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His power.
In the development of rabbinic Judaism throughout the centuries
from the biblical to the present time, we can see that there are two
camps within rabbinical teachings regarding incarnation which are
defined in a broad sense as God taking physical form. We find two
extremes in Jewish teaching regarding incarnation. On one side we find
Jewish philosophers and theologians, best represented by the Spanish
Jewish philosopher Maimonides (1135-1204), who totally denied the
possibility of God taking any human form. Maimonides said that God
is utterly spirit and idea without substance or form. For him, God is the
unmoved mover, a principle that can never be tied to the physical. The
other extreme held by many Jewish philosophers is that since the Torah
and the Jewish Bible speak of God revealing Himself in human form,
then it must be true that God has hands, feet, a voice, wings, and in the
above mentioned experience of Moses, a back and a face as well.
As we approach the season when Christianity remembers that
God took upon Himself the form of a man, was born as a human, and
lived among men in a complete human body, we must not focus on the
fact that some forms of Judaism deny the possibility of incarnation,
but rather think of the fact that God became man, and as such died for
our sins, and on the third day He was resurrected thus giving us the
assurance of eternal life.