by Don Johnston, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. God the Father is an invisible spirit and does not have a physical body. Yet Scripture refers to God as having physical characteristic that theologians call anthropomorphisms. So though He has no body, the Bible...
by Don Johnston, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. God the Father is an invisible spirit and does not have a physical body. Nonetheless, Scripture refers to God as having eyes, a nose, ears, hands, feet, etc. This is called anthropomorphism — the attribution of...
by Don Johnston, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. God the Father is an invisible spirit, so He does not have literal physical appendages. Scripture, however, speaks of Him in physical terms called ‘Anthropomorphisms’, because, even though He has no body, He still...
by Don Johnston, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Though God is an invisible spirit, Scripture speaks of Him in human terms called anthropomorphisms (Read: What is Anthropomorphism?). Since the Bible attributes these characteristics to God, we are helped in...
by Don Johnston, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Anthropormorphic expressions attribute human forms, acts, affections and characteristics to God and allow us to better understand and appreciate Him. They also help us relate to God as a personal Being. Scripture...
by Don Johnston, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. When we encounter another human being, whether friend or stranger, without even thinking, we subconsciously look at their face giving special attention to the eyes. Why do we do that? Because, as it has often...
by Don Johnston, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. One of the first things we notice about any human being we encounter is his or her face. Though Scripture teaches that God is a spirit and cannot be seen by human eyes, still the face of God is mentioned in many...
by Don Johnston, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Anthropomorphisms are figures of speech which attribute human forms, acts, and affections to God. Obviously, being created in the image of God, we have a mind because God has a mind. But He is the master-mind...
by Don Johnston, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Nave’s Topical Bible defines anthropomorphisms as “figures of speech which attribute human forms, acts, and affections to God”. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia’s definition is “the attribution to God...
by Don Johnston, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
Please help us share God's truths and hope in Christ. Most of us, at some time in our life, have faced an insurmountable problem with no apparent solution in sight. This can lead to fear, confusion, panic, or despair. For many, the COVID-19 disease is a real and...
by Don Johnston, Reasons for Hope* Jesus
God’s Word says in 2 Cor 5:17, “Therefore IF anyone is in Christ, he IS a NEW creation, old things have passed away, behold all things have become NEW.” This means that Christians will undergo a complete transformation…they will be CHANGED! This transformation is a...