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Do Moses Five Books of Torah give any support to the idea of God personally coming to Earth in the form of a man named Jesus?




To begin with, we must state that, to be obsessed with the idea of God ever “coming to Earth in a human form” [so that He is forced to be born, grow up, attain emotional maturity, learn wisdom, and overcome the ignorance that characterizes toddlers] is tantamount to blasphemy. Why? Simply because it is a veiled denial of the God of the Hebrew Scripture (of God’s very nature! ).
In other words, Torah states that the Creator is omnipresent [so He doesn't need to come to Earth in any shape or form, as He has always been here! ]; Torah states that God is eternal [so it would be wrong to portray Him as been born-- as that would imply that God actually had a beginning]; Torah states that God is all knowing [so that, unlike human beings, He doesn't need to learn anything]; and, finally, Torah states that God is all powerful [so He doesn't need to grow, to mature, or to overcome anything].
And the fact that so many people still cling to the backward idea of the God of Israel “coming down to Earth” in the form of a normal human being speaks volumes about the sad spiritual state of our present generation.
Why? Simply because even Babylonian pagans knew that the divinity does not dwell with flesh and blood (“… and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh ”- Daniel 2: 11, KJV).
Curiously, the New Testament seems to acknowledge this interpretation, stating that when Paul began preaching the gospel, a pagan multitude mistakenly took him for a god [disguised as a human being]; but he reproached the multitude, and encouraged them to abandon such vain ideas. As is written
“And when the people saw what Paul had done, they lifted up their voices, saying in the speech of Lycaonia, The gods are come down to us in the likeness of men …Which when the apostles, Barnabas and Paul, heard of, they rent their clothes… crying out… why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preach unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God ”- Acts 14: 11, 14, & 15, KJV.
Truth be told, if you were to read the five books of Moses [without any Christian bias], it would be self evident that the former teaches no one can see God's literal manifestation, and live on to talk about it. As is written:
" And He (God) said, Thou canst not see my face: for there shall no man see me, and live" - Exodus 33: 20, KJV. Thus, our master Moses teaches that, whenever God seems to have physically appeared to some person, if such person has survived the encounter, it is clear that He didn't really see God's literal manifestation.
What did he see instead? He most likely saw one of God's many messenger's (or “angels”). Thus, Scripture teaches that, the God who delivered the Israelites from the Egyptian bondage [and later guided them thru the wilderness in the form of a cloud [and pillar of fire] wasn't literally God, but rather an angel sent by God.
And the former is attested by the verses that go on to say: “... and when we cried unto the Lord, He heard our voice, and (He) sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt”- Numbers 20: 16; And also says in another place: “Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him”- Exodus 23: 20-21.
In fact, king Solomon [the wisest of al men] acknowledges the impossibility of an infinite God literally dwelling on Earth, as the whole Universe (the heavens of heavens) isn't large enough to stand all of His glory. As is written: “ But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee ”- 1 Kings 8: 27
Does the former mean Christianity is a false and/or invalid religion? Of course not! It only means that, not knowing God's Law, Christian believers worship what they don't really know. But since God is not so interested in our precise theology as much as He is in our sincere repentance and obedience, all God fearing Christian believers can rest assured that they too will have a good share in the world to come.

 

the Creator [blessed be He] doesn't say: " This [religious] path will lead you to me, but this other path won't lead you to me"... He rather says, " No matter which path you choose to follow, it can lead you to me, if you decide to live it so that it leads you to me"... And maybe this is what the Christian gospel really means, when it goes on to say: " You’ll recognize them by their fruit. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes or figs from thistles? In the same way, every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit" - Matthew 7: 16-17 (Christian Standard Bible). And also in another place: " Dear friend, do not imitate what is evil, but what is good. The one who does good is of God; the one who does evil has not seen God" - 1 John 3: 11 (Christian Standard Bible).

 

 

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