“When We Pray, Can We Pray to a Material God?”

“When We Pray, Can We Pray to a Material God?”

We are told in the Ten Commandments that we are not to make a graven image or bow down to such an image. We are told in Exodus in effect that the true God is a spirit and is not to be worshipped in the form of a stone or wooden image. The question this essay seeks to address is whether the God of Mount Sinai can be worshipped in a material form or has a material form. Generally, the God of the Jews has been thought to be a spirit and immaterial in nature. Yet we know he created a material world and said it was good; he created a material man and woman in his image with material bodies and with souls of a material essence; and finally he revealed himself in the gospels in the form a human being with a body and soul. We can say that in some sense God has a material connection and thus a spirit can be worshipped with some sort of material form of being. 

I offer this theory and ask you all to give the matter some thought based on what I have said here about the creation of the material world; the creation of man and woman in his image; and that he finally revealed himself in the person of his only begotten son, a full human being, a gift to all humanity.