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Julie posted:
I completely agree--especially in regards to reasoning and guidance of the Holy Spirit.
Okay, so let me give you a few verses and see how you interpret them and why?
(May I join you? Perhaps I could shed a little light for you.)
John 4:24 "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
In the Greek there is no article 'a.' It says God is Spirit. . .period. It does NOT say He is flesh or bones, and Jesus said:
Luke 24:39
Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see I have."
NKJV
Letting Scripture define Scripture, God is Spirit, and God does not have flesh and bones. (speaking of the FATHER of course)
Acts 7:55-56 "But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God, And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God."
With a little more to show the CONTEXT:
Acts 7:54-60
54 When they heard these things they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed at him with their teeth. 55 But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God, 56 and said, "Look! I see the heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God!"
57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, stopped their ears, and ran at him with one accord; 58 and they cast him out of the city and stoned him. And the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul. 59 And they stoned Stephen as he was calling on God and saying, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit." 60 Then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice, "Lord, do not charge them with this sin." And when he had said this, he fell asleep.
NKJV
Do you think that we will NOT see the separate PERSONS of God when we get to heaven? Or that we won't recognize the Father? Do you think we WON'T 'see more clearly' when we see heaven?
Do you think that God the Father lied when He said HE is the only God (Isaiah 43:10)???
Hebrews 1:3-4 "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;Being made so much better than the angels, as he hath by inheritance obtained a more excellent name than they.
Is Jesus a liar, or is Jesus speaking of a SPIRITUAL 'sitting down' with God. REMEMBER, Paul said that to be absent from his body was to be present with the Lord. Do you think they were speaking of PHYSICAL bodies, or SPIRITUAL bodies?
Isa 44:8 "Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no God; I know not any."
Isa 43:10-11
10 "You are My witnesses," says the Lord,
"And My servant whom I have chosen,
That you may know and believe Me,
And understand that I am He.
Before Me there was no God formed,
Nor shall there be after Me.
11 I, even I, am the Lord,
And besides Me there is no savior.
NKJV
UNLESS you would care to call God a liar (claiming He contradicts Himself), THERE IS ONLY ONE GOD EXTANT AND HE DOES NOT KNOW OF ANY OTHERS.
Yet joe smith in pgp abraham 3 claimed he met with other gods, sent three of them to earth to 'organize' the earth, etc.
So smith had to have LIED. The God of the Bible stated JUST THE OPPOSITE of your theories that you could become a god of your own little world, etc etc etc