When Christ becomes our sin-bearer, he's plunged into all the torments of hell. The Father, who loves him, turns his face away and all the comforts of the Father's love are beyond the Savior's reach. In the depths of his agony, Jesus cries out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
In the Gospel of Matthew chapter 5, an alternative for "an eye for an eye" is given by Jesus: You have heard that it was said, "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." 39But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Some Important Principles, Doctrines, and Events. Moses saw God face-to-face upon an unknown mountain sometime after he spoke to the Lord in the burning bush but before he went to free the children of Israel from Egypt (see Moses 1:1–2, 17, 25–26, 42; see also Exodus 3:1–10).
He lifts your eyes toward him, so that you are no longer ashamed and looking away. Your eyes are now toward God (Psalm 141:8). When your shame is taken away, you are simultaneously given deep, inner peace. 'The LORD turn his face toward you and give you peace' (Numbers 6:26). Any turmoil you feel is taken away.
The Father, who loves him, turns his face away and all the comforts of the Father's love are beyond the Savior's reach. In the depths of his agony, Jesus cries out, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
He sees you in the Beloved—He sees you in Christ, and He sees the blood that has been shed for you by His dear Son. When God looks at you today, He sees Jesus. Because of this, His thoughts toward you are thoughts of loving-kindness, forgiveness, blessings, and favor.
No one can look directly at the Creator of Genesis 1 and simply call it a nice experience. In other words, no one can see the face of God and simply chayay – continue as if everything was normal. Looking into the face of God can change us in such dramatic ways that our previous life is destroyed.
Thankfully, Jesus was both fully human and fully God for if He had only been fully human, his death would do nothing to help us. Instead, the death of a fully human Jesus would soon be forgotten, and we would still need someone to reconcile us with God.
Three times Blake lists the Seven Eyes of God, once in each of his longer "prophetic books." In Jerusalem 55.31-32 they are listed only by name, while the accounts in The Four Zoas and Milton, nearly identical, provide a characteristic or two for each Eye.
Abstract. In the Bible, St. Paul (Saul of Tarsus) was struck blind by a light from heaven. Three days later his vision was restored by a "laying on of hands." The circumstances surrounding his blindness represent an important episode in the history of religion.
"We can't see God because it's easy for you to see somebody and believe he or she is real. God wants us to be strong and not see but still believe and for us to have faith in him." Yes, the eyes of faith!
No one created God. God got created as the universe grew and changes. God is the cumulative energy of the universe. So, infact universe created God.
Then Elijah said to his servant, “Go and look toward the sea.” The servant went and looked. He said, “I see nothing.” Elijah told him to go and look again. This happened seven times.
Christ as self-portraitist
A similar legend adopted by Western Christianity between the 11th and 14th centuries recounts how, before his death by crucifixion, Christ left an impression of his face on the veil of Saint Veronica, an image known as the volto santo, or “Holy Face.”
Matt. 5 Verses 38 to 48
[39] But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. [40] And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.
As The Catechism of the Catholic Church says: "God is neither man nor woman: he is God".
The canon of Scripture and the quotations from the Fathers mentioned above (Augustine, Gregory) assign one cause to the incarnation: man's redemption from the slavery of sin. Certain theologians 17 say, with great probability, that if man had not sinned, the Son of God would not have become man.
Godhead (or godhood) refers to the essence or substance (ousia) of the Christian God, especially as existing in three persons — God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words." and saw the God of Israel. Under his feet was something like a pavement made of sapphire, clear as the sky itself.
Fortunately, we have the Joseph Smith Translation of the Bible, which clarifies the four scriptures that say that man can't see God. The Prophet's inspired revisions of those verses explain that sinful people can't see God—only those who believe.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) #239 states, in reference to the Father: "God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: He is God." The CCC discusses the traditional imagery and language of God as Father.
He Sees Your Tears
When we feel fear, sadness, or despair, our vocabulary of words just can't seem to communicate as well as weeping does. But, God sees your tears. He hears your cry. He is mindful of what scares you and stresses you and saddens you.
As believers in Christ, we should always take comfort in the fact that God is always watching over us even if we don't see it or feel it. According to Scripture God neither slumbers nor sleeps.
Yet the Bible also speaks of times when God “hides” his face, or “turns” his face away from his people. This is typically an act of discipline or judgment, where God pulls back, experientially, from his people that they would sense their need for his grace and power and seek him afresh (Deut. 31:17; Ps. 27:9).