Explore “The Bodies of God” by Benjamin D. Sommer. Sommer argues that God has more than one form and those forms can appear simultaneously in different places. He believes the Christian notion of a Trinitarian God is defensible from the Hebrew Bible. Consider Sommer’s “Fluidity of Divine Embodiment and Selfhood: Mesopotamia and Canaan.” The notion of God being embodied and being more than one person existing at the same time and having each of those persons be God is very old. The Enuma Elish is a famous text. Sommer states, “Yet on occasion the boundaries separating gods in these texts are porous." Consider Mesopotamian idolatry. For the Mesopotamian idol maker, the deity would be reborn into or take up residence in the idol. In the ancient world, gods were real because they were just spiritual beings. We read in Exodus 15:11 ,“Who is like you, O Lord, among the gods?” God is the God of all spiritual beings. The ancients distinguished mentally the entity from the object. Aniconism was the Israelite resistance to building a graven image for YHWH. Consider cosmic geography. Is it true that no one ever sees God? In Exodus 33, Moses asks to see God. Consider that what we are forbidden to see is the direct, unfiltered presence - the direct glory- of God. God comes to us in ways that we can process. God veils and filters his presence so we do not die. Panim means “face”. Panim also denotes being in someone's presence.