Philosophically and doctrinally, the body of God would eventually disappear, leaving in its place the incarnate Christ. And yet the religious realities of God’s body would be impossible to erase. God’s breath would be materialized and enshrined for all to see, hear and touch in the ‘in-spirational’ Christian Bible itself, as one of its sacred texts declared: All scripture is God-breathed.59 Like the grin of the Cheshire Cat, it was the breath of God that would remain, as his body gradually vanished.
