I'm not sure that he actually went that far in the King Follett Discourse. I think his point was that we are literally created in God's image and that we look like Him. When he said that God was once as we are now, I believe he was saying that, like His son, Jesus Christ, He once walked "an earth" as a mortal being, and that, also like His son, He is now an immortal being. Witnesses to Christ's ascention into Heaven said that He was taken up into the sky in bodily form. As Latter-day Saints, we believe that He is in Heaven today, in bodily form and that He sits on His Father's right hand side. (We have a really hard time trying to figure out how He could sit on the right side of a being who has no form.)
You say over and over again that God sits in bodily form in heaven. Again scripture rejects this:
1co 15:50Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can`t inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
If flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God God cannot be sitting in heaven with a body.
Joh 4:24God is a Spirit
Not flesh, not a mortal body.
We were created in God's image- and we have a spirit, simliar to him, as he is a spirit. Is there any chance God is in a mortal body? No, God declares no flesh, no mortal body can enter heaven. This verse is explicit:
Nu 23:19
God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man,
that he should repent: Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it good?
God has never lied, or repented. If he was then once a man (and therefore sinful) and exalted to god-hood this would be a lie.
Again I quote Joh 4:24"God is a Spirit "and "a spirit hath not flesh and bones"Luke 24:39
There is a difference between being a spirit and having a spirit. Jesus says the father is a spirit meaning that he lacks a body intirely.
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Tatian the Syrian
"Our God has no introduction in time. He alone is without beginning, and is himself the beginning of all things.
God is a spirit, not attending upon matter, but the maker of material spirits and of the appearances which are in matter. He is invisible, being himself the Father of both sensible and invisible things" (
Address to the Greeks 4 [A.D. 170]).
Didymus the Blind
"God is simple and of an incomposite and spiritual nature,
having neither ears nor organs of speech. A solitary essence and illimitable, he is composed of no numbers and parts" (
The Holy Spirit 35 [A.D. 362]).
Irenaeus
"Far removed is the Father of all from those things which operate among men, the affections and passions.
He is simple, not composed of parts, without structure, altogether like and equal to himself alone. He is all mind, all spirit, all thought, all intelligence, all reason . . . all light, all fountain of every good, and this is the manner in which the religious and the pious are accustomed to speak of God" (
Against Heresies 2:13:3 [A.D. 189]).
Hilary of Poitiers
"First it must be remembered that God is incorporeal. He does not consist of certain parts and distinct members, making up one body. For we read in the gospel that God is a spirit: invisible, therefore, and an eternal nature, immeasurable and self-sufficient. It is also written that a spirit does not have flesh and bones. For of these the members of a body consist, and of these the substance of God has no need. God, however, who is everywhere and in all things, is all-hearing, all-seeing, all-doing, and all-assisting" (
Commentary on the Psalms 129[130]:3 [A.D. 365]).