What baffles me is when people give GOD ...the Infinite Eternal Power the ONE Power....when they give GOD human characteristics...
Like GOD is a human sitting in the clouds.....you know? why he does this? why he does that?
That has always baffled me.
First off there are the scriptures in the bible that tell us that God created man and woman in their image and likeness
Genesis 1:26-27
26 And God said, Let us make man in
our image, after
our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
27 So God created man in
his own image, in the
image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
There are additional verses that speak of God having the same traits and we humans do:
Genesis 32:30
30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God
face to face, and my life is preserved.
Exodus 33:21-23
21 And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock:
22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with
my hand while I pass by:
23 And I will take away
mine hand, and thou shalt see
my back parts: but
my face shall not be seen.
Jesus was also God before coming to this earth:
John 1:1,14
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.
Jesus became a man and was resurrected as an immortal man and is still a man. Jesus in his resurrected immortal state has a body of flesh and bones and can eat just as all mortals do.
Luke 24:36-43
36 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
39
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself:
handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them
his hands and his feet.
41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
42 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
43
And he took it, and did eat before them.
Here we see that Jesus is a resurrected man with a body of flesh and bones in the shape of mankind. He even can still eat and be touched. Later we learn that Jesus in his immortal resurrected body of flesh and bones is the very express image of the person of the Father:
Hebrews 1:1-3
1 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets,
2 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;
3
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;
God the Father and Jesus Christ are immortal exalted men.
