No one has ever seen God...
John 1:18a
"No one has ever seen God", yet we know from Scripture that Adam, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, and Joshua all saw God with their own eyes. John loves to present apparent contradictions that require the reader to pause and think deeply about his intended meaning. Never forget this as you read his Gospel!
Moses revealed God in part, the prophets added some depth, and Yeshua revealed God more fully than ever before. Yet no one has ever seen nor ever will see the fullness of YHWH in all his glory and complexity, because he is beyond human comprehension!
For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
John 1:17 ESV
Some translations incorrectly insert a "but" between the two clauses in this verse. The Law is not opposed to Grace and Truth. They work together. The Law given through Moses contains/reveals grace and truth, while the grace and truth given through Yeshua contains/reveals the true meaning and purpose of the Law.
John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks ahead me, because he preceded me.’”
John 1:15
#yeshua was conceived six months after John the Immerser, yet John proclaimed that Yeshua existed before he did. This is true because, although his body was created, his being has always existed. I think most English translations obscure the meaning in this verse a little by translating two different words as "before".
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"Because thou servedst not Yahweh thy God with joyfulness, and with a good heart, for the abundance of all things; therefore thou shalt serve thine enemies which Yahweh shall send upon thee, in hunger and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in need of all things: and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck until he have destroyed thee."
De 28
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