Of course butterfly can answer for herself, but I understand her to be saying that the Universal God (the Father) has a body, but that body is very large, greater than we can comprehend or understand. I believe the implication here is that the Universal God is "All in All" (Ephesians 1:23; Ephesians 4:6; 1 Cor. 15:38). The Universal God, the Father, the God of all Gods, has a body. We could say that we are inside of the Universal God's body.AI2.0 wrote:Butterfly; When you come back...
Am I understanding you correctly? Are you saying that you believe Jesus Christ(Jehovah) has a body but God, the Eternal Father(Universal God) does not?Here's Paul calling God invisible. We know that Paul saw Jesus Christ, so He wouldn't call Jesus invisible. Paul is talking about how we should give glory to the Universal God, who is often referred to in the scriptures as being "the great spirit", "invisible" , "a voice from heaven" that people keep hearing but that largely remains unseen. Man is not fashioned after the appearance of an invisible personage of spirit, glory, and power. The Son was made to be the image of the Universal God and then man was patterned after the Son.
(Keep in mind that "the Son" is Jehovah, who is also called "God" in the scriptures, so sometimes it says man was created in the image of God- that's referring to the God Jehovah, not the Universal God that we worship).
If so, I have to point out that this belief that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ both have bodies is One doctrine the LDS church is unequivocally clear on and it comes from one of Joseph Smith Jr's accounts of the First Vision (the one in our scriptures) and is a basic tenet of our faith. He said that both God and Jesus Christ have glorified bodies of flesh and bones.
"The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man's; the Son also;" D&C130:22
-Finrock