God was a man?

Question

if Alma 31:15 says God was once and is always a spirit how coulf he ever have been a man?

Answer 1

they believe god was a man and they will se gods

God was never a man and men will never be Gods

Answer 2

It is man's misinterpretation of scriptures that lead men to believe God was a man.

God who is spirit cannot have association with flesh. Because sinful flesh would desolve by his brightness.

That is why the Father begat his Son. Many try and say the Father is the Son, but that is contrary to the Word of God.

The Son is of the Father, but is not the Father.

Is it wrong then to call the Son God? No. For the Son had the Holy Spirit of God in him without measure. And his only will was that of the Father. All he said and did was by will of his Father in heaven.

And even in Hebrews 1 the Father refers to his Son as God.

So it was the only begotten Son who came to this world. He was of the Father, but not the Father.

And he was referred to many times as the Son of man along with the Son of God.

And the Father is not a son of man.

What is comes down to is that it was his spirit in Jesus that one can rightly call the Son God.

Yet there will come a time when the Son offers up the kingdom unto the Father, at which time he relinquishes his athority of the Godhead given him by the Father, so that the Father will be all in all. 1 Cor. 15:24-28

Answer 3

Alma is a False Gospel.

Jesus is God in human flesh. He is not half God and half man. He is fully divine and fully man. That is, Jesus has two distinct natures: divine and human. Jesus is the Word who was God and was with God and was made flesh, (John 1:1,14). This means that in the single person of Jesus is both a human and divine nature. The divine nature was not changed. It was not altered. He is not merely a man who "had God within Him" nor is he a man who "manifested the God principle." He is God, second person of the Trinity. "The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word," (Heb. 1:3, NIV). Jesus' two natures are not "mixed together," nor are they combined into a new God-man nature. They are separate yet act as a unit in the one person of Jesus. This is called the Hypostatic Union.

Answer 4

No where in God's creation does anything retrogress into something less. God wouldn't either. He did not become man. Jesus Christ was his son. Does an oak tree become an acorn? Does a butterfly become a caterpillar? Does the ocean become a stream?

Answer 5

You are wresting the scriptures and taking them out of context. As rac said, that is the prayer of an apostate group of people in the Book of Mormon that also believe that only the rich people should be allowed to enter their church.

Answer 6

That verse is quoting an apostate prayer by the wicked Zoramites.
In the Bible it states that God is a spirit and that man must worship Him in spirit and in truth. This is more accurately interpreted to mean that God is a spiritual being, having overcome the ways of the flesh as did Jesus. We are instructed, commanded to become spiritual beings as they are. Jesus said what manner of men ought ye to be, even as I am. Be ye therefore perfect even as I and your Father in Heaven are perfect.
This means that we are to put off the carnal nature of mortality and become spiritual beings like unto them. Then we can worship in spirit and in truth as instructed.
God is indeed a spiritual being and we also are spiritual beings but our spiritual nature is masked under a cloak of mortality, subject to the physical nature of our beings. It is our task to recognize and subjugate the mortal nature in favor of our spiritual nature. Then, and only then, can we become as He is.

Answer 7

The Word became flesh

Answer 8

Alma? What's that? Obviously something from a book of lies.

Answer 9

Most people of faith accept God as a man. Perhaps it is that He appears to each individual as they need Him to be.

Answer 10

Where do you get Alma at.