In such cases, no answer is enough an answer.
And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell.
You already know my honest answer.
I asked and no one ever gives a definitive answer.God's face could not be seen cause God said so.
You've never asked why not, but only try to use it as a proof of having the face like man's, just because He does have a face.
So far as why not is easy, because God said Moses (and any other man on earth) would die.
God does not give the reason
why Moses would die. And so any reason supplied is only conjecture at this point. (Maybe the shape of the face was so
alien to Moses, it might cause him to leap from the cliff in terror...Hence the hand not just blocking his view, but also kept firm in
the cleft of the rock.)
What does a spirit need a hand for ?
Now you are denying the immortal Spirit's own body. How then can you say man's body is made in His image?
You are making the case, that it's not the body of man created in the immortal God's image, but only man's soul, heart. and spirit.
Why was it needed to cover Moses' face?
So Moses would not die? Even as He said.
So we have a spirit who cannot have his face seen. Cool. But what does a spirit need a face for?
Once again. You appear to be talking from unbelief, questioning why the Spirit of God should have a face and hand. He does. In this case, He has a hand to cover Moses from seeing His face. (In the cleft of a rock, just in case Moses does manage to peek and dives for cover over the cliff...)
Why? If there was not a resemblance to some hind of man...
Circular argument. You draw a conclusion based upon your theory, not the facts at hand.
Your whole argument proves nothing pertaining to man's image being that of God. God's Spirit body having a face, hands, back, finger, etc...could as easily apply to apes. (And really ugly alien features, causing any man to scream in terror and die of a heart attack...)
The four creatures in Ezekiel 1 are plainly said to have
the likeness of man with face, hands, front and back sides, etc...And so, by your argument, God's image is also that of those creatures, that have wings as well.
They are in the likeness of man to a degree. Are you going to say God's can't have wings too? The Bible even speaks of His wings.
Ezek 1 of course says nothing of god's own image and shape seated high up on His throne. Neither did Isaiah see any shape of the Lord high and lifted up.
The only thing the Bible ever says about the shape of the immortal God and Spirit, is that no man has seen it at any time.
You don't believe that. You believe you see the shape of God's face and body every time you look in the mirror.
Trying to sneak in your ideology. No description of the face, hands, nor backside are given.
as a spirit God could simply have vanished.
Nonsensical.
So since the consensus on here is that God did not have a hand. God did not have a back that Moses was able to see according to God.....
I haven't read anyone saying this other than you. It's a typical ploy of the dishonest.
You project false beliefs on others disagreeing with you about the Bible, in order to make them appear not to agree with the Bible facts.
God knew Moses would peek..... so if God did not have what God said He did...
Once again you're projecting beliefs on others never said by them.
I had some hope for your integrity. But now you've simply descended into the usual tactic of lying about the teaching of others, as well as the Bible.
Hey, look. I got absolutely no problem with you thinking you are seeing the spittin' image of God Himself, when looking in the mirror. More power to you.
However, your image and likeness of a debater here shows absolutely nothing of the image of Christ.
For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
You've employed one of the oldest tricks of man's sophistry, by purposely misstating the other position, in order to make it appear factually false. But, like all of man's dishonest wisdom and games, it still doesn't confirm your own argument.
God's image cannot possibly be that of man's bodily likeness, otherwise Jesus is a liar, and men and women have been seeing the Father's shape since in the garden.
P.s. Your ideology for Adam's body being the image of God, is the same as Narcissus, who gazed at his own reflection in the clear water, as being
the very image of the gods.
You see, the real moral of the story here, is that neither the pagans nor you
disagree, that he was indeed looking at the image of the gods and God in the water.