The LORD God, seated on celestial throne, which is, and which was, and which is to come.

1)            One indubitable fact I know is that: even if the Divine Entity of the Rainbow Administration, seated majestically in the celestial assizes, decided not to assume any palpability of conception, He will still be the LORD God Almighty, Owner and Ruler of heaven, the earth and other planets. One cannot remain insensitive and create or and be engaged in recreationism. For the veridicality that proves the facticity of His Godhood, the latria must be given to the One of corporeality. God, in the creationism, had no intention to produce entities of robotism as worshippers of His Divinity. His worshipping beings must come to Him in truth and in Spirit, and in the true sense of free moral agency. Only the fickleness of puerility glories in surrounding himself with worshippers who are devoid of minds of their own. Two dimensions of His nature, a prompting of soteriological conception, account for the anthropomorphic and anthropopathic existence of God.

                Looking into the future of creationism, even before its concretization, the ‘Elôhı̂ym had decided that Adam would be the apotheosis – both gregariously and spiritually – of intelligent beings of His workmanship. Genesis 1:26 “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.” The bedrock of Adamic reality is the soteriological quiddity. And for this reason the image comes before the likeness in God’s pronouncement to create Adam. The Hebrew for ‘image’ is tselem (tseh’-lem): ‘to shade; a phantom, that is, (figuratively) illusion, resemblance; hence a representative figure, especially an idol.’ Of these definitions ‘resemblance’ and ‘representative figure’ are to be taken as the meaning, far as the ‘image’ is concerned, contextually. On the other hand, ‘likeness’ is the Hebraic demûth (dem-ooth’): ‘resemblance; concretely model, shape; adverbially like.’ Genesis 1:26 validates the anthropopathism and anthropomorphism of God. While the anthropopathism of God shows that the LORD God is never without empathy, which He poured forth on mankind, the Person of the Second Member of the Godhead, Jesus, is the Actuator of God’s compassion to save Adam. Anthropomorphism of the Creator is evidentiary when one looks at Adam’s head, limbs and torso.

                Attributions to God give representations of human organs to the Most High. Psalm 11:4 “The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD’S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.” Pânı̂ym (paw-neem’) is the Hebrew for ‘face’ and it means: ‘visage (as the part that turns).’ In expressing his burdened heart, the prophet of God said, “Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he” (Habakkuk 1:13)?

The reading of Psalm 8:3, “When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;” reminds me of Eden work of Divinity, which says, “And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul” (Genesis 2:7). The word ‘formed,’ yâtsar (yaw-tsar’), which is: ‘to mould into a form; especially as a potter;’ must, definitely, be perfected with His hands of Divinity. How, tell me, can His proximity to the sculptural piece of Adam in Eden be so pellucid, and the human mind will only see Him as a mere Potter and not apprehend the soteriology?

                Exodus 24:10 “And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.” The seventy elders of Israel were able to make out where the LORD God stood – on His feet. Isaiah 66:1 “Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? And where is the place of my rest?” The word ‘footstool’ throws anthropomorphic light on what the Divinity shares in common with human posture.

“And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters…” Exodus 15:8.

                Exodus 15:8 “And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.” The use of the nose shows the human likeness of God; but it should also be noted that God does not depend on the nose to supply Him with life supporting oxygen. God is the very essence of life. He is too complete to need air through organic lungs. It is, ergo, absurd to think of Jehovah in a respiratory act, as He sits on the throne.

                Scriptural documentation tells us that God has ears. Psalm 17:6 “I have called upon thee, for thou wilt hear me, O God: incline thine ear unto me, and hear my speech.” Here is another corroborating verse of the Bible. “Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me” (Psalm 31:2).

Get related with Jesus

                Getting born again is strictly a conscious effort on the part of an individual. It is of a personal conviction that, as the word of God says, Jesus is truly the only Saviour of the world. A soteriological dependence on the finished work of Jesus is the sole belief requirement of Scripture. Get born again by saying this simple prayer.

“Dear heavenly Father, I come to You now in the name of Jesus Christ. I believe in my heart that Jesus is the Son of God. I believe that Jesus died on the cross for my sin. I believe that You raised Him from the dead. I confess with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and I receive Him now as my Lord and my Saviour. I give God all the glory. Amen!”

(…to be continued…)

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