Timeline for Jesus denied being a spirit (Luke 24:39), yet God is spirit (John 4:24). Can we connect the dots and conclude that Jesus is not God?
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| Mar 4, 2021 at 4:07 | comment | added | Nihil Sine Deo | I think it’s simpler still. We humans are triads at a minimum (in general), body, soul and spirit. I cannot however say I am spirit because without the body or soul I am no longer me. I am more than just a spirit. God however is spirit, not requiring a body to house him. Jesus saying he was not a spirit merely meant that he was not ONLY a spirit because he had flesh and bones. That’s not to say He isn’t God incarnate, just that he is not merely a spirit. Not all spirits have bodies and not all bodiless spirits are God. | |
| Mar 4, 2021 at 1:13 | comment | added | Hold To The Rod | @JesusSaves thanks for your thoughts. I'm sorry if you found the "God is love" discussion unhelpful. It was offered as an illustration (kind of like the cat argument); the claims of my argument would work without either illustration. The point of discussing another idiom was to note the danger in a literal translation of an idiom. I do believe "God is Spirit" over-simplifies in English what is being said in Greek. I don't mind if you disagree, but I believe the "God is a spiritual being" translation of the sources I cited better captures what is being said. Either way, thanks for the dialogue! | |
| Mar 4, 2021 at 0:23 | comment | added | Jesus Saves | Your rejection of premise #1 to support the argument (God is spirit (from John 4:24) is flawed. Just because the idiom “God is love” is similar, it is not sufficient to reject premise #1. Love is a characteristic of God (God is love), where Spirit is an identity (God is Spirit). | |
| Mar 3, 2021 at 23:46 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
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| Mar 3, 2021 at 23:35 | history | answered | Hold To The Rod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |