The ANSWER is revealed IN Scripture.
IN BRIEF;
God IS Spirit.
God IS Invisible to ManKINDS Natural EYES.
* God gave men Visions to See.
* God gave men a Voice to Hear.
* God gave those SAME men, the TASK to Teach other men.
...Bummer. Frustration. Teaching other men what “they” can NOT:
...See or Hear.
* God SENT His created celestial holy angles, who ARE spirits, TO EARTH: IN the LIKENESS; ie IN BODIES: that LOOKED LIKE AN Earthly mans BODY.
* AWESOME...Earthly men, COULD SEE and HEAR, angelic spirits!
* THE SAME MEN, WHO BELIEVED, without SEEING God, without HEARING Gods VOICE...IMMEDIATELY, recognized, understood, THAT:
* Angelic “spirits”, Sent to them, WERE ANGELS, IN bodily LIKENESSES, of men........EVEN CALLED THEM MEN......BECAUSE ANY HUMAN MAN, as well COULD SEE and HEAR, angelic spirits, APPEARING, LOOKING LIKE human men, whether or not “THEY” knew they were “angelic spirits”.
* David had an encounter with an angelic spirit.
* Abraham had angelic spirits, “men” visit him.
* Angelic spirits, “men” were present in Sodom.
* IT WAS A PRELUDE...A FORESHADOWING...OF HOW God WOULD FULFILL HIS PROMISE...OF REVEALING HIMSELF ON EARTH FOR MEN TO HEAR and SEE.
* We have the LONG ancient and historical history of Hebrews, of Tribes of Israel, of Levites, of Benjaminits and Jews, struggles TRYING to TEACH men...TO TRUST, TO BELIEVE, TO REMAIN STEADY...IN The Heavenly GOD ALMIGHTY: IN THAT WHICH THEY CAN NOT SEE OR HEAR!
* YES, throughout decades, centuries, other men made fun of them, persecuted them, enslaved them, killed them, made demands to SEE “their” unseen God.
* YES, MANY could NOT bare the oppression, and relented to “other mens” gods of imaginations, moons, stone and statues.
* YES, WHEN Gods SENT, His WORD to Earth...
THREE things Occurred...(AND REMEMBERING, God “HAD” PURPOSED “IN MEN”, to teach and preach Gods Word)...
1) God PURPOSED IN HIMSELF, to teach and preach His Word to ISRAEL.
2) God FULFILLED HIS PROMISE to walk among His Faithful ISRAEL.
3) God who IS Spirit, Prepared a BODY, in the Likeness AS A MAN, for HIS WORD to BE seen of earthly men, to BE heard by earthly men.
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Eph 1:9 purposed in himself..
Ex 29:45 walk among Israel..
Phil 2:8 likeness, fashion As a man..
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1 John 5:
[10] He that believeth on the Son of God hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God hath made him a liar; because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son.
AS FAR AS what councils of MEN DECLARE...
Gods WORD SUPERSEDES!
Listen, Hear, Trust, Believe, Accept, Commit, Declare;
God’s Word Above all other words.
1 John 5:
[9] If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.
Glory to God,
Taken