. . . it may be argued that Deut.
4:15 is saying only that God did not manifest his form at Horeb, not that no
form could ever be attributed to him. Stephen Geller takes this further,
claiming that, whereas the old Deuteronomic thinkers allowed but one breach of
divine transcendence, at Horeb, Deut. 4:36 wants to reject even this one
concession (Geller, Sacred Enigmas, 42). Whatever our views on
Deuteronomy 4, we should not globalize its message so as to create an unbridgeable
gulf between the God of the Old Testament and the physical world of his making.
(Robert P. Gordon,”’Comparativism’ and the God of
Israel,” in Hebrew Bible and Ancient Versions: Selected Essays of Robert P.
Gordon [Study for Old Testament Study Series; London: Routledge, 2016],
190)
Further Reading
Lynn Wilder vs. Latter-day Saint (and Biblical) Theology on Divine Embodiment
