Covenant Reformed News – September 2012 • Volume XIV, Issue 5
This article defends the doctrine of God's spirituality (that God is pure spirit, not material) as essential to understanding the Trinity and refuting materialistic, pantheistic, and panentheistic worldviews. The author explains how biblical anthropomorphisms (descriptions of God with human or animal features) are consistent with God's purely spiritual nature, using scriptural evidence to clarify this foundational theological truth.
The Spirituality of God (2) God’s spirituality (John 4:24) not only very obviously accords with especially some of His other attributes (unity, invisibility, omnipresence and omnipotence); it is also necessary for the truth of the Holy Trinity. If God were not pure spirit, if God were even in part material or physical, then the three Persons would cause a division in the Godhead, the heresy of tritheism (three gods)! The one true God exists in three Persons only because His Being is one (God’s...