(October 5, 2010 at 5:45 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Gen 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.Jacob, just like everyone else, never saw the face of God. He felt so close that he described it to be like seeing the face of God.
(October 5, 2010 at 5:45 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:The whole of the Adam and Eve story is allegorical. Adam and Eve never existed.Quote:God in Genesis is spirit.Gen 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.
Do spirits normally walk?
(October 5, 2010 at 5:45 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Gen 18:1-5 And the LORD appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre: and he sat in the tent door in the heat of the day; And he lift up his eyes and looked, and, lo, three men stood by him: and when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door, and bowed himself toward the ground, And said, My Lord, if now I have found favour in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant: Let a little water, I pray you, be fetched, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree: And I will fetch a morsel of bread, and comfort ye your hearts; after that ye shall pass on: for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said, So do, as thou hast said.3 heavenly beings in human bodies One Abraham thought was the son of God. This isn't God, but God in messengers.
Apparently spirits eat too.
(October 5, 2010 at 5:45 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Here's some more from the OT:Not in this apparition perhaps.
Ez 1:27 And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
Apparently Yahweh is hot and well hung
(October 5, 2010 at 5:45 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote:Moses never saw God. At the high point of there meeting God tells Moses that he will see where God has been. That's the closest recorded meeting.Quote:God is never seen in the OT.
Just one example:
Ex 33:11 And the LORD spake unto Moses face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend.