7263	Forums / Theology Forum / The "imago Dei"	on: July 09, 2007, 06:35:54 PM
If God in His essence had a body then He could be contained, Christ would be spread all over the universe. God would be subject to being in one place while not being in another place. Gods perfect idea of Himself is duplicated in His image. There is God and then there is an idea of God. There is not distinction between His essence and His acting.  Just like our understanding of the truth is our idea about ourselves. We to have our own image of ourselves. But Gods image of Himself is so perfect and so pleasing, and above anything we could image that He desires to have fellowship with His duplicated image being one is essence ,The Father, Son , and Holy Spirit. He derives pleasure from Himself being His own object .  Yet God in His essence has not a body like man. He has no parts. God is a spirit. He is eternally present everywhere with that space being filled by all of Him