The quoting of Paul, proves absolutely nothing. Paul was not excuted
until 64-68 A.D. He never even knew Jesus. Paul claims to have seen
Jesus, in a "vision". So, in my opinion, the New Testament is not
abut believing the words of Jesus, it is about believing the story of
Paul! He also wrote 13 of the 27 books of the New Testament and his
opinions abound.

Here is a very short history lesson, for those that don't know, the
history, of the New Testament...Also, I have included info on Paul,
for those who may be unaware.
When Paul wrote a letter to "the church at Corinth" (or any other
city) his letter was passed around from church to church in that city
to be read aloud. All of these congregations in Corinth were
collectively called "the church of Corinth." The average first
century Christian was fortunate if, in his lifetime, he was to hear
even three such letters when they were read to a congregation. It was
even more rare for anyone to have the privilege of reading three
letters. Of course, copies of these manuscripts would eventually be
stored (along with Old Testament scrolls) in church archives.



Early in the third century (around a.d. 210), Tertullian, an
outstanding Christian writer, popularized the title, the "New
Testament". The acceptance of this new title placed the New Testament
Scripture on a level of inspiration and authority with the Old
Testament for the first time.

Nobody owned a New Testament, much less a whole Bible in the first or
second century because there weren't any. Period! However, an almost
complete collection of all twenty-seven books that now make up the
New Testament were in use for the first time in Rome by about a.d.
180—but this was only one set. The first church council to list these
twenty-seven books was the Council of Carthage in a.d. 397.

The Gospels and the letters of Paul were circulated as working
documents among churches, but only the Old Testament books were
formerly recognized as Scripture in the first century.

The Gospels and the Pauline Epistles did not gain importance equal to
the books of the Old Testament until the third century. Until then,
the church could not accept even the possibility of there being a
second or a New Testament.

This is comparable to us anguishing over the possibility of there
being a third Testament written after the Second Coming of Christ.
We instantly reject the idea as unthinkable, don't we? So did they.



Paul's significance in the history of Christianity can hardly be
underestimated: an indefatigable missionary, the first interpreter of
the Good News of Jesus Christ to the Gentile world, he is also the
author of more New Testament books than any other writer.

BACKGROUND
When we first meet him in the Book of Acts (7:58-8:1) it is as Saul;
and later, Acts 13:9 describes him as "Saul, who is also called
Paul." As a Jew he bore the name of Israel's first king (1 Samuel
9:2, 17); but as a free citizen of the Empire, he also bore a Roman
name. Many Jews of this period in history had two names, one Semitic
and the other Greek or Roman. A child of the tribe of Benjamin
(Romans 11:1; Philippians 3:5; 2 Corinthians 11:22), Paul proudly
identified himself as an "Israelite" and a "Hebrew born of Hebrews,
as to the law a Pharisee" (Philippians 3:5) "extremely zealous for
the traditions of my fathers" who excelled his peers "in Judaism"
(Galatians 1:14). But he was also proud to be "a Jew from Tarsus in
Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city" (Acts 21:39). Tarsus was a
Hellenized city, famous for its university, gymnasium, theatre, art
school and gymnasium. It became the capital of the province of
Cilicia during Pompey's reorganization of Roman Asia Minor in 66 BC.
Later on, Mark Antony – famous as Cleopatra's lover – granted freedom
and Roman citizenship to the people of Tarsus. In an age when most of
the people living within the boundaries of the Pax Romana were
slaves, Paul was born a free citizen of the Empire.

St. Paul was "educated strictly according to the law of our fathers"
at the rabbinical school conducted in Jerusalem by the great rabbi
Gamaliel (Acts 22:3). Gamaliel was a Pharisee and a member of the
Sanhedrin, "a teacher of the law respected by all the people" (Acts
5:34). Although Gamaliel is depicted in the New Testament as lenient
towards Christians (Acts 5:33-39), his disciple Saul was active in
the earliest persecutions of Christianity and attended the stoning of
St. Stephen the deacon and first Christian martyr (Acts 7:58).
Paul "persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering to
prison both men and women" (Acts 22:4).

CONVERSION
Intent on exterminating the new faith, Paul sought to travel to
Damascus to undertake the persecution of Christians there. It was
during his trip from Jerusalem to Damascus in Syria that his life
would take a crucial turn when he says he encountered the risen Jesus
in a searing vision of light that left him temporarily blind. This
experience was revolutionary, engendering a complete transformation
and redirection of his life. As a result of this said "revelation"
(Galatians 1:12), Saul, the bloodthirsty persecutor of Christianity
converted to the faith he once hated, was baptized by Ananias and
received into the Church of Damascus, the very community he had set
out to suppress (Acts 9:10-31). From this moment on, he became
a "slave of Jesus Christ" (Romans 1:1) and in that slavery
discovered "the glorious freedom of the children of God" (Romans
8:21).

Luke recounts this Damascus experience three times in the Book of
Acts: once in the narrative, Acts 9:3-19; and twice, in speeches,
before a crowd in Jerusalem (22:6-16) and before Festus and King
Agrippa (26:12-18).

"Saul, still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of
the Lord,

went to the high priest and asked him for letters to the synagogues of

Damascus, so that if he found any that belonged to the Way,

men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem."



"While I was on my way and approaching Damascus, about noon, I saw

a great light from heaven, brighter than the sun, that suddenly shone

around me and my companions. When we had all fallen to the ground,

I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language,

`Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?'

I answered, asking, `Who are you, Lord?'

The Lord answered, `I am Jesus whom you are persecuting.

But get up and stand on your feet!

I have appeared to you for this purpose:

to appoint you to serve and testify to the things you have seen.

I will rescue you from your people and the Gentiles – to whom I am
sending you,

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light

and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive
forgiveness of their sins

and a place among those who are being made holy by faith in Me."

This vision of the glory of God - what later theologians and saints
will call the uncreated light - is the call by which Paul becomes the
Apostle to the Gentiles, the greatest missionary in the history of
Christianity. It is through his missionary efforts that Christianity,
originally a sect of Judaism, becomes a world religion.

PREACHING, MISSIONARY JOURNEYS AND THE
APOSTOLIC COUNCIL IN JERUSALEM
After his encounter with the risen Lord on the road to Damascus and
baptism at the hands of Ananias, Paul tells us in his letter to the
Galatians that he "went away at once into Arabia," spending time in
the desert wastes before returning to Damascus, where he remained for
three years (1:17-18). By the time of his return to Damascus, the
essentials of his teaching were crystal clear: God's promise to
Abraham has been fulfilled in the resurrection of Jesus. The risen
Jesus is the climax of history for He is both the Messiah, the
Christ, and "the power and wisdom of God" (1 Corinthians 1:24).
Teaching in the synagogues in Damascus that Jesus "is the Son of
God," his preaching proved so controversial that there were plots to
kill him. He escaped Damascus by being lowered over the city walls in
a basket at night (Acts 9:19-25).

Three years after his conversion, Paul journeyed to Jerusalem to meet
with Peter and stayed with him for fifteen days. "But I did not see
any other apostle except James, the Lord's brother" (Galatians 1:18-
19). In Acts 9:26-30 Luke describes the suspicion with which the
leaders of the Church in Jerusalem greeted Paul and that it was
Barnabas who secured Paul's acceptance. From Jerusalem, Paul returned
to Syria and ultimately went to its capital, Antioch, the third city
in the empire after Rome itself and Alexandria in Egypt.

It had been in Antioch of Syria that followers of the Way had first
been called Christians (Acts 11:26) and it was this community that
would commission Paul and Barnabas as missionaries (Acts 13:1-3).

Luke organizes Paul's missionary activity into three segments or
journeys. Paul's missionary journeys cover roughly 46-58AD, the most
active years of his life, as he evangelized Greece and Asia Minor.
Paul's first missionary journey is recounted by Luke in Acts 13:3-
14:28 and lasted for three years, probably from 46 to 49AD.

However, Paul's message created controversy wherever he went.
Initially preaching and teaching in the synagogues of the various
cities they visited, it was in Antioch of Pisidia that the conflict
led Paul and Barnabas to declare that they were now "turning to the
Gentiles" (Acts 13:46). This decision, to preach not only to the Jews
but to all peoples, marks a decisive turning point in the history of
Christianity. From that moment on the message of Jesus, the crucified
yet risen Messiah, was clearly open to everyone and this was
understood by Paul and Barnabas to be the fulfillment of the Old
Testament scriptures (Acts 13:47-48). God had "opened the door of
faith for the Gentiles" (Acts 14:27).

But it was in Antioch of Pisidia that Paul and Barnabas soon found
themselves in conflict with other teachers in the Church, "believers
who belonged to the sect of the Pharisees" (Acts 15:5), men "from
Judea" who were teaching that "unless you are circumcised according
to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved" (Acts 15:1). When this
leads to "no small dissension and debate, Paul, Barnabas and some of
the others were appointed to go up to Jerusalem" to consult "the
apostles and presbyters" about the status of Gentile converts and
whether or not it was necessary for them to conform to the Mosaic
covenant (Acts 15:1-5). This visit leads to the council of Jerusalem
(circa 49-50AD). This council was to be a paradigmatic event in the
life of the Church, the pattern for ecumenical councils yet to be
called in the centuries to come. At this council there was "much
debate" as Paul and Barnabas presented their Gospel before the
assembled community, which included "James, Peter and John" who
were "acknowledged" as "leaders" and "pillars" of the Church
(Galatians 2:1-10). According to Acts 15:6-21, it was Peter's voice
that carried the day in favor of Paul and Barnabas. But it was James,
speaking on behalf of all, who announced the decision of the council:
circumcision is not obligatory for salvation.

After the council of Jerusalem, Paul and Barnabas go their separate
ways: Barnabas taking John Mark and sailing to Cyprus, Paul choosing
Silas and traveling throughout Syria and Cilicia "strengthening the
churches" (Acts 15:36-41).

In the decade to come, Paul was to embark on two more missionary
journeys, the second one from 50 to 53AD and the third and final
missionary journey lasting six years, from 53 to 59 AD. During these
journeys Paul would travel throughout the ancient Mediterranean
world, preaching and teaching, establishing new churches everywhere
he went. His Letters leave a trail of churches founded and/or
nurtured by him: Ephesus, Corinth, Thessaloniki, Philippi. He
preached in Athens and was to die in Rome, the intellectual and
political centers of the Empire.

To view maps of St. Paul's missionary journeys throughout the ancient
Mediterranean world, click below:

St. Paul's First Missionary Journey

St. Paul's Second Missionary Journey

St. Paul's Third Missionary Journey

Paul's letters are the oldest Christian documents that we have. Most
modern scholars believe that Paul's First Letter to the Thessalonians
is the first book of the New Testament to be written, sometime in
52AD. His letters are also the largest collection of writings by any
one person in the New Testament. In modern Bibles, they are placed in
order of their length, with the longest letter, that to the Romans,
being first and then followed by letters to individuals (Timothy,
Titus and Philemon) last. Paul's letters are exactly that: letters,
occasional writings meant to deal with specific issues in the
churches to which he addressed them. They are not systematic
theological treatises in the modern sense. And yet, they have
provided rich and deep theological insights that have never been
surpassed in the Church's history.

To read more about each of the letters of St. Paul click here.

To read excerpts from St. Paul's letters about living the Christian
life, click here.

IMPRISONMENT AND FINAL YEARS
It is during his last visit to Jerusalem "to visit James" (Acts
21:18) that Paul is arrested near the Temple after a small riot and
taken by a Roman tribune before the Sanhedrin, the Jewish council.
Paul defends himself before the Sanhedrin by playing on the
dissension between the Pharisees and Sadducees and their conflict
over the resurrection. After a plot to assassinate Paul is
discovered, Paul's case is transferred to Antonius Felix, the
procurator of Judea, who keeps him in prison for two years, expecting
a bribe. When Felix's successor, Festus, arrives on the scene, Paul
appeals his case to Caesar, requesting a trial in Rome by virtue of
his Roman citizenship. "You have appealed to the emperor; to the
emperor you will go," Festus replied (Acts 25:12). Paul's journey to
Rome was to be an eventful one that included shipwreck. The Book of
Acts closes with Paul under house arrest in Rome still carrying out
his ministry of teaching and preaching – faithful to his Master to
the end.

During his thirty-year ministry as an apostle what had Paul suffered
for the sake of the Gospel? Already in 2 Corinthians, Paul describes
some of what he endured to preach the Good News of Jesus risen from
the dead: "Five times I have received from the Jews the forty lashes
minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a
stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked. For a night and a day I was
adrift at sea. On frequent journeys, I was in danger from rivers,
from bandits, from my own people, from Gentiles, in danger in the
city, in danger in the wilderness, in danger at sea, in danger from
false brethren; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night,
hungry and thirsty, often without food, cold and naked. And, besides
other things, I am under daily pressure because of my anxiety for all
the churches" (11:24-29).

Eusebius, the 4th century bishop of Caesarea who is often called the
first Church historian, records that the apostle Paul was executed in
Rome during the persecution of the emperor and madman, Nero. Nero's
persecution of Christians lasted for four years, from 64 to 68AD. It
was also during this persecution that the apostle Peter was executed.
As a Roman citizen entitled to a quick death, Paul was beheaded. St.
Gregory the Great, the 6th century pope, wrote that Paul's execution
took place on the left bank of the Tiber River on the Via Ostiensis,
the road to the port of Ostia, and is buried near the site of the
basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.

ULTIMATELY, JESUS DID NOT RESCUE PAUL, AS HE SAID JESUS WOULD.


"I will rescue you from your people and the Gentiles – to whom I am
sending you..."





Emperor Lucius Septimius Severus, the most distinguished of the
African emperors of Rome, reigned from 193 to 211, and was born at
Leptis Magna on the North African coast. Marcus Opellius Macrinus,
Emperor of Rome for fourteen months, "was a Moor by birth." St.
Miltiades, a Black priest from Africa, was elected the thirty-seventh
pope in 311 C.E. Under Miltiades the Roman persecution of Christians
ceased. The third African pope, St. Gelasius I, governed as pope
from 492 to 496 C.E.






solomon = wise
abdul = servant of
Rahman = The Benificent or The Doer of Good
so, the wise servant of, The Doer of Good

If you take one step towards Him, He runs 2 you!

@Solomon

Jesus said "Blessed are they that believe in me and have not seem me", he said this to a doubting Thomas.

What you have written above concerining Paul is due to lack of knowledge. Paul was blinded by a light on the Damascus road, the voice from beyond this light made himself known to Paul as Jesus. How different is this scenario to that of Moses who met upon a burning bush and from beyond it a voice speaking to him, to which Moses acknowledged him to be LORD.

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel is the same God of Paul. To say that Paul had not met Jesus and feel that this made him less able to write a letter unto the churches of his time, would also negate the right of Moses to write books unto Israel for he had also not met Jesus in the flesh.

Your understanding of what is going on spiritually within the bible needs to be opened. One does not have to Jesus in the flesh, in fact it his a greater thing to know him in the Spirit. Moses and the prophets all glimpsed Jesus in the Spirit albeit they did not know his name, for the time of the revealing of his name was not yet.

"...Moses who met upon a burning bush and from beyond it a voice speaking to him, to which Moses acknowledged him to be LORD. ..."

Sir, do youbelieve God, the Father,is aspirit only?

If so, howisit possible to "speak" w/out a "voice"?

Sir, do youbelieve God, the Father,is aspirit only?

If so, howisit possible to "speak" w/out a "voice

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Solomon, God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Who says that in the realms of God one needs a voice to speak ? why use your limitations as man and impose them on God. In your dreams don't you speak, is your mouth moving is your voice box in operation in the natural?

Bible say God spoke and it was done, he commanded and it stood fast. If you believe in Moses, then understand these are the words of Moses as guided by the Holy Spirit.

the children of Israel heard the voice and the scriptures say the mountain of Horeb trembled, yet God told them to remember that in the day that he spoke they saw no form to him.

Everything that God says, he says for a reason.

"...God is a Spirit ..."



Subject: the "anthropomorphism' of God, according to the Bible-PT OF A CONVERSATION


SORRY, NO REFERENCES TO A"TRINITY".




3: The LORD is a man of war; the LORD is his name EXODUS 15
6 Thy right hand, O LORD, glorious in power, thy right hand, O LORD, shatters the enemy.
EXODUS 15

11: And he did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of Israel; they beheld God, and ate and drank.

EXODUS 24

8: And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

GENESIS 3

5: And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.
6: And he said, "Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD make myself known to him in a vision, I speak with him in a dream.
7: Not so with my servant Moses; he is entrusted with all my house.
8: With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in dark speech; and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"NUMBERS 12

8: How can I give you up, O E'phraim! How can I hand you over, O Israel! How can I make you like Admah! How can I treat you like Zeboi'im! My heart recoils within me, my compassion grows warm and tender.

HOSEA 11

In my opinion, Ex. 15:3 MAY BE USED AS "PROOF" THAT GOD IS A MAN. (I WOULD NOT USE IT THOUGH; IT CAN BE INTERPRETED EITHER WAY)
Ex. 15:3 This appears, to me, TO BE Non-Anthropomorpic.

Ex11. I concede, that the first portion of this verse may be non-anthropomorphic. But not the second part; How could God be "beheld" if He is only a spirit? Spirits can't be "beheld". Gen. 3:8 ...and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden....How could they hide themselves from God, if He is only a spirit? This does not make sense, to me.

Numbers 12:5-8 ...
5: And the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.
6: And he said, "Hear my words: If there is a prophet among you, I the LORD make myself known to him in a vision, I speak with him in a dream.
7: Not so with my servant Moses; he is entrusted with all my house.
8: With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in dark speech; and he beholds the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?"

NUMBERS 12
These verses are VERY clear, to me. First of all, God, in verse 8, says that HE HAS A " FORM". He says that other prophets are aware of Him, by a "vision" and that He speaks to them, "in a dream". "...7: Not so with my servant Moses; he is entrusted with all my house.
8: With him I speak mouth to mouth, clearly, and not in dark speech; and he beholds the form of the LORD. (am I missing something?)

Hosea 8:11 I belive this is non-anthropomorphic.

Dr. Freeman, you mentioned the following in your previous letter. It is excellent, and should apply, to us all.

Also, it is important to understand the difference between "exegesis" and "eisigesis":
Eisegesis: "I am study the Bible with my own preconceived ideas. I find certain verses to buttress what I "knew" all along." In my opinion, this is a dangerous way to go. Error and deception is around every corner. Many people use the Bible as a sort of good luck charm, only obeying the verses that they want to enjoy and using other verses to justify/rationalize their ungodly behavior.
Exegesis: "I study the Bible, using the above rules of interpretation along with other proven rules of interpretation), without preconceived notions. I let the Bible speak to me inductively. What ever emerges, I submit to it, even if I cannot wrap my finite brain around it."

In my opinon, this is the best way to study the Bible.


If you take one step towards Him, He runs 2 you!




Your most sincere and loyal servant
suleiman = wise abdul = servant of
Rahman = The Benificent or The Doer of Good
so, the wise servant of, The Doer of Good
"Pluto sits out there, but still just a touch of the Sun moves her."


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Subject: The God Of The Bible Is Black by Mr. TrueIslam

The God Of The Bible Is Black

Zecharia Sitchin, a scholar of ancient Near East religions, in his
The 12th Planet observes,
"In all ancient pictorial depiction's of gods and men, this physical
likeness is evident. Although the biblical admonitions against the
worship of pagan images gave rise to the notion that the Hebrew God
had neither image nor likeness, not only the Genesis tale but other
biblical reports attest to the contrary. The God of the ancient
Hebrews could be seen face-to-face, could be wrestled with, could be
heard and spoken to; he had a head and feet, hands and fingers, and a
waist. The biblical God and his emissaries looked like men and acted
like men-because men were created to look and act like the Gods (l)."
Reference is made above to the infamous passage of Gen.1:26 where
Eloheim proclaims, "na'aseh'adam beselmenu kidemutenu"-Let us make
man in our Image after our Likeness." Here Adam is said to be made
in the image and after the likeness of God. The current orthodox
exegesis* of this passage renders the image and likeness here
referred to as a "spiritual" likeness, therefore eliminating any
possibility that God "looks" like man. However, those who understand
Hebrew know that this is a most inappropriate interpretation of that
passage. The Hebrew words Selem (image) and demute (likeness),
according to Finis Jennings Dake in his Annotated Reference Bible
(1963) denotes the "outward form, not (the) attributes (2), " In
Israelite Religion, Helmer Renggren says;
"…the meaning of the words; `selem" and `demute,' hardly allows this
statement to refer to anything but CORPOREAL SIMILARITY (3),"
Maryanne C. Horowitz, in her article "The Image of God in Man – Is
Woman Included?" affirms also that the "image," Selem, is a Hebrew
term which "contained anthropomorphic corporeal imagery (4)." These
same Hebrew words are used through out the Old Testament and always
have this meaning of corporeality (5). This to apply any meaning
here other than Adam's physical, corporeal similarity to God is to
violate the principle of contextual exegesis.
The Prophets, when they saw God, indeed saw a Man. Ezekiel,
describing his vision of God, says,
"And above the firmament that was over their heads was a throne, as
the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the
throne was the likeness as the appearance of a MAN above it. (v2) And
I saw the color of amber, as the appearance of fire round about
within him, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from
the appearance of his loins even downward (Ez. 1:26-7."
In Ez. 10:20, this "Man" sitting on this throne is identified as the
God of Israel. The color of this Man/God that Ezekiel saw is also
interesting. He was the "color of amber" as though fire was within
it. Rev. Ishakamusa Barashango notes,
"The Revised Standard Version of the Bible renders the work amber
as `gleaming bronze.' The word `amber comes from a Hebrew
word `Chasmal' which is a golden-brown substance that was used by the
ancients to produce static electrical charges. (6)".
This Man was a Black Man. The Prophet Daniel also beheld God. He
saw Him as "the ancient of Days… whose garment was white as snow, and
the HAIR ON HIS HEAD LIKE THE PURE WOOL. (Dan.7:9."
The Hebrew word for man is "ish". This is used in reference to God
several times. The author of Exodus states emphatically "YHWH `ish
milhamah. YHWH semo," meaning "The Lord is a MAN of war. The Lord
is his name. (15:3). "also in SA. 42:13 it reads,
The Lord (YHWH) goes forth like a mighty man (gibbor), like a man of
war (`ish milhamah) he stirs up his fury."
In Gen. 18, we read,
"And the Lord appeared unto him (Abraham) in the plains of Mamre: and
he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; (v2), And he lift up
his eyes and looked, and, lo, THREE MEN stood by him: and when he say
them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself
toward the ground, and said, My Lord, if now I have found favor in
thy sight, pass not away… (v4) Let a little water, I pray you, be
fetched, and wash YOUR FEET AND REST YOURSELVES UNDER THE TREE".
Of these three men that appeared unto (Abraham), one of them was
Yahweh. The prophet Joshua (5:13) also sees a man (`ish) over
against him with his sword drawn." The prophet Joshua drops down on
his face and "did worship (v14) "this man, who was God. (7) George
Fohrer, in History of Israelite Religion, says,
"The statements that no man can see him (Ex.33:20) and that is
spirit, not flesh (Isa.31:3) of course do not mean that he is
formless or invisible, but rather that man cannot endure the sight of
him (cf Judge. 13:22) and that, in contrast to transitory `flesh', he
possesses an eternal vitality…All the evidence suggest that FROM THE
OUTSET Yahweh was conceived in HUMAN FORM (8)"
In The Growth of The Idea of God, Shailer Mathews states,
"Even among the prophets Jahweh was described with such vivid
anthropomorphism as to enable persons to form a mental picture of
this appearance. Not only was he portrayed as AN OLD MAN WITH WHITE
HAIR, but he had passions and policies like those of the rulers of
his time.The conception of God as spirit DID NOT APPEAR IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT. To the theologizing historians who in the eighty century
(B.C.) unified and expanded the literary date of their religion, GOD
WAS NOT A SPIRIT BUT POSSESSED A SPIRIT." (9)

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If you take one step towards Him, He runs 2 you!