16. It is sometimes objected, that
“God is a spirit.” (John iv, 24.) So are Angels “spirits sent forth to minister
to them who shall be heirs of salvation.” (Heb. I, 14:) and yet when Abraham
and Lot saw them they mistook them for men, (Gen. xviii, 2, 5, 16-20. xix, 1,
15,) and John the Revelator mistook one for God, and was about to worship him,
but he said, “See thou do it not: for I am thy fellow servant, and of thy
brethren the Prophets.” (Rev. xxii, 8, 9.) (James J. Strang, The Book of the
Law of the Lord, Being a Translation from the Egyptian of the Law Given to
Moses in Sinai, with Numerous and Valuable Notes [Burlington, Wis.: Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1991], 56)
Further Reading
Lynn Wilder vs. Latter-day Saint (and Biblical) Theology on Divine Embodiment