God is A Spirit...Genesis 1?

God IS a Spirit

Jhn 4:24 God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.

Being made in God's image means that just like him, we are fundamentally spiritual in nature ourselves

Yes there are many things about the Bible that can be "mysterious" as you put it. But with much study you begin to understand it more and more. The easiest way for me to answer your question is to say yes, God is Spirit. He has a spirit, 1 Holy Spirit. And yet He has 3 forms of Himself. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. When the Father said "let US make man in our own image He was speaking to the "Son" part of Him and the "Holy Spirit" part of Him. I rationalize it like this. I am a mother, a daughter and I have a spirit. There's three in one right there. I am also a wife, a sister, an aunt, a neice, a cousin, etc. Yet I still only have one spirit. Hope this helps some.

Yes, the Bible is a mysterious book, full of spiritual mysteries...!! God is Spirit. God is a Trinity: Three Natures in One Essence. How can this be? Let's use a practical example: let's say you paint a wall three different colors. You paint a layer of white, then red, then black. Or maybe the other way around...it doesn't matter. What you end up with is layers of paint. Each layer has its own color hue, or tint or intensity--or nature. Yet all three are still paint. Well, paint is not spirit. But the same holds true in spiritual life. There are 3 Natures of God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, and Each has slightly different attributes, for lack of a better word, yet all Three are God.

We humans, confined to the natural world cannot totally know the nature of the supernatural or spiritual world. If we are made in the Image of God, then we have to accept that. Perhaps it means that God took His own spiritual nature, and wrapped it in flesh...so when He says He made us in His Image, He means our soul is made in His spiritual Image...We don't know, and it does not matter. We know we are made in some fashion after God, so we are His children---of Him. We have capacity of soul, or a spiritual side to us an our lives. It's important to know that in order to develop that capacity of soul. You can see here on this site that many people do not develop their spiritual capacity of soul. How do we do that? Jesus Christ, God, took on human flesh, and came to earth to live among us and show us how. Then in addition to that, He died to cover our sins for us, and resurrected Himself (because He is God, and has dominion over life and death, so He could) to show us there is eternal life, and the bonds of death will not hold us forever.

Now, about how the Natures of the Three Persons of The Godhead differ: The Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of Truth, so that is His Nature. Jesus Christ is called the Son of God, or Word of God...and that is because He came to earth and lived here...was born without an earthly father, and did indeed speak to us. Every thing He said while He was here was salvific, or good for our salvation and entrance to heaven. God the Father is pretty self explanatory...all-knowing, all-seeing and everywhere present...the Creator of all that there is...

Good question. Hope that lended a little bit of clarity.

it isn't valid to apply any temporal numeral to characterize God. How about; ? + ? + ? What does that equivalent? Christians have self assurance that God is tri-une (One essence, 3 personal differences [Father, Son, Holy Spirit]). some Christians actually have self assurance that human beings are tri-une (One personal enormous distinction, 3 essences [body, soul, spirit]). be conscious that human beings and God are tri-une in opposite approaches. it truly is demanding for our finite minds to get our heads round God's Trinity (tri-cohesion) because it truly is counter intuitive to our finite understanding of the particular universe. yet God is eternal, and for this reason His existence isn't constrained through the guidelines that govern our actual existence Mathematician, David Malcom places it this form; “No passable info has ever been devised to coach that the necessary huge form idea is universally genuine; quite proofs were recommend indicating that such an evidence will be no longer attainable. consequently, arithmetic won't be able to contradict the scriptural training that God exists as 3 persons in cohesion. even with the indisputable fact that, the enormous form idea can and must be conventional (it truly is in accordance to the intuitionist mind-set) as being ideal suitable for this introduction.”

The bible is not mysterious because God wants us to understand it....so we will know the right way to go....before humans were created God had created the heavenly family of angels.....which are spirit persons who live in the heavens.....the first angel created has come to be known as His only begotten son as they developed a close father son relationship.....now the holy spirit is a force that God has in which He can create things, perform miracles, help people etc.....this force was also used to create the first humans....when God said let US make man in OUR own image he was speaking to His only begotten son and it was through His son everything was created.....if you read John 3:16 this is the son that came to earth so that we may live. You really need to study the bible just for your own knowledge it is really amazing at what you can learn

i disagree with you.

God our Heavenly Father is an IMMORTAL He WAS the ONLY immortal. until jesus and the first fruits were resurrected.

Jesus is now like God, resurrected in an immortal body of flesh and bone,

and the scritpures in the new testament give us a promise that we will be like them someday.

if we are faithful and overcome all things, in fact, the promise in the book of revelation that jesus will be our God and we will be his sons. im hoping for the alternate path but this might be the only probable path.

Jesus was a spirit before he was born. he was the bright and morniing star, i would say brighter morning star to differentiate between him and lucifer.

but jesus did not rebel against God, and lucifer caused the war in heaven, is it any wonder we are still in the same war but only contintued on this planet.

the Holy Ghost is a spirit personage also, the three together rule in heaven. and are part of the greater Godhead and government in heaven. christianity lost this knowledge which was plain at one time, and because of loss knowledge, there is a gap which imagination fill. studying the scriptures fills in a few things, and revelation and prophecy fill in alot more.

I like to think of the trinity like this: God the Father is like the sun (you know big ball of fire) so bright but yet you cannot look at it. The Holy Spirit is like the heat of the sun, you cant see it but you can feel it. The Son (Jesus) is like the light of the sun. You can see the light it helps you discern. Think of your room at night, when you look around your room at night you see things distorted and it may scare you. But when you turn the light on you see the objects as they really are. Jesus is the light of the world and the only way to get to heaven.

Man. - Man is a new species, essentially different from all other kinds on earth. "In our image, after our likeness." He is to be allied to heaven as no other creature on earth is. He is to be related to the Eternal Being himself. This relation, however, is to be not in matter, but in form; not in essence, but in semblance. This precludes all pantheistic notions of the origin of man. "Image" is a word taken from sensible things, and denotes likeness in outward form, while the material may be different. "Likeness" is a more general term, indicating resemblance in any quality, external or internal. It is here explanatory of image, and seems to show that this term is to be taken in a figurative sense, to denote not a material but a spiritual conformity to God. The Eternal Being is essentially self-manifesting. The appearance he presents to an eye suited to contemplate him is his image. The union of attributes which constitute his spiritual nature is his character or likeness.

We gather from the present chapter that God is a spirit Genesis 1:2, that he thinks, speaks, wills, and acts (Genesis 1:3-4, etc.). Here, then, are the great points of conformity to God in man, namely, reason, speech, will, and power. By reason we apprehend concrete things in perception and consciousness, and cognize abstract truth, both metaphysical and moral. By speech we make certain easy and sensible acts of our own the signs of the various objects of our contemplative faculties to ourselves and others. By will we choose, determine, and resolve upon what is to be done. By power we act, either in giving expression to our concepts in words, or effect to our determinations in deeds. In the reason is evolved the distinction of good and evil Genesis 1:4, Genesis 1:31, which is in itself the approval of the former and the disapproval of the latter. In the will is unfolded that freedom of action which chooses the good and refuses the evil. In the spiritual being that exercises reason and will resides the power to act, which presupposes both these faculties - the reason as informing the will, and the will as directing the power. This is that form of God in which he has created man, and condescends to communicate with him.

The writers of Genesis probably pictured the Elohim as manlike in appearance.

The Elohim are the sons of El in the Canaanite pantheon. They were ruled by El Elyon (God Most High), and later by Hadad the rain god, who is generally the god referred to by the title Baal (Lord). In Genesis 14:18-22, Abram is blessed by Melchizedek, the Canaanite High Priest of El Elyon and king of Salem, and Abram accepts the god as his. The enemy of the Elohim is Yam (the sea), a chaos monster slain by Baal. This might have been derived from the Sumerian creation epic Enuma Elish, in which the god Marduk battles the great dragon Tiamat (the waters of chaos, and mother of the gods) and divides her body to create the heaven and the earth. In Genesis 1, God's Spirit moves upon the face of the waters (verse 2) and then divides them (verses 6-7). Marduk hangs up his bow after his victory over Tiamat, much as God does in Genesis 9:13 after the Flood.

A book on Theology I’ve got sometimes takes a more recent concept or construct and reads it back into earlier scriptures. So they might then interpret earlier scriptures as referring to newer doctrines that the author never intended. So in Genesis 1, when it refers to God saying "Let us ...", they then re-interpret that as the Trinity talking to itself; the author had probably envisaged the Canaanite pantheon.

Paul in the New Testament explicitly says that men were made in God's image and women weren't: "For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man." (1 Corinthians 11:7-9).

The books of the Bible are the product of a patriarchal society, in which men were considered godlike and women were blamed for bringing death, woes and toil into the world (Adam and Eve).

But there are alternatives:

Exodus 19:9 makes him appear to be a thunder god - And the LORD said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.

In Exodus he also looks like fire, for example Chapter 19 Verse 18.

Exodus 34:5, still a storm god - And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.

1 Kings 19:11-12 suggests that God isn't in wind, earthquake or fire, but in a still, small voice - And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And, behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake: And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.

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