The Image of God?

Question

God is a spirit so why do people believe when we go into heaven god will be flesh and blood? I believe alot of people get caught up in image.

In my philosophy class my teacher brought up the nature of God. What makes God other than flesh?

My answer was....

His Flesh was Jesus Christ
His Mind his Soul the Holy Spirit
and His Spirit is himself

Just like God we have 3 parts but we are all one
When we depart from the earth we will let go of our mind and our body.

He said it was an ignorant answer.

What do you think? I thought I put alot of thought into it

Another classmate said something very close to my answer and he said good job

Answer 1

I like what you thought of and analyzed here. Just make sure that you counsel with the Father about this to see if that really is true, because by ourselves we cannot guess. He is the one who gives us revelation to know the way it really is. Cool hu?

Answer 2

When your teacher said that your answer was “ignorant,” he probably meant that your answer was not according to knowledge derived from the Bible. He could’ve expressed that in better terms, I suppose. It almost sounds as if he’s saying the speaker is ignorant. People do need to be careful how they speak.

Anyway, according to the Bible, Father God, the Son and the Holy Spirit are 3 distinct Persons, not parts of One Person. For example, when Jesus was getting baptized in the Jordan River, the Father spoke from Heaven, “This is My beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matt 3:17). Then the Holy Spirit descended upon Jesus like a dove (v16). There are other passages where Jesus is praying to Father God. According to your analogy, if Jesus (Flesh) was praying to God (Himself), then that would make God a deranged Person who talks to Himself. Not good. Rather, Father God, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit are 3 distinct Persons, who are of One Divine Essence.

The Trinity is not simple to explain. Nice try, anyway. God bless.

Answer 3

God has a spirit body, not a fleshly one. Those who will reign in heaven with his Son, Jesus, will also have spirit bodies. As 1 Cor. 15:42, 44, 45 says: "So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown a physical body, it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one. It is even so written: “The first man Adam became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit."

Jesus was not God in the flesh. Jesus is God's Son. As the apostle John said at 1 John 5:5: "Who is the one that conquers the world but he who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?"

Answer 4

Let me suggest it this way...

If you use a hammer do you become the hammer, or if you wear clothes does that make you the clothes? God is capable through the force of the universal/Holy Spirit to animate souls, and the souls in turn animate the flesh.

Jesus was soul, and flesh, but He always had fullness of Spirit. that is the soul of Jesus was so perfect a mirror for the image of God, that It was reflected perfectly, as much as each person could bear. Just as each material object reflects the same light according to its own quality, so does each human soul reflect divine attributes according to its quality at the time of its appearance. Jesus' personal soul was a flawless mirror, whilst Peter and the apostles had a few smudges, for example, but the light was still reflected. Some mirrors are so darksome, that they reflect only as a black rock, and need much polishing.

This is not to say Jesus was God, but everyone who saw Jesus, who could reflect His reflection, saw God in His mirror. Thus He said "I am the second Adam", and in Genesis Man (meaning primary Man, perfect archetype, "Man was made in the image and likeness of God."

So there is, God, who radiates within His own being, the rays of the Holy Spirit, which the Sanctified Souls of the Perfect Messenger(s) are perfect likeness of in qualities, so universally reflective, that they illumine all of humanity, to each person their portion of receptivity.

Note that Godhead is above all notion of human definition, and this is why the Universal Manifestations such as Christ appear to mankind from age to age, to teach them of God, whose image is the sole/soul remedy for all their desires, so we turn wholly toward Christ, recognizing God in Him in all attributes, but who inherently testifies "God is greater than I", for He is dependent too, "i can do nothing of myself", though first to be created, by which all else receives light/training in perfections of God.

God bless.

Answer 5

He said it was ignorant because you are still thinking within the concepts of your own religious framework. You will continue to do so until you start reading about other concepts of God and existence. If you think you already have all the answers, then that's effectively proof that you don't. THAT'S what he meant about ignorance.

Answer 6

God is the Almighty and the All-knowing,the most powerful.
Then what...?
We have to believe in him .do not make anyone a similarity to Him in any way.That could be a disaster. Thinking God like any human being(His Creation ) is to loose greatly.
So never think of images/ anything of God.Just simply believe in Him,do good things he ordered .God is unseen.You believe in gravity i hope although you do not see the power.Why are you unease on God,so?
Good luck.

Answer 7

God Image?
Nothing similar or comparable to Him.

God's revelation describing Himself in four sentences:

Title of Verses: Purity/Sincerity

http://www.mounthira.com/learning/surah/112-al-ikhlas/

Answer 8

Any God has the image those who believe in him/her/it chooses, if they're inclined to such beliefs. It is after all purely a human concept.

Answer 9

Because Jesus has retained his human body,which we partake of in the sacrament of the Eucharist.Also ,Jesus has been appearing to people in his human form.

Answer 10

Jesus Christ try to prove his divinity while he was in flesh.
Luk 9:29
As he was praying, the appearance of his face changed, and his clothes became as bright as a flash of lightning.

after he was risen from the dead he try to prove his flesh
Luk24:38
He said to them, "Why are you troubled, and why do doubts rise in your minds?
Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have."
Heb13:9
Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings. It is good for our hearts to be strengthened by grace,
not by ceremonial foods, which are of no value to those who eat them.