3848 - Has God a Body? by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 10, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 35.

3848 — Has God a Body?

By Editor

I have been told by many who profess to know the Bible, and I have heard ministers preach, that God has no body. At the same time, they believe and teach that the scripture in Matt. 5:8 really means what it says, that the pure in heart shall see God. Please give the scriptures telling God has a body.

It is not the wisest thing to endeavor to describe the great God. There are descriptions given in the Bible, but many of these are figurative and symbolical, indicating more the character and working of God than the form of God. If men knew what God looked like they would be likely to form images of Him and worship them, and it is for that very reason that the Lord tells the children of Israel that "ye saw no similitude." The visible revelation of God is our Lord Jesus Christ. It is said of Jesus that He was the effulgence of God's glory, and the "very image of His substance." Heb. 1:3. God is spoken of as having a throne. Dan. 7:9; Ps. 103:19. Jesus came from Him and went to Him. John 17:8; 8:13-24; 16:28. All these things show very clearly that the great God of heaven and earth is a personality, is somewhere as He is nowhere else, that He has a local habitation and a throne, the great center of the kingdom of His universe. While no mortal eye has seen Him, there will come a time when they shall see His face. More than this it does not seem to us profitable to discuss.