NO MAN HAS SEEN GOD.

John 1.18
18. No man has seen GOD (GOD Father) at any time, the only begotten GOD (Jesus Christ) Who is in the bosom of the Father, He (Jesus Christ) has *explained Him (GOD Father) (KSB) (John 1.18, 12.44-45, 14.7-9).


~ 18. *Explained.
KJV - "He hath declared Him."
NRSV - "It is GOD the only Son, Who is close to the Father's Heart, Who has made Him known."
NIV - "The Father has made Him known."
ESV - "He has made Him known."
Gideons - "The Father, He has declared Him."
GNB - "He has made Him known."


~ 18. Jesus revealed His Father Spiritually and in physical human body. People never seen GOD in any form except in some visions and dream. In majority of cases, people have to see to believe, in this case Jesus revealed His Father GOD in human flesh and in human form (John 1.18, 12.44-45, 14.7-9).

Because Jesus is the perfect Mirror Image and Reflection of His Father, everyone who saw Jesus actually saw His Father. This also means that no matter in what physical Form Jesus would appear, in this particular Form people will see the GOD His Father, because They Are Both the Same, They Are One.

Jesus also revealed His Father and in a Spiritual Form. Jesus revealed His Father's Character and His Personality in His Laws, Statutes, Teachings, Principals and Ideals. The Holy Spirit of the Highest GOD and His Son Jesus Christ contains all these Spiritual Commandments by which Jesus teach and taught people of Israel.

Jesus also revealed His Father in numerous Miracles, Healings, and in Resurrection of the Dead, showing by these His unlimited power and will and His Eternal Substance of Life.

There is another implication. We cannot know the Father except as revealed in the Son.

The Son is the sole finite, temporal and visible agent of God to do as the infinite eternal God. God is invisible, as the Son of God is not, Colossians 1:15, ". . . Who is the image of the invisible God, . . ." Genesis 12:7, ". . . And the LORD appeared . . . ." See also Ephesians 3:9, noting John 1:2-3, Colossians 1:16-17, Genesis 1:1.

Alex2165 said:

John 1.18
18. No man has seen GOD (GOD Father) at any time, the only begotten GOD (Jesus Christ) Who is in the bosom of the Father, He (Jesus Christ) has *explained Him (GOD Father) (KSB) (John 1.18, 12.44-45, 14.7-9).

~ 18. *Explained.
KJV - "He hath declared Him."
NRSV - "It is GOD the only Son, Who is close to the Father's Heart, Who has made Him known."
NIV - "The Father has made Him known."
ESV - "He has made Him known."
Gideons - "The Father, He has declared Him."
GNB - "He has made Him known."

~ 18. Jesus revealed His Father Spiritually and in physical human body. People never seen GOD in any form except in some visions and dream. In majority of cases, people have to see to believe, in this case Jesus revealed His Father GOD in human flesh and in human form (John 1.18, 12.44-45, 14.7-9).

Because Jesus is the perfect Mirror Image and Reflection of His Father, everyone who saw Jesus actually saw His Father. This also means that no matter in what physical Form Jesus would appear, in this particular Form people will see the GOD His Father, because They Are Both the Same, They Are One.

Jesus also revealed His Father and in a Spiritual Form. Jesus revealed His Father's Character and His Personality in His Laws, Statutes, Teachings, Principals and Ideals. The Holy Spirit of the Highest GOD and His Son Jesus Christ contains all these Spiritual Commandments by which Jesus teach and taught people of Israel.

Jesus also revealed His Father in numerous Miracles, Healings, and in Resurrection of the Dead, showing by these His unlimited power and will and His Eternal Substance of Life.

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I'm astonished/surprised by the fact of the readers /students of the Bible don't discern that MAN already existed before GOD said: "Let us make MAN in our image, after our likeness: and ... "
Yes MAN already EXISTED, but not in the IMAGE of GOD; MAN was only and only made of the dust of the earth whose breath was in his nostrils-Genesis 2:7 and 15-17, and Isaiah 2:22.(GOD calleth those things which be not as though they were-Romans 4:17.)

Well, only after the fall GOD planned(GENESIS) to make man in His image, but how? GOD is Spirit, invisible. What is the image of a spirit?

First step: GOD's decision. Genesis 1:26-GOD said(to JESUS, the beginning), Let us make man in OUR image, after OUR likeness(Hebrews 1:3 combined with John 5:17 and John 1:11-13): and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

2nd step: Execution of GOD's plan: Genesis 1:27 - So GOD created man in His own image, in the image of GOD created he him; male and female created He them. John 1:11-13 and John 5:17. (GOD calleth those things which be not as though they were-Romans 4:17.)

Remember: 1 Corinthians 15:45-47

47 The first MAN is of the earth, earthy; the second MAN is the Lord from heaven(is from a celestial /spiritual environment)

45 The first MAN Adam was made a living soul(whose breath is in his nostrils-Isaiah 2:22); the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual

Genesis 1:31
And GOD saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. (This sixth GOD's Day have just finished, i.e. 6000 years)

Revelation 11:15-18
15...The kingdoms OF THIS WORLD are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of His Christ; and He shall reign for ever and ever
...
And the nations will be angry, and GOD's wrath is come, and the time of the dead, that they should be Judged, and that should give reward unto the servants the prophets, and to the saints, and them that fear His name,small and great; and should destroy them which destroy the earth

GOD BLESS

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