Bill, you've been working on divine incorporeality lately.

Some of our viewers and listeners may be unaware of divine incorporeality.

Shannon Bird is a friend and follower of reasonable faith, and he has a really good theology

and apologetics blog, and he writes

in this article, traditional Christianity affirms that God is an immaterial, non-physical reality,

that is to say that God is formless or without body. Christianity has historically opposed

material conceptions of God, and instead posited that God,

the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are lacking any material structure or composition. That is,

apart from the incarnation of Christ, which we'll get into a little bit later. What do you think of that

summation, Bill? Well, I think that Shannon is quite right in saying that divine incorporeality

means that God is an immaterial, non-physical reality. We should not say that it means that God doesn't have a body, because as he indicates

in his very last phrase, in the incarnation, the second person of the Trinity does assume a human

nature so that in Christ, God does have a body.

But God himself, apart from the incarnation, is an immaterial, non-physical reality, and that's what we mean by divine incorporeality.

There seems to be plenty of scriptural data supporting God's incorporeality. This article from Shannon

continues. For example, in John 424, Jesus says, God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship

in spirit and truth. First Timothy 616, Paul says God dwells in unapproachable light and no man has seen or can see him.

Paul also mentions that God is invisible, Colossians 115.

Similarly, John says no one has seen God at any time.

John 118.

So Bill, the Bible certainly indicates that God is immaterial, it seems. I think that's right. This is just some of the biblical evidence for

God's incorporeality. In my systematic philosophical theology, I list about five such lines of evidence, including these.

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