OKAY..
Let us assume that God has no body... which means no body parts... and that Moses went up the mountain and
saw something.
Who is saying God has no immortal body? Is your belief about man's body being made in God's image, so fixed in concrete, that God cannot not have an immortal body at all, if not shaped like man's?
There is no argument about God having an immortal body and shape. Jesus confirms the immortal God does have His own shape, which Jesus says
no man has seen. That would include Moses thousands of years before.
What do you think he saw?
Did he see God's shape?
Let's look at the Bible record.
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before thee;
And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.
What He saw was the backside of God's
goodness and glory. Nothing about the shape of it.
The Bible says Moses and God spoke face to face, but we know Moses did not see His face, nor the shape of it.
And if God... at least at that time did not have... or project any kind of a body part...
Once again, the immortal God having body parts is not the issue. It's the shape of them in question.
why did He need to walk past Moses stating
17The LORD said to Moses, “I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight and I have known you by name.”
18Then Moses said, “I pray You, show me Your glory!”
19And He said, “I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion on whom I will show compassion.”
20But He said, “You cannot see My face, for no man can see Me and live!”
21Then the LORD said, “Behold, there is a place by Me, and you shall stand
there on the rock;
22and it will come about, while My glory is passing by, that I will put you in the cleft of the rock
and cover you with My hand until I have passed by.
23“Then I will take My hand away and you shall see My back, but My face shall not be seen.”
WHAT DID GOD MEAN BY THIS THAT HE TOLD MOSES???????????????????????????????????
That he would show His goodness and glory. Nothing is said of His
shape. The words shape or likeness aren't even written, and that is the subject at hand.
Let's look at more of the record.
Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found grace in thy sight, shew me now thy way, that I may know thee, that I may find grace in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.
And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest.
We don't see Moses even asking to see
His shape and likeness in the first place. At this point, it's fair to ask where that idea even came from. That too is a mistaken tradition.
Moses asks God to show Moses
His way. Which is His
way of going, and going with him and the children of Israel through the wilderness.
God's promises is to go with them in
His presence, not His shapen body. Nor does He promise to show Moses any of His shape. And Moses didn't even ask to see any.
And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
And Moses made haste, and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshipped.
God showed Moses His way of goodness and glory
in declaring it with power. And Moses did not see any shape at all, but rather the scene is one of the
the brightness of His glory and goodness, causing Moses to be quickly humbled and hasting to bow down.
The conclusion is simple. In all the research, there is not one hint of God ever showing His immortal shape and likeness bodily to any man, nor has He written of it in Bible revelation and prophecy.
It's up to you to show anywhere the Bible specifically reveals His immortal image and shape is like that of a man. Or to show it in shape and likeness.
Otherwise, all we have is a carnal reading of Gen 1, that leads straight to the Bible's specific definition of idolatry, that pertains to His immortal image being like the physical shape of man, beast, or creeping thing.
AND
what in the world are
Colossians 3:1Therefore if you have been raised up with Christ, keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Hebrews 10:12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God,
Romans 8:34 who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us.
Acts 7:56 and he said, “Behold, I see the heavens opened up and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God.”
Once again. God having a body is not the argument. And the likeness of the resurrected man Christ Jesus, is
now that of a man sitting on the right hand of God.
And that is only because the Word was made flesh
in the likeness of men. Therefore, To say that the Father also has the likeness of a man sitting on the left hand of the Son, is to say the Father has also come in the flesh and likeness of man.
WIKI The Session of Christ or heavenly session is a Christian doctrine stating that Jesus Christ is seated at the right hand of God the Father in Heaven—the word "session" is an archaic noun meaning "sitting".
When and where does the Bible say God
sat down on His throne?
We read of the resurrected man Christ Jesus sitting down on God's right hand. We never read of the Father sitting down on His throne.
In any case, as with Moses, it says nothing of the shape of the Father's immortal backside. We can however agree the Son's is the shape of His resurrected man's body.
So.... What is it that you think Moses saw?
Did he see God's shape?
Moses say the goodness and glory of the God of Israel's immortality, before He was made flesh in the likeness of man.
But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
He did not
change His image into that of a man. He put away His glorious and good likeness as seen by Moses without shape, and instead took on Himself the same natural shape and image of all men.
Man has his own physical shape, shaped by the Lord, and God has His own immortal shape, shaped by no god nor man.
Saying His shape as that of man, is man making his shape to be that of God.
Now I have one question for you, after answering several of yours:
What is it that you think Moses saw? God's shape?