Yes even God has Form. This would seem obvious but in a world ruled by concepts, it seems that more than ever the conceptual aspect of God is emphasized at the expense of his objecthood. St. Paul clearly teaches that God has Form:
[Christ Jesus] who, being in the form of God, thought [it] not robbery to be equal to God,
The word English word 'form' is translated from the Greek word 'morphe'. Morphe unequivocally means form. I do not care how many word games one plays you will never get around the fact that 'morphe' means form. Saint Paul was writing to the Philippians who spoke Greek. We can assume Saint Paul and God who inspired him intended to use the word morphe literally in this context.
Notice how existence and form are two closely related concepts. Notice the wording of Philipians:
who, being in the form of God . . . (YLT) who, existing in the form of God (KJV) . . . who was in the form of God (NAB)All objects have form and if they exist they certainly have a location. God meets these requirements. God has form. If he did not have this primal quality named form, He would be disqualified from existence. And God is located in the discrete object known as Heaven. Heaven is detached or set apart from all objects of matter that is the atoms and the fundamental objects that mediate light and gravity to and from all atoms and which all atoms also derive their form from.
Form in this context refers to an intrinsic quality. It does not refer to an extrinsic quality such as appearance, color, etc. Form is a quality that is observer independent. Form is a quality that an object has of itself, independent of other objects or comparative relations. So God has a form independent of anyone in Heaven observing God. And God has a form prior to God creating all the objects in the set called matter.
God is bounded from His immediate surroundings [the definition of form]. He has some type of singular face delineating Him from all other objects. If this were not the case God would be a pantheistic God. When the just are assumed into Heaven they do not spill into God, and God does not spill into them. Rather they are initiated into an immediate relationship with God within a real object called Heaven. They see Him face to face with no go bet-weens. Still God is bound from the environment of Angels and Saints in Heaven. Otherwise how could a face to face relation be possible? The Angels and Saints do not morph into God, and God does not morph into the Angels and Saints or atoms, trees, stars, etc.
Even when the Holy Spirit is sent and resides within a human, he still retains his unique form. He relates intimately to that human form, more so that any two humans can possibly relate but he retains his own form. The Holy Spirit is superposed with the soul and body of a human in sanctifying grace and this is similar to how the fundamental subatomic object behaves. And yet again in spite of this mystical superposition, He, the Spirit still retains his singular form.
God is omnipresent. He can be present wherever He desires. However wherever he is located, he still retains his singular Form. Our imaginations and thoughts are limited when we try to conceive this, yet with God, the impossible is not only possible but normal for Him. And its not our place to necessarily question this.
What is the form of God? I don't know. I've never seen Him. God is not of atoms or the fundamental subatomic objects. God has a supernatural form. He is not of the same stuff of Angels or human souls. But these are in his image and likeness. God's Form is a Trinity so it could be described as One Form yet Three Forms. Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich described God like a sphere within a sphere within a sphere. So there are Three Divine Forms yet One Divine Form. It is sort of like how all the fundamental subatomic objects converge and superpose to form a single atom. They are many, and yet one.
Does God Refer to Concept?
Above we explained God has Form. This clearly written in Sacred Scripture in many places. Now, how do we reconcile this with other more conceptual descriptions of God for example "God is Love . . . " from the first letter of John. In a rational and normal world there are two categories which all words may be nested into. They are object and concept. Object refers to that which has form (e.g. tree, star, atom). Concept refers to a relation between two or more objects (e.g. love, gravity, mercy, light). It is impossible for a word to refer to both object and concept. And yet could God possibly destroy the two categories of language? Could God refer to both Object and Concept??? Yes, because God is supernatural and suprarational and transcendent and all those wondrous words we us when we do not have an explanation.
The reason seems that the Trinitarian relations are inherent to God's Form. The Father, the Son, and the Spirit One Form, and this is linked to what we call Procession or Generation. The Father is eternally generating the Son; the Father and the Son are eternally generating the Spirit in a single moving relation that is God. There is a single Form yet each Person is wholly that Form.
Philosophers and theologians talk about these ideas such as God is pure act or in God "being is doing and doing is being." Is God a noun ... or a verb? He is both. In God, Object is Concept and Concept is Object. In God Form is Relation and Relation is Form. This defies Mother Nature and all rational discourse. And so be it.
What is the form of God? I don't know. I've never seen Him. God is not of atoms or the fundamental subatomic objects. God has a supernatural form. He is not of the same stuff of Angels or human souls. But these are in his image and likeness. God's Form is a Trinity so it could be described as One Form yet Three Forms. Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich described God like a sphere within a sphere within a sphere. So there are Three Divine Forms yet One Divine Form. It is sort of like how all the fundamental subatomic objects converge and superpose to form a single atom. They are many, and yet one.
Does God Refer to Concept?
Above we explained God has Form. This clearly written in Sacred Scripture in many places. Now, how do we reconcile this with other more conceptual descriptions of God for example "God is Love . . . " from the first letter of John. In a rational and normal world there are two categories which all words may be nested into. They are object and concept. Object refers to that which has form (e.g. tree, star, atom). Concept refers to a relation between two or more objects (e.g. love, gravity, mercy, light). It is impossible for a word to refer to both object and concept. And yet could God possibly destroy the two categories of language? Could God refer to both Object and Concept??? Yes, because God is supernatural and suprarational and transcendent and all those wondrous words we us when we do not have an explanation.
The reason seems that the Trinitarian relations are inherent to God's Form. The Father, the Son, and the Spirit One Form, and this is linked to what we call Procession or Generation. The Father is eternally generating the Son; the Father and the Son are eternally generating the Spirit in a single moving relation that is God. There is a single Form yet each Person is wholly that Form.
Philosophers and theologians talk about these ideas such as God is pure act or in God "being is doing and doing is being." Is God a noun ... or a verb? He is both. In God, Object is Concept and Concept is Object. In God Form is Relation and Relation is Form. This defies Mother Nature and all rational discourse. And so be it.
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