Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Christians have you ever seen God?

"Has anyone ever seen God?" In John 1:18 we are told, “No one has ever seen God.” However, in John 6:46 we learn that there’s an exception. Here it says, “No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God.” In 1st John 4:12 it says again, “No one has ever seen God.” The writer of 1st Timothy 1:17 tells us that God is invisible. In Exodus 33:20 God warns Moses, “. . . no one can see my face and live.” Then God proceeds to contradict himself. According to Genesis 16:13 God appeared to Hagar, and she admits to having seen him. In Genesis 26:24 we learn that God appeared to Isaac yet he did not die. In Genesis 32:30 Jacob gets the best of God in an all night wrestling match after which he brags that he saw God face to face and lived. But to compound the confusion, in Exodus 24:9-11 we learn that Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu and the seventy elders of Israel not only saw God, they had a banquet with him. Confusing, isn't it?

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