God in a Body

God is invisible. He doesn't have a body. He also is everywhere at once...until you read your Bible.

Re-read Genesis chapter 3.

Notice that Adam and Eve heard God coming. He was walking in the cool of the evening.

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What is this? God in a body? There are several surpirsing things in the first part of Genesis that show God invading time and space in a marked way. They are called theophanies and several of these appearances are in the form of a human body.

Read Genesis 18.

These things are NOT abnormal. Our strange Greek philosophical idea about God has led us to skim over some things that the Bible says about God. The Hebrews had no issue about these stories. The Hebrews were more concerned with WHO God is rather than WHAT God is. The Greeks saw it reversed.

The Hebrews want to know if God is angry, or close, or trustworthy.

The Greeks want to know if his being changes, or if he is omniscient.

These are overly simple, but the point is made. Different cultures ask different questions. If we want to read the words of the Bible, the Jewish Bible, it would help us to learn the questions the Hebrew had.

Who is God we begin to ask. What does he do? We find a God who early on was close to his people, communicating and even eating with them. This is wonderful.