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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (1429)	10/4/2000 8:34:07 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 28931

I want to know the logic behind God's face being more powerful, than say, God's elbow or knee.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (1429)	10/4/2000 9:19:01 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Now wait - God isn't powerful enough to make an exception to this policy? On first blush, one might think that this is a strange idea--that God would not need to place these kinds of limitations upon His children. God can do everything. Why would He tell Moses (Moses, who he loved very much) that He could not see His face and live? What God is trying to say here is something that He makes quick to clarify throughout the Old and the New Testaments: God's love endureth forever, yea from before the foundations of the world. We are not to know the full plan of God, which is an infinite plan, for the eternal happiness of ALL of His children--IF they come to Him with faith as a little child. Moses's request to see God was an understandable one (who of us would Not wish to look upon our divine Father). But God had planned already to appear as His son, Jesus Christ, in a Glorious body of flesh--flesh that would be scourged by a crown of thorns, pierced by nails, and penetrated by the sword. This was to be done for you, so that you might have life eternal, in one of God's incorruptible mansions. This was the face, and the only face, that God would have Moses to see: Not a face, that was Divinity only, but the FACE of CHRIST, which wept tears for mankind, and was the face of Holiness made flesh. God places Moses in a fissure of rock. This is to symbolize to Moses that he is of the earth, and not of the fulfilled spirit. Moses will see God's face when the appointed time should arrive that Moses should enter heaven. In short, God is saying to Moses, this: "You may not look upon ME and live, for I am sending my Son, the Christ, to you. Only through Christ may you live for eternity, for no man cometh unto me, but through my Son. God will allow Moses to see his back because this is a symbol of the Law of the Old Testament, a law that is moving away from man--to be replaced by the New Testament, the front of God...the Glorious Face of Jesus Christ, the Living Water of Our Lord. I hope this helps you to understand. The bible is very mysterious and full of Love. Fortunately, I am a scholar, and I talk to God on my porch, as well--so I can interpret it for you. Go in peace, Brother. And do not try to look upon the Glory of God...but seek the face of Christ. Amen.