(October 12, 2012 at 9:40 pm)Darkstar Wrote: Yeah, and god doesn't make sense. God isn't simply unseen, he is unseeable. No on can ever see god...
Exodus 33:20- But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”
John 1:18- No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known.
...except when they can:
Exodus 24:9-11 - "Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up 10 and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of lapis lazuli, as bright blue as the sky. 11 But God did not raise his hand against these leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank."
You've actually just stumbled upon a Christian apologetic used towards believers in Judiasm. Jews believe that no one can see God and live, and yet there are instance in the Hebrew Bible where God takes a human form and people do see Him and live.
These are called Christophanies...appearances of the pre-incarnate Christ.
So yes, there is a conflict there for believers in Judaism...no there is no conflict with Christians who believe that the first person of Trinity (God the Father) cannot be seen but that the second person of the Trinity (Jesus Christ) can be seen.
