Will we meet and see God the Father?

[kwikphilly]

Greetings DRS!

     Good morning ,my Brother....well,I suppose by now your question is answered(lol)....isn't is great,all we have to look forward to?!!!!Praise the Lord!

     I read someones post(can't find it),where I think they thought(or supposed)or whatever-that we will not be able to see God's face....Clearly,it is written that we will!Openly Curious gave the references......1 Cor 13:12 ........but then FACE TO FACE" and also Rev 22:1-4......they SHALL SEE HIS FACE and His Name wil be written on their foreheads"

    I just wanted to make sure they have His Blessed Assurance ,as it is written by Gods Word!I can listen to Gods beautiful Promises over & over & over again!

    God bless you,DRS....this was a great topic,thank you & let us give Glory to our King of Kings!

                                                                                                                                                           With love,in Christ-Kwik

[*Zion*]

Do you think Adam saw God's face when He walked with him in Eden?

[other one]

Do you think Adam saw God's face when He walked with him in Eden?

that was Jesus that walked with Adam when he was in the form of God before he became flesh.

[kwikphilly]

Blessings Zion!

     Good Morning & praise Jesus!Habakkuk 1:13 says"Because God is Holy,He cannot look upon sin"....This makes me wonder if perhaps they they did see Gods face before they sinned...there is nothing that says they did or"did not" see Gods face when they were without any sin and in Gen 2:15 & 3:8-9 where it is written that they walked & talked with God I could imagine they just very well may have,,,,,,,,,,there is not any implication either way,I think I may lean more towards "yes"...when we walk & talk together we do see one anothers face?

    Something else is very interesting & there is probably much contraversy concerning what I am suggesting but(hopefully not to cause a debate,just pondering)we know by many verses in the Scriptures that no one could see Gods face or they would surely die....so(lol)Because Adam & Eve werre without sin,they were not condemned to death....when they sinned they died spiritually and were then sentenced to ultimately die physically......................Having suggested this,there is no reason why they could not see Gods face if they were like Him and alive in an eternal state(Holy,in Gods likeness

     Okay ,that was just a little food for thought..............then again,I am always much better off to not "think" but ask of the Holy Spirit

                                                                                                               With love,in Christ-Kwik

[1x1is1]

From Acts 7:54-56:

 

When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.  But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God.  And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

 

If Stephen saw Jesus standing on the right hand of the Father, I have every expectation that we will. 

 

There are many excellent scripture quotes in here.  I think that Butero's example is the deal sealer.  Of course no man see God and live, and that is especially true of Stephen. 

[Willa]

EZ 1:26-28 And above the firmament over their heads, in appearance like a sapphire stone; on the likeness of the throne was a likeness of an appearance of a man high above it. Also, from the appearance of His waist and upward I saw as it were the appearance of amber with the appearance of fire all around and within it; and from the appearance of his waist and downward I saw, as it were, the appearancee of fire with brightness all around. Like the appearance of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day, so was the appearanc of the brightness all around it. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord.

[*Zion*]

Blessings Zion!

     Good Morning & praise Jesus!Habakkuk 1:13 says"Because God is Holy,He cannot look upon sin"....This makes me wonder if perhaps they they did see Gods face before they sinned...there is nothing that says they did or"did not" see Gods face when they were without any sin and in Gen 2:15 & 3:8-9 where it is written that they walked & talked with God I could imagine they just very well may have,,,,,,,,,,there is not any implication either way,I think I may lean more towards "yes"...when we walk & talk together we do see one anothers face?

    Something else is very interesting & there is probably much contraversy concerning what I am suggesting but(hopefully not to cause a debate,just pondering)we know by many verses in the Scriptures that no one could see Gods face or they would surely die....so(lol)Because Adam & Eve werre without sin,they were not condemned to death....when they sinned they died spiritually and were then sentenced to ultimately die physically......................Having suggested this,there is no reason why they could not see Gods face if they were like Him and alive in an eternal state(Holy,in Gods likeness

     Okay ,that was just a little food for thought..............then again,I am always much better off to not "think" but ask of the Holy Spirit

                                                                                                               With love,in Christ-Kwik

 

I like that, thanks Kwik!

[JohnD]

The Late Great Dr. Walter Martin pointed out something about Christ's use of the word "greater" (i.e the Father is greater than I). Jesus used a word that establishes distinction between roles rather than attributes of being. In other words the President of the US is greater than the rest of us but he is not better than the rest of us. His office is superior to ours yet we are his equal in human life or being. Jesus did not say the Father is God and I'm not. He did not say the Father is better than I. And notice also the passages where Jesus is equal with the Father (John 5 and Philippians 2 to name two).

 

How about the Holy Spirit?

 

Has anyone seen the Holy Spirit?

 

The Holy Spirit ascended like a dove, but is a dove what the Holy Spirit looks like?

[JohnD]

John 14:7-11 (NIV)
7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him.”
8 Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us.”
9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
10 Don’t you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.
11 Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.

 

John 12:44-45 (NIV)
44 Then Jesus cried out, “When a man believes in me, he does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me.
45 When he looks at me, he sees the one who sent me.

 

And as to seeing the Father... what would the Father look like? What would the Holy Spirit look like? For that matter what does the Spirit of Jesus (God the Word) look like?

 

How about our spirits? What do they look like?

 

My point is that sight is a tool of this realm. It is not a necessary function of the spirit realm.