately it...God made the entire earth, heaven and all existence. we are his splendid introduction ever. As people, we glance on the international in a different way. The spirit international works in any different case and lots greater rapidly. it particularly is complicated for us to be certain because of the fact our actuality of issues is plenty different than theirs. they are able to be at your place and worldwide. it particularly is complicated to describe particularly. As all of us be conscious of, scientists are additionally attempting to be conscious of ways dimensions artwork. one way they needed to study it grow to be via taking off the black hollow in outer area with that super magnetic kit they had outfitted. I wish i ought to submit to in strategies the call of it, whether it is been a on a similar time as. there are different controversies over this regardless of the undeniable fact that. One concern is the reality that in the event that they open it...shall we lose gravity and be sucked in. Heaven isn't as a procedures away as maximum think of it particularly is. it is not up in the clouds as some think of. we can't in any respect have each and all of the solutions till our day comes and we bypass. till finally then....i assume we can save searching for solutions.

Answer 9

God made man in his own image.

this means we are all mini-me's of god (how vein would you actually have to be, to create an entire species that looks like you?)

So if we are all gods mini-me's, then it must follow that god looks something like us, so unless he's a bit deformed or handicapped, then he must have a right (and indeed left) hand.

Of course this only really applies, if you are stupid enough to believe in any religion that says "do what i say or I'll smite you, you buggers", like Christianity.

Answer 10

Cuz He does have a right hand as well as a left. In fact He has an entire body. We were created in His image after all. To think God is some big ball of floating light and energy, or whatever, is just stupid.