I'm more on your side than you think btw

I have very serious gripes with how "christians" live according to scripture in the west

I nearly assaulted a pastor last sunday actually

2 Peter 3:10 seems to be speaking of when the world ends and such, so I won't get into that because of my previous point

we have entire chapters in the bible describing how the world will transition to a next state of existence

so Solomon was bluntly wrong

The reason I bring up Muslims and the Qu'uran is because they hold the Qu'uran as the direct word of their God

we Christians actually compiled our bible for shits and giggles to be an aid in the litturgy

but with modernism the average guy turned it into a Quuran and a self study book

I still advocate that people study scripture, some stuff can even be very enlightening to atheist especially the philosophical stuff, but within the right context

Either way, the point of no man having seen God

***2.“… I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.” — Genesis 32:30

“No man hath seen God at any time…”– John 1:18
3.“… with God all things are possible.” — Matthew 19:26***

This John 18 verse actually reads like this when you write it out:

*No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.*

This is actually where we start to talk about the trinity and such

western*

I'm eastern

another translations reads it *No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is the same as God and is at the Father's side, he has made him known.*

np np

The verse when you write out the entire thing says Christ essentially showed God to people

people see God through Christ, thus

which is cohesive with Christology

Older forms of Christianity (eastern) hold that if you see God, you die

essentially, this is because God is a pure unyielding source of energy which rips apart our entire psyche upon interaction

In that verse in Genesis, God reveals himself to Abraham as a man

much like God walked with Adam and Eve in the garden

this is because it was always Christ

either way, if you go into the Lovecraftian approaches, an infinite all powerful being logically *should* rip apart your sanity and the very matter you exist of if you should approach it

unless such a being retracts itself

(Christ)

-Christ is essentially a retraction of the Father so that the Father interacts with humanity indirectly but presently

I know I know, I just love referencing him when speaking about incomprehensibly alien beings

alien in the sense of strange to our existence

Also on this verse

*“…The LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.” — Judges 1:19*

Isn't it saying that *judah* couldn't drive out the chariot soldiers?

not God?

Because I think the author of the book would be pretty strange if he was trying to make religious propaganda and his own propaganda called his god weak

and lastly *circumcision*

always a fun way to start your friday morning

discussing esoteric biblican circumcision habits 😂