Hannah,

I'm not sure of what you were trying to say by that quote?? However, whatever you wanted to stress, the fact is that the writer is sorely mistaken about God not having previously having a "body or face". Who was it who walked with Adam in the Garden? Who appeared before Abraham, talked with him and walked aways with him before journeying to Sodom to destroy it? Who wrestled with Jacob and put his thigh out of joint? Was it not the pre-incarnate Christ in all these instances?

Secondly, the fact that the Son of God took upon human flesh is no license to create a picture or image, whether of material matter or in the imagination, for the Scriptures give no detailed account of His physical being. About the only description we have of Him was given poetically in the Song of Solomon and prophetically by Isaiah when he wrote:
Isaiah 53:2 (ASV) "For he grew up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him."
Of course, all this is a moot issue if one takes seriously the prohibition written in the Second Commandment which forbids the making of any representation of the Godhead or of its individual members for any reason. grin
2 Timothy 3:16-17 (ASV) "Every scripture inspired of God [is] also profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for instruction which is in righteousness. That the man of God may be complete, furnished completely unto every good work."
In His Grace,

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