God Has No Material Body - Prabhupada 0958

680328 - Lecture SB 01.03.01-3 - San Francisco

Just like in the Bible it is said: "God said, 'Let there be creation.' " That means before the creation, before this material creation, God was there. And the material . . . there was nothing material. Therefore, God's body cannot be material, because He existed before the creation of matter. So before creation of matter, there was nothing like matter, though God was there. Therefore conclusion is that God has no material body. He spoke, "Let there be creation." "He spoke" means He's a person, otherwise how He can speak? But His personality is not material, because when He spoke, there was no material creation.