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Critics attack the LDS doctrine of God the Father and Jesus Christ being corporeal beings—i.e., having physical bodies. They claim that this doctrine is not Biblical. | Critics attack the LDS doctrine of God the Father and Jesus Christ being corporeal beings—i.e., having physical bodies. They claim that this doctrine is not Biblical. | ||
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Even the presumption that ''spirit'' means being immaterial is not scriptural, and is the product of later thinking: "in Scripture...there is no indication that by spirit and soul were meant any such principles as form or immateriality."{{ref|wolfson1}} | Even the presumption that ''spirit'' means being immaterial is not scriptural, and is the product of later thinking: "in Scripture...there is no indication that by spirit and soul were meant any such principles as form or immateriality."{{ref|wolfson1}} | ||
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#{{note|sanders1}} {{book|author=Joseph Newbould Sanders|title=A Commentary on the Gospel according to John, ed. B. A. Mastin|place=New York|publisher=Harper & Row|date=1968|start=148|end=149|ISBN=?}} (emphasis in original) | #{{note|sanders1}} {{book|author=Joseph Newbould Sanders|title=A Commentary on the Gospel according to John, ed. B. A. Mastin|place=New York|publisher=Harper & Row|date=1968|start=148|end=149|ISBN=?}} (emphasis in original) | ||
#{{note|wolfson1}} {{book1|author=Harry A. Wolfson|title=Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam|place=Cambridge|publisher=Harvard University Press|date=1948|start=2:95|ISBN=?}} | #{{note|wolfson1}} {{book1|author=Harry A. Wolfson|title=Philo: Foundations of Religious Philosophy in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam|place=Cambridge|publisher=Harvard University Press|date=1948|start=2:95|ISBN=?}} | ||
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Critics attack the LDS doctrine of God the Father and Jesus Christ being corporeal beings—i.e., having physical bodies. They claim that this doctrine is not Biblical.
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In John 4:24 Jesus says:
It is sometimes claimed that this verse proves that God is non-corporeal: i.e., a spirit, and nothing but a spirit.
However, there is no indefinite article in Greek (the indefinite article in English is "a," as in "a spirit." The New International Version (NIV) translation of the same verse reads:
One non-LDS work noted of this verse:
The absence of God's body is thus only present in this scripture if one approaches it with that preconception. There is nothing which requires such a reading, and much that does not.
Even the presumption that spirit means being immaterial is not scriptural, and is the product of later thinking: "in Scripture...there is no indication that by spirit and soul were meant any such principles as form or immateriality."[2]
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