Q&A.315.THE BIBLE – What Is GOD’s Form?
What form does God take? The Bible says He is a spirit, but then man
was made in His image.
In John 4:24, we read, “God is a Spirit: And those who worship Him must
do so in spirit and truth.” But keep in mind that because God is a spirit, it does
not mean that He is just an ethereal vapor or that He can’t have a body. Many
believe that spiritual things cannot be physical. That’s a misconception. God
wants you to be spiritual, and yet you still have a physical body.
Angels are spirits living in a spiritual realm, but the Bible repeatedly
identifies them as having a form. “Are they not all ministering spirits sent forth
to minister for those who will inherit salvation?” (Hebrews 1:14). God the Father
is a spirit, but Daniel sees God on His throne and describes what He looked like
in that vision (Daniel 7:9).
Of course, Jesus now has a physical, human body. When He rose from the
dead, He received a glorified body. Remember what Jesus said to His disciples:
“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” (Luke 24:39). He said a spirit, or
ghost, does not have flesh like Him. He had a spiritual body, yet He ate in front
of them to emphasize that He was real. When we get our new bodies, they will
be real but also spiritual—like Jesus now has. “It is sown a natural body; it is
raised a spiritual body” (1 Corinthians 15:44). And Philippians 3:21 adds, “Who
shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.”
Hebrews 1:3 says, “Who being in the brightness of his glory, and the express
image of his person … sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high.” Now,
doesn’t it ring true that God must have a form if Jesus is sitting at His right
hand?
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