Originally posted by JesusIsAlive
You are not rightly dividing the Word of Truth. God does not have a physical body (first of all because the Bible says so) because He does not need one. God exists in the spirit realm; therefore, it would not be necessary for Him to have a physical body. We have physical bodies because we exist in the material world or realm. We live in a physical environment. But God does not. Physical things are physical and spiritual things are spiritual. Both have substance in their respective environments. God has a spiritual body with spiritual substance or spiritual corporeality. We have a physical body with physical substance or physical corporeality. This is all there is to it. Yes, we are created in God's image and likeness and we are spirits but in order to live in this natural world, we need a physical body. Why do you think Jesus was born into the world? He needed a physical body just like us in order to die for our sins. He could not die for our sins in Heaven because Heaven is populated by spirits.
This kind of principle seemingly teaches us that the mind(spiritual) or the "true entity" and body(physical) or "all phenomana" are two distinct realms or entities. This philosophies is , thus, subdivided by the Materialists doctrine which claims that only the physical or material world, which can be measured or observed, is the true "reality," whereas some spiritual traditions see the physical world as mere illusion--or something which exists in order to be transcended--and the invisible, mental realm as the ultimate truth in which these teaching or faith representing a still-shallow and provisional body of philosophy, expounded that all phenomena (individual life) derived from the mind (cosmic life). In this case, the mind is like the earth, while all phenomena are like the plants growing in it. According to this paradigm, the mind and phenomena are separate entities.
Buddhism views life as dual in nature, as the unity of both the physical and the spiritual. All things, whether material or spiritual, seen or unseen, are manifestations of the same ultimate universal law(truth or reality) or source of life . The physical and spiritual aspects of our lives, although separate classes of phenomena, are completely inseparable and of equal importance. The Buddhist principle "The true entity" of "all phenomena" does not,however, mean that the true entity is contained within all phenomena or vice versa, nor does it assume the existence of some being that exists beyond all universal phenomena and governs them. Western philosophers and other non-Buddhist thinkers and systems of thought have long sought some truth or essence either beyond or behind phenomena. The Christian idea of an absolute God as the creator of the world is a good example of how these other philosophies removed the ultimate truth from all real phenomena. The inevitable result was a split between God and man or between Creator and creature. Churches and priests took over as the "authorized" intermediaries between the two, and they grew so powerful that the people were treated like vassals.
Buddhism is totally different. The Buddhist finds truth in reality itself; he discovers the underlying truth by steadily and carefully observing man and the things around him. "The true entity of all phenomena" is, therefore, a philosophy that sees into the real aspect of every reality in the universe, especially human life. All phenomena and the true entity are "two but not two," for one cannot exist without the other. This is what binds the true entity and all phenomena together, making them one and the same, even though they may seem to be different. All phenomena --- the sun and the moon as they rise and set, the ebb and flow of the seas, the bending of trees before the wind --- in the eye of Buddhism all appear as the action of [mystic] Law or mystic truth.
The Judeo-Christian religions may assert that their supreme beings do not appear in any real form, but the Buddhism of the Lotus Sutra proclaims that there is NO true entity outside of phenomena.