Where is Jesus physically now?

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John146 said:
Colossians 3:1 If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
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I can´t believe I didn´t think of that! Of course, that´s the answer.
But I think, what she rather wanted to know the location. Because with that answer (which of course is true), you could continue and say: where is God then?
One of the answers to that question would be: the Holy Spirit lives inside of us, we are a temple for God.
 
DorotheaSofia said:
I can´t believe I didn´t think of that! Of course, that´s the answer.
But I think, what she rather wanted to know the location. Because with that answer (which of course is true), you could continue and say: where is God then?
One of the answers to that question would be: the Holy Spirit lives inside of us, we are a temple for God.
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I asked where Jesus physically is. Jesus is a physical being by definition.
 
RoxanaOfPersia said:
He is sitting on God's right hand? How large is God physically?
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The people in the article believe God is 6'2"-6'-3"?

Possibly wears a Ex Large Shirt, Blonde Hair, Surf Shorts With Sandles?

What's Up Dude, Cowabunga :giggle:

TheGuardian

How tall is God?

Andrew Brown
Wed 8 Oct 2008 08.37 EDT

This looks like one of those unanswerable questions, but it turns out that the Mormons – and the leaders of the American "Prosperity Gospel" movement – believe they know the answer: God is about 6' 2" tall. (He doesn't use the metric system).

The justification for this is Isaiah 40:12, where God, it is said
hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?​

Kenneth Copeland, one of the leading preachers of the prosperity gospel, has claimed that God is :
very much like you and me … having a body, complete with eyes, and eyelids, ears, nostrils, a mouth, hands and fingers, and feet.​

Quite how you get from there to a measurement of nine inches has not been revealed to me, but an article by Professor Kirk MacGregor in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, from which I got this story, goes on to quote Copeland as he works out the implications in a sermon:
The Bible says [God] measured out the heavens with a nine-inch span. Well…my span is eight and three-quarter inches long. So God's span is a quarter of an inch longer than mine. So you see…God…stands somewhere around 6'2",6'3", weighs somewhere in the neighbourhood of a couple hundred pounds, little better.​

Professor MacGregor's paper then adds the glorious detail that Mormon scholars have accused him of plagiarising their secret knowledge of God for this calculation:
The clear similarity between Copeland's theology proper and that of Mormonism has led LDS scholars to accuse Copeland of lifting his doctrine of God from their theological repertoire. Stephen E. Robinson, professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University, charges that "the Latter-day Saint doctrine of God is used…by Kenneth Copeland, of Texas," and Mormon exegete Daniel C. Peterson alleges that Copeland's exegetical remarks could have been drawn from the wellsprings of "only the Latter-day Saints, to whom a doctrine … of human beings and of their literal kinship with God has been revealed."​
 
Truth7t7 said:
TheGuardian

How tall is God?

Andrew Brown
Wed 8 Oct 2008 08.37 EDT

This looks like one of those unanswerable questions, but it turns out that the Mormons – and the leaders of the American "Prosperity Gospel" movement – believe they know the answer: God is about 6' 2" tall. (He doesn't use the metric system).
The justification for this is Isaiah 40:12, where God, it is said
hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?​
Kenneth Copeland, one of the leading preachers of the prosperity gospel, has claimed that God is :
very much like you and me … having a body, complete with eyes, and eyelids, ears, nostrils, a mouth, hands and fingers, and feet.​
Quite how you get from there to a measurement of nine inches has not been revealed to me, but an article by Professor Kirk MacGregor in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, from which I got this story, goes on to quote Copeland as he works out the implications in a sermon:
The Bible says [God] measured out the heavens with a nine-inch span. Well…my span is eight and three-quarter inches long. So God's span is a quarter of an inch longer than mine. So you see…God…stands somewhere around 6'2",6'3", weighs somewhere in the neighbourhood of a couple hundred pounds, little better.​
Professor MacGregor's paper then adds the glorious detail that Mormon scholars have accused him of plagiarising their secret knowledge of God for this calculation:
The clear similarity between Copeland's theology proper and that of Mormonism has led LDS scholars to accuse Copeland of lifting his doctrine of God from their theological repertoire. Stephen E. Robinson, professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University, charges that "the Latter-day Saint doctrine of God is used…by Kenneth Copeland, of Texas," and Mormon exegete Daniel C. Peterson alleges that Copeland's exegetical remarks could have been drawn from the wellsprings of "only the Latter-day Saints, to whom a doctrine … of human beings and of their literal kinship with God has been revealed."​
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If God has himself a physical body, then why did he require an incarnation in Jesus Christ?
 
Jesus is the first fruits of the promised resurrected body. In his Ascension the angles declare he shall return in like matter.
Jesus is the God man if you will.
We shall have a body such as his.
The resurrection was physical not spiritual....very important to understand.
Heaven is a real place...not spiritual.
 
pottersclay said:
Jesus is the first fruits of the promised resurrected body. In his Ascension the angles declare he shall return in like matter.
Jesus is the God man if you will.
We shall have a body such as his.
The resurrection was physical not spiritual....very important to understand.
Heaven is a real place...not spiritual.
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Where is Heaven?
 
RoxanaOfPersia said:
Having read the article, it would suggest that God has no right side, let alone a right hand.
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I suggest that it is to be taken metaphorically: It would mean that Jesus is in the presence of God.
However, I am no expert at all and it is just an assumption.
 
Not to offend you but again: Why are you wondering? Why would the physical location of Jesus Christ or heaven be important?
I see that it is an interesting question, but it is not necessary to know that for praying to Jesus right?
 
DorotheaSofia said:
Not to offend you but again: Why are you wondering? Why would the physical location of Jesus Christ or heaven be important?
I see that it is an interesting question, but it is not necessary to know that for praying to Jesus right?
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It is necessary to understand as if he is not physically anywhere, he does not exist and thus there is no point in praying to him.
 
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