011. Has God a body, or is He merely an invisible spirit?

Has God a body, or is He merely an invisible spirit? When we say that God is a person we do not mean that He is possessed of hands, and feet, and legs, and eyes, and nose. These are marks of corporeity, not of personality. When we say that God is a person we mean that He is a being who knows, and feels, and wills, and is not merely blind, unintelligent force. Jesus says in John 4:24 : “God is [a] spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” And in Colossians 1:15 we read that God is “invisible,” or unseeable. But while God in His eternal essence is unseeable He does manifest Himself in visible form. For example, we read in Exodus 24:9-10 that Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders saw the God of Israel. It is also clear from a study of the different passages in the Old Testament where “the Angel of the Lord” is mentioned that it was God Himself who manifested Himself in this being. We are taught in Php 2:6 that Christ Jesus existed originally (see margin, R.V.) “in the form of God.” The Greek word translated “form” in this passage means the outward form, that by which one is visible to the eye, and the thought beyond a question is that Jesus Christ in His original state was seen by the angelic world in a form that was outwardly manifest as divine. We may safely conclude from this and other passages of Scripture that while God in His eternal essence is purely spiritual and invisible, nevertheless He manifests Himself in the angelic world and has manifested Himself from all eternity in an outward, visible form.