(Ron) A Direct Challenge to the CCBE
bridean bdean@osu-btc.com
Fri, 25 Sep 1998 10:10:31 -0700 (00906761431, 360BCE87.2C3928F9@osu-btc.com)
> >> >TIM TAYLOR wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Here is a contradiction for the CCBE. I look forward to their
> response.
> >> >>
> >> >> Moses sees God:
> >> >>
> >> >> Exd 33:23
> >> >>
> >> >> And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts:
> but
> >> >> my face shall not be seen.
> >> >>
> >> >> versus:
> >> >>
> >> >> 1 TIMOTHY 6:16
> >> >>
> >> >> Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can
> >> >> approach unto; WHOM NO MAN HATH SEEN, nor can see: to whom [be]
> honour
> >> >> and power everlasting. Amen.
> >> >>
> >> >> 1 John 4:12
> >> >>
> >> >> NO ONE HAS EVER SEEN GOD; but if we love one another, God lives in
> us
> >> >> and his love is made complete in us.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >BRIDEAN
> >> >You could give the ad hoc explanation that 1 Tim 6:16 and 1 John
> 4:12 refer to
> >> >seeing God "face to face" which Moses did not see in Exd 33:23.
> >> >
> >>
> >> TILL
> >> But Exodus 33:11 does say that Moses talked to God "face to face."
> Maybe
> >> Moses had his eyes closed. Furthermore, Exodus 24:9-11 says that
> "the God
> >> of Israel" was seen by 74 people.
> >>
> >> >9 Then Moses and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders
> of
> >> Israel went up,
> >> >10 and they saw the God of Israel. Under his feet there was
> something like
> >> a pavement of sapphire stone, like the very heaven for clearness.
> >> >11 God did not lay his hand on the chief men of the people of
> Israel; also
> >> they beheld God, and they ate and drank.
> >> >
> >> Farrell Till
> >> Skepticism, Inc.
> >> jftill@midwest.net
> >
> >
> >
> >
> RON
> I would refer you to Gregory Palamas' theory on the enrgies of God
> which you can find in his book "the Triads". His is a very convincing
> explanation.
>
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