Soapy
Son of his Father: The Heir and Prince
Making a body is nothing to a mighty angel. Even human Beings ‘make man’ from each other in male and female sexual union.Part quoting scripture and trying to explain it away does not really help you here Soapy. Like the plural application to God in Genesis and creation and the fall of mankind.
- Genesis 1:26 26 And God said, LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR IMAGE, AFTER OUR LIKENESS: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
The body is but a lifeless vessel much akin to any animal - it is the SPIRIT in the body that makes it ‘Image of God’.
The rebellious angels ‘made bodies [in human form] for themselves’ and put themselves into them to animate those bodies. It is the SPIRIT that matters - the body counts for nothing!!!
GOD used His spirit to animate the lifeless body of Adam: ‘And the man became a LIVING SOUL’.
God was speaking to the high angel who became known as ‘Satan’ (properly, ‘The Satan’ / The opposer). ‘The Satan’ (just ‘Satan’ for short) created the body that God commanded but it was lifeless.
GOD made it a living body.
The man was given a gift greater than the animals and in knowing his creator (God) and therefore was to glorify his creator God in return. But Satan was not to be worshipped though he made the body. No angel must ever be worshipped. Thus Satan caused a revolt among the angels of heaven suggesting that if he were to be leader in heaven then angels would also be worshipped by mankind. Thus God put a stop to the direct rebellion - the rebellion is now in mind and spirit towards mankind - temptation and discord against the word of God.
You are testing me? You imagine i am ignorant of scriptures?You do err not knowing the scriptures.
- Genesis 3:22 “Then the Lord God said, BEHOLD, THE MAN HAS BECOME LIKE ONE OF US, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL; and now, he might stretch out his hand, and also take from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever.”
The angels are wise (perhaps, some too wise!!?) and they are highly intelligent - and hugely powerful. In fact, at this time even, man was made ‘a little lower than the angels!’ But he is to grow - like a weak child but yet a prince - into greatness above the angels in time to come.
You appear to think of angels as pictured in paintings and by statues and figureens as weeping flimsy feminine figures… NO, 3rdAngel, angels are majestic yet powerfully gruesome spirits, appearing in human firm only so as to diminish the fear that would come upon humanity if they were to show themselves in their power form. BUT YET WE ARE COMMANDED BY GOD NOT TO MAKE ANY SUCH DESIGN OF THEM…. But guess what? There are no greater modellers of angelic beings than in Catholicism and its spin off - Protestantism.
It is clear that God is speaking to the angels since He speaks of man becoming ‘like us knowing good and bad’. Your three person God has one spirit and therefore God would not be speaking to HIMSELF. God is speaking to ANOTHER ENTITY that has intelligence and knowledge. Are you suggesting that angels do not know good and bad?
But that again underlines that God is not a multi-person. God takes COUNSEL WITH THE ANGELS… why would God take counsel with Himself if he was a SINGLE MINDED ENTITY? The mind would be ONE MIND. What one thinks is NOT SEPARATELY the same but SINGULARLY THE SAME. There could never be ‘Counsel’ among ONE for such would assume another has thoughts DIFFERENT from another.