God being spirit means that God is not material, not bodily, not made up of parts you can pull apart and put back together. Thomas Watson, in his sermon commenting on this question in A Body of Practical Divinity states:īy a spirit I mean, God is an immaterial substance, of a pure, subtile, unmixed essence, not compounded of body and soul, without all extension of parts. So what does it mean for God to be spiritual? In any case, we discussed the differences between angels and humans (at least according to Aquinas) and one of the main ones was that angels are pure spirits, intelligences with no bodies. I know I hadn’t much until I was forced to think through some of the metaphysics of spiritual beings in my class on medieval philosophy in college (Angels, Humans, and Evil, I think it was called). ![]() I don’t think most of us give thought to the fact that God is a Spirit (John 4:24). Israel never saw God’s form at Sinai, only smoke, fire, and lightning.Ī: God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
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