In John 4:24, Jesus teaches the Samaritan woman that believers are to worship God “in spirit and truth.” This was interpreted by Symeon the New Theologian as his conception of God (read: a simple being) being worshipped by our immaterial component, i.e., our soul:
What then are these true
worshipers? Those who do not limit their service to God to any place, but serve
and worship Him in spirit. When the Lord says that God is Spirit, He shows
nothing else by this than He is incorporeal. Therefore, it behooves us to offer
service to the incorporeal God with our own incorporeal nature, that is, with
the soul, For the incorporeal God can be pleased only by the mind and pure
thought. (Symeon the New Theologian, Discourse 15, in The Complete
Discourses of Saint Symeon the New Theologian [trans. Dean Marais; Based
Books, 2025], 381)
On John 4:24 and related texts, see:
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Wilder vs. Latter-day Saint (and Biblical) Theology on Divine Embodiment
