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And do the scriptures contradict themselves when they tell us the prophets such as Abraham our father, Moses the law giver, Ezekiel, or Daniel saw God, yet they also say no man has seen God at anytime until he was fully revealed in the flesh? Heavens no! For we know the scriptures must not always be taken so literally, as they themselves admit as demonstrated above. Yet the scriptures also clarify themselves when they say,
"And he said, 'Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live. And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.'" (Exod 33:20-23)
What is meant here is the substance. For when it says Moses spoke to God face to face it means only insofar as God was revealed to him through the divine energies and not in substance.
If God then was willing to give an icon to Daniel in the Old Testament, and show the angels to Isaiah and Ezekiel also, how much more has he given us an Icon of himself in the unity of the hypostatic union? The very substance that is God dwelling on Earth, born from a virgin, dying on a cross, and conquering death forever.
Why was is that God gave these laws? "And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:" (Exod 32:9) Being prone to idolatry and worship of the heavenly hosts, God gave them these commandments. For this reason he chose them because he himself says, "They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." (Mark 2:17) The Hebrews, and those of Judah especially, were the most spiritually ill of all the sons of men. God would not have picked Abraham if he had not foreseen the wickedness of his many descendants.
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