Does God equally value the spiritual and physical dimensions of reality?
God is spirit (John 4:24); hence, a spirit being created a physical universe. Man was created to reflect God and to rule over the physical universe (Genesis 1:26–28); therefore, man is the only created physical being that relates to God in accordance with God’s nature and can function, to some degree, as God does. Nevertheless, God is spirit and requires that we worship Him in spirit and truth. If the worship of God is the highest form of glorifying God and we can only worship Him in spirit, the spirit must be superior in some way to the physical. Notwithstanding this reality, God still values the physical as evidenced by the fact that He called His creation good numerous times in Genesis 1 and created man to rule His creation.
