(November 21, 2015 at 9:31 pm)IATIA Wrote:(November 21, 2015 at 9:07 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: O Lord God of hosts, restore us; Cause your face to shine upon us and we will be saved
Does that not kill them? Or is that another contradiction that atheists have failed to "interpret" correctly?
I don't know. I will see what Christians say about it. Perhaps, God's face is a connection of various levels and there are unseen levels of it beyond any human at the moment, but righteous humans will eventually get there depending when on their speed in the journey. This is because God himself is unseen and never can be seen, as such the various levels of "seeing his face", is such that there is always room in the unseen which is left in only God's knowledge. This is because God has no limit, is absolute, is the Greatest, such that he cannot be greater, and thus the connection to Him is of various levels.
In one sense, his face gives light to all things. In another sense, it's particular to believers who are truly illuminated by it and graced by it and guided by it. In another sense, there exists infinite levels of God's face, and no one can see it at all it's possible levels, because the journey is never ending towards God.
That said, there also room that "death" refers to annihilating our identity into the light of God. That no one can see God's face truly but that he must annihilate himself and kill himself in that sense. That is when you realize you are not your own, but you belong to God, such that he becomes the hearing by which you hear, the seeing by which you see, and tongue by which you speak.
