Norman L. Geisler, one of the leading Christian apologist and intellectual, argues that the Christ being currently a physical being is ESSENTIAL to Christianity and Salvation. The logical conclusion that God is spirit is just a attribute out of many attributes which God posses’ and limiting to one is contrary to the message of the ressurection of the faith and anti-thetical to the Gospel Message.
I agree. Maybe you should check with your Evangelical intellectuals before you so easily dismiss the merits of my theology.
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I don’t see the logic in this conclusion. Christ has a body, yes. But Christ also told us that God the Father does not.
Look at John 4:23-24, where Jesus teaches us: " Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." This means God the Father has no body, because a spirit is, by nature, an incorporeal being. As Jesus tells us elsewhere, "a spirit has not flesh and bones" (Luke 24:39). There is a big difference between being a spirit and having a spirit. Jesus says that the Father is a spirit, not that the Father has a spirit; this means that he lacks a body entirely. Unless Jesus is lying.
I’m really missing your point here.
N,
maybe you shouldn’t pick and choose from intellectuals
work to support a doctrine. Norm Geisler was one of
my teachers in seminary. If he knew you were using
his work on the resurrection to support the cultic
teachings of mormonism, he’d spit nails!
In other words, N&L I knew Norm Geisler, I had Norm Geisler
as a teacher... and ...