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Word, people have the habit of personifying their concept of "God":
fiat_money;95423 said:Although the Bible refers to "God" as a spirit, the Bible also attributes anthropomorphic properties to "God" on multiple occasions.
Take Genesis 3:8 for example:This can not be simply written off as a metaphor, because not only did "God's" walking make a sound, Adam and Eve were able to hide from his face. This verse implies that "God" has some form of physical legs to facilitate upright locomotion (demonstrated by the noise of walking created), and "God" has a face with a limited field of vision (hence the attempt to hide from his view). Both of these are physical human characteristics. Not only physically ("...and by the breath of His mouth all their host."), but "God" is also related to humans as far as emotions go ("..for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God"), and as far as as actions go ("...and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.").
What this, along with the quote you posted, illustrates is the Bible's confliction as to whether "God" is some metaphysical spiritual being or a spirit in the form of a human with human characteristics. The conflict makes sense, because different humans often have differing opinions, so one cannot expect multiple humans to create such a large document that is in perfect agreement, unless the document is based on fact.
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