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Tuesday, September 2, 2014

Does God Have A Body?

The other day my step dad and I were talking about a scripture in  Doctrine and Covenants 130:22 where it says:

The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones, but is a personage of Spirit. Were it not so, the Holy Ghost could not dwell in us.

Now to many religions this is false doctrine because they have been taught that the godhead is one person and they don't have bodies of flesh and blood. This is not true, Heavenly Father and Jesus have bodies and the Holy spirit doesn't as it says in the above scripture. The idea that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ don't have bodies and that they are one person was decided at the Council of Nicaea by 300 bishops. This is wrong because men cannot decide what God is like or any other doctrines of the gospel. God has to tell his people what he is like and the doctrines of the gospel or else it is not true. So now your probably saying, "What has God said about His having a body or not and if He is one person or just one of three individuals in the Godhead?" Well, the scripture above can be proof enough for many LDS, but for many others it means nothing so my step dad mentioned a place in the bible.

Near the end of Jesus' 40 day time on Earth after His resurrection He gathered His disciples and it says:
 And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.
 10 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel;
 11 Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.
So why when Jesus was gone would God send two angels to talk to his disciples? What I believe is that God would send those two angels to tell his apostles not only about the second coming, but also that since Jesus left with a body He will return "in like manner."

Throughout the scriptures it refers to God having a body such as:

Genesis 32:20
"...for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."

Exodus 24:10
 10 And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.

I would like to bear my testimony that God the Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit are separate beings and that God and Jesus have bodies of flesh and blood. In the name of Jesus Christ. Amen

1 comment:

  1. This is great Cody! Good job! I believe that God had a body just like all of us at one point in time and I also believe that during the second coming he will return in that same body. I love you. Keep doing what you love.

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