Originally posted by seven7up
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This was a distortion from the Pharoah, who claimed that ONLY the Pharoah had the image of the divine, and all the other people did not. This was a misuse of the language by false religions, because in reality all man kind has the same image.
Depends on the vision. If there is a figurative interpretation given, well, there you go. However, if you take a passage like, Exodus 24: 9-11, it is quite straightforward:
"Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself. Yet He did not stretch out His hand against the nobles of the sons of Israel; and they saw God, "
"Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and they saw the God of Israel; and under His feet there appeared to be a pavement of sapphire, as clear as the sky itself. Yet He did not stretch out His hand against the nobles of the sons of Israel; and they saw God, "
It does not make much sense to claim that they did not actually see God.
Just like the Book of Mormon account from the Brother of Jared, they were likely seeing the pre-Incarnate Christ. This is an anthropomorphic account, just like the experience that Moses had. Essentially what they were seeing was the same that Peter, James and John saw at the Mount of Transfiguration, where they saw the glory of God.
Exodus 40:34-35 ESV
Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle. And Moses was not able to enter the tent of meeting because the cloud settled on it, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.
No one has seen the Father because man kind has been separated from Him due to the Fall and sin. THAT is the reason that no man has seen the Father.
However, as I previously addressed from the Chapter 1 in the Book of Hebrews, Jesus is an exact copy/imprint of God the Father.
Peter had the keys of the kingdom. John likely worked within the church like the other Apostles until he reached the age when he was going to die (and he appears to have outlasted the others). Then he would be "changed" into an immortal and glorified body "in the twinkling of an eye", rather than tasting death. We do not know what John has been doing after that, but we do not suspect that he was performing ordinances for the Church.
All we have are very limited accounts. Consider how much history must have occurred during the length of time represented by the book of Genesis.
Yet we have relatively very, very little information about that time period. The first book in the Old Testament only gives minimal details of what occurred over almost two and a half thousand years. The more detailed history that we have in the Bible only begins when Moses came upon the scene. You know that.
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