Today in Omnibus class we discussed whether angels can have physical/human bodies. Now before you think, "Oh dear, what useless speculation" let me argue in defense of these kinds of questions. To arrive at an answer to a question like this (if you take the question seriously), you have to summon up all your theology that is relevant to the question. What this does is reveal what you think about God, and what you are willing to say about God to argue for your position. So, what I learned from this question from one of my students is that he does believe angels have physical, human bodies, and to get there he argued that God Himself must have a human body, face, back, etc., because God said as much when He revealed His back to Moses in the cleft of the rock. He further claimed that, since we are made in the image of God and have physical bodies, so must God, otherwise it is basically dishonest to say that we are made in the image of God. I tried to explain anthropomorphi...
