Friday, August 21, 2009

The form of God

In my book, Bible Shockers!, I speak of the fact that God (as well as his deputies, or "angels") is a man. I point out that man was, in fact, made after that form, "in the image and likeness of God."

I thought of nice succinct way of saying that, that I wish I had said in my book, and that is this:

"God has a form, and that form is the form of a man, of which Adam was a likeness."

I am wondering, also, if the mention of "the form of God" in Philippians is not simply saying that Jesus was a man:

Php 2:6 Who, being in the form of God [], thought it not robbery [booty - a reward for a crime] to be equal with God:

In fact, Phil 2:6 might be better translated:

"Who, [already] being in God' form, didn't consider seeming to be like a god a thing to steal."

In my book, I muse that "form of God" derives from the LXX, where one's MORFE (form) has to do with one's attitude. Here is how the LXX uses the word MORFE:

Da 5:9 Then was king Belshazzar greatly troubled, and his countenance [MORFE="attitude"] was changed in him, and his lords were astonied.

I find Jesus being "in the form of a god" (being human) and "being in the attitude of a god" equally superior to the idea that Jesus was being said to be divine himself when it says that he was in the "MORFH of God."

0 comments: