>>And someone Biblically literate would know that.
Gen 32:30
30 So Jacob called the place Peniel, saying, “It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared.”
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Please review for the class the other “Biblically literate” instances in scripture where various individuals walked and talked with God?
We’ll wait.
Avatars in the night are one thing. Then there is this:
‘After all, God said, “No man can see Me and live!” (Ex. 33:20, NASB). John 1:18 and 1 John 4:12 both say, “No one has seen God at any time.” First Timothy 6:16 declares that God “alone has immortality, dwelling in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see.” Indeed, God is “of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on wickedness” (Hab. 1:13).’
- http://www.gty.org/resources/questions/QA105/will-we-see-gods-face
Regardless, I am quite confident that the face of God does not carry an unctuous, supercilious smirk.