God Is Somebody

I have just a couple of thoughts today about the widely embraced idea that God the Father does not have a body of his own. Everyone agrees that Jesus has a body, and some uphold that Jesus is in fact THE bodily manifestation of God. I’ve run across plenty of folks, and I’m talking about God’s people, who are plainly opposed to the whole concept of Jesus being the Son of God; but rather that he alone IS God. Friends, if I need to reference scriptures here that show that Jesus is indeed the SON of God, then you need to find something else to do with your time other than playing like you’re a follower and believer of Jesus Christ, or a student of the holy Bible. Of course he’s the Son of God, and that poses a really BIG problem to the mindset that God doesn’t have a body. Hebrews 1:3 plainly says that Jesus is “the express image of HIS person [i.e. God].” Now the Hebrew word ‘Charakter’ is where the term “express image” comes from in this verse, and it can be defined as “a precise reproduction in every respect, i.e facsimile.” How can Jesus be the express image of God’s person, or a precise reproduction, if God doesn’t have a body? That would have to mean that Jesus doesn’t have a body either, because he has been begotten in the Father’s image (Heb. 1:4). Then we have another problem with the school of thought that God the Father doesn’t have his own body, but actually it’s the SAME problem. The apostle Paul gives us some simplistic instruction to consider about the order of things in God’s creation: “But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God” (I Cor. 11:3). First of all let’s just think about what is written in the quoted text here. A woman is a separate person from a man, and a man is a separate person from Christ; so by the same token Christ has to be a separate person from God the Father. That is what is there. we also know that women have bodies, and that men have bodies, and also that Jesus Christ has a body. In the same writing Paul clearly states that “the [man] is the image and glory of God” (I Cor. 11:7).

Of course we know for certain from the account of the creation in Genesis 1:26 that man has been created in the image of God, where God speaks to someone else who is also God, saying, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Seeing that the scriptures are consistent with the fact that God “created all things by Jesus Christ,” we know that it was the Son to whom he was speaking (Eph. 3:9; Jn. 1:3; Col. 1:16; Heb. 1:2). It had to be the Son because there simply is no one else who is also God, as the scriptures and God himself has declared Jesus to be (Jn. 1:1; Heb. 1:8). Jesus is also God because he alone was directly begotten of the Father, and thereby consists of nothing but the Father’s substance wholly (Jn. 1:14; Jn. 3:16; I Jn. 4:9; etc.). That is why Jesus is also God and why God could say to him, “Let US make man in OUR image.” Okay, now what I want to point out here is the simplistic fact that man CANNOT be made in the image of God if God doesn’t have his own body. Period. So our being made in the image of God HAS TO include the fact that God has a body, even as Jesus being “the express image of his person” includes the undeniable truth that God has a body of his own. There simply is no way around it, other than total confusion that is. Friend, let’s not say that God is noBODY, or that he’s not anyBODY. Let’s acknowledge the plain truth that he really is someBODY! You see, even our language itself shows that somebody cannot be anybody unless they HAVE A BODY! The only person who doesn’t have a body is NOBODY! And who do you figure it is that wants us to inadvertently say that God is nobody? I’ll tell you who it is; it is someone who has been DISEMBODIED, and wants to turn everything around backwards as he always does. The devil has thousands of ways to get folks to see him as God, and to see God as him. The idea that God doesn’t have a body of his own is one of his biggies. Amen.