is it not true, that people who meet god, have died. turned into fish or something maybe, even. dead man walking sort of thing.
Yeah, sort of..
This is just kind of a guess (a wild guess). but it makes sense to me, and who knows, maybe it is something God has given to me as understanding. Or I am just whacked, take your pick
I kind of look at being in the presence of God and compare it in this way.
Pick out an object that can withstand any temperature of fire.
When it is new you can throw it into the fire and it doesn't do anything to it.
But if it is old and has been laying around a long time and it has gotten dirty, and grimy and bugs have gotten all over it, cats have come up and peeded on it, a few dogs have taken a dump on it. There are maggots and flies in the poop and just made it a complete mess.
It looks like crap, smells like crap and basically is kind of disgusting looking.
Now throw it in the fire. The fire will have a cleansing affect. Since the object itself cannot be destroyed by fire it exists. but all the stuff and junk and poop and pee that was all over it is destroyed in the fire. Any living creature such as maggots and flies etc parish in the fire.
I look at us humans the same way.
When Adam and Eve were created, they were pure, without sin (all the junk and mess was not piled up on them from generations of sin) so they could stand before God (the ultimate cleansing fire) without being affected. Even when they sinned because it was one sin.
Even when Cain slew Abel. He was the second generation of human so he did not have enough impurities (junk you might say) in his DNA so he would not be physically affected by the presence of God.
But as time grew on and more people sinned, and did things that were sinful it left a physical stain on the human DNA (they can detect if you did LSD through DNA samples of your hair)
So for all we know when we sin it very well could change our DNA structure ever so slightly. Call if "evolution" if you like.
But unlike an object that can withstand fire so the outside can be cleaned. Our bodies impurities begin to be part of our DNA structure that cannot really be removed through intense fire all at once without totally destroying us.
I believe this would account for one reason why God had to start showing himself less and less physically to this world because of the sin nature of humans his presence would be harmful to them.
I believe the bible teaches that God cannot be in the presence of sin, which is why we cannot stand before him.
Try looking at it this way, instead of thinking "God cannot be in the presence of sin"
think instead:
"God cannot be in the presence of sin without the sin being utterly destroyed, and in the case of most humans this would result in so much shock to the body the human could not withstand it and survive.
Now I believe a human who walks with God, serves God with all of his heart, that God like a skillful surgeon begins to slowly remove these impure DNA traces. as each impurity is removed from your body it allows you to physically get a little closer to God.
If God can remove enough impuritys, there can become a point where a human could face God with some damage but not enough to cause death.
Such as in the case of Moses.
Moses was a prophet of God. he walked with God and God walked with Moses
And while Moses was born into sin, he spent almost all of his life serving God with love and with great passion.
When Moses went to the top of
Mount Sinai he was old, but I believe God had by that time cleansed most of the impurities out of his DNA so he could withstand being in the presence of God.
I believe this would account for the appearance of Moses when he came back from being with God. The accounts say his hair had turned white and he was glowing. Well to me this makes perfect sense if someones entire DNA structure had just been cleansed of impurities.
Often when you throw metals and such into fires they have whitish color to them.
I also believe this is another reason (or dare I even say the main reason) for the need for Jesus. Since humans DNA became so impure making it more and more difficult for God to communicate even with the high priests. He required a mediator that could walk in both realms and could be in the presence of God and in the presents of humans without being destroyed by God or corrupted by the world.
The perfect Solution. God would have to come to man in human form.
this is why Jesus is soooo important and why people have to go to Jesus to get to God.
Before Jesus came people would go to the high priests in the temple, confess their sins, then the high priests would go into the holy of holy's before God on behalf of the people.
it took special priests to do this. and only these priests were allowed in the holy of holy's AND they had to prepare properly before they went in. I believe this was for their own safety because of the whole God's essence just automatically burning away any sin in his presence.
But even priests from time to time would die when entering the most holy of holy's
When Jesus died on the cross it was finished. the seed he needed to plant on this earth so that the word would spread about him had been planted. once this was accomplish it was time for him to leave and allow the seed to grow.
Jesus now becoming humans mediator, God no longer required the need for the priests.
God knew the priests DNA were becoming corrupt as any other human and eventually the pure priests would all die off. God knew this would eventually happen and as I said, Jesus was the answer.
A great symbology of this is when Jesus gave up his spirit and his fleshed passed. at that moment there was a great earth quake, and the curtain in the temple that separated the most holy of Holy's from the rest of the world was torn in two.
This was the sign from God that Jesus had taken over the role of mediator between God and humans and priests were no longer needed.
The problem is the priests did not want to be out of a job, being priests is how they lived. What would they do? And at that time most of the priests didn't believe Jesus was the son of God so they continued being priests even though it was no longer needed.
I also believe ALL of this explains why the bible says that when we die we are given a new pure eternal body and why our current one needs to be shed.
As a Christian who believes in Christ with all of their heart and mind, Jesus cleanses the spirit and makes the spirit of the human pure, but the flesh is still corrupt. When the time is right, and your spirit is fully cleansed by Jesus working in your life, you then are able to shed your corrupt earthly shell just as the caterpillar sheds it's body and cacoon and becomes a butterfly.
I also believe all of the above I just laid out is another reason why some people say they cant talk to God, they don't see God, they cant hear God.
Stop looking for God, God cannot lay his eyes upon you in the state you are in, look for Jesus, Jesus will gladly come to you, he will prepare you so that you can one day be in the presence of God. And when you are ready, Jesus will take you before God. But until then focus on Jesus. and since Jesus is God come to man, Jesus is God.
And one last note, for people that do not understand things in the bible, and they have a difficult time wrapping their mind around the whole trinity thing and how could Jesus be God AND be the son of God.
Dont get wrapped up around the Axel on it. We cannot fathom all things at once, we need to be spoon fed the word. as we grow in the word and become more mature, the more we can be fed.
What you don't understand today, you might understand with clarity tomorrow. But the bottom line, don't worry about it. when you are meant to understand it, you will but until then keep focus on Jesus so he can like a surgeon remove the sin from your life preparing you for an eternal life with God. And the more sin that is removed, the closer you are able to get to God, the more of Gods word will make sense to you.
In his name
