http://afcmin.org/ateam/450/imago-dei-in-mormonism Helping plans come together, one post at a time Sun, 03 May 2015 14:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.9 http://afcmin.org/ateam/450/imago-dei-in-mormonism/comment-page-1#comment-2051 Mon, 28 May 2007 21:29:00 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=450#comment-2051 Hi Lynda,
Thanks for stopping by and conversing with us.
The point of this post was merely showing that the doctrine of exaltation is still important in Mormon theology. I

]]> http://afcmin.org/ateam/450/imago-dei-in-mormonism/comment-page-1#comment-2050 Tue, 22 May 2007 22:01:00 +0000 http://afcmin.org/ateam/?p=450#comment-2050 Hey Roger. I'm the lady you talked to at the Mariners Church dialogue between Mormons and Evangelicals. I do appreciate the restraint and civility of your website. Regarding this issue of God having a body–Mormons don't think this limits a being in the way you apparently do. God has a physical body and also a kind of “glory body”, that which radiates out from Him and fills the immensity of space. That is why it can say in Doctrine & Covenants section 88 that Jesus Christ is “He that ascended up on high, as also he descended below all things, in that he comprehended all things, that he might be in all and through all things, the light of truth;
7 Which truth shineth. This is the light of Christ. As also he is in the sun, and the light of the sun, and the power thereof by which it was made. ” (D&C 88:6-7)
We believe He can have a body that is in a certain place and still have a connected influence throughout the universe and be the source of light and power in all things.
As I recall, Jesus appeared to His disciples AFTER His resurrection in a physical body, even eating a meal with them to demonstrate that this was not just the appearance of a body, but a very real one. (Luke 24:43) He was God then wasn't He? He invited them to “handle me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones as ye see me have.” (Luke 24:39) I'm not a ghost, in other words. Yet He was no longer clothed in the humanity of the Jesus that He had allowed Himself to be nailed to a cross. He was ressurrected! He had broken the bonds of death and sin. Why then does it seem so patently contradictory to you to both a) be God, and b) have a physical body? Jesus seemed to be doing exactly that in the Luke passages. Just asking.

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