While rejecting that God the Father has a glorified body, Seventh-day Adventists holds that God has a bodily “form” and “shape.” The following, which I think Latter-day Saints will appreciate, is from a popular SDA theological work:
Created in the Image and Likeness of God.
It is frequently suggested that human moral and spiritual dimensions reveal something about God’s moral and spiritual nature. But since the Bible teaches that man comprises an indivisible unity of body, mind, and soul, man’s physical features must also, in some way, reflect God’s image. But isn’t God a spirit? How could a spirit being be associated with any form or shape?
A brief study of the angels reveals that they, like God, are spiritual beings (Heb. 1:7, 14). Yet they always appear in human form (Gen. 18:1-19:22; Dan. 9:21; Luke 1:11-38; Acts 12:5-10). Could it be that a spiritual being may have a “spiritual body” with a form and features (cf. 1 Cor. 15:44)?
The Bible indicates that some people have seen parts of God’s person. Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and the seventy elders saw His feet (Ex. 24:9-11). Although He refused to show His face, after covering Moses with His hands, God revealed His back to him as He passed by (Ex. 33:20-23). God appeared to Daniel in a judgment-scene vision as the Ancient of Days seated on a throne (Dan. 7:9, 10). Christ is described as “the image of the invisible God” (Col. 1:15) and “the express image of His person” (Heb. 1:3). These passages seem to indicate that God is a personal being and has a personal form. This should come as no surprise, for man was created in the image of God. (Seventh-Day Adventists Believe . . . A Biblical Exposition of 27 Fundamental Doctrines [Washington, D.C.: Ministerial Association General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists, 1988], 85)
