Will We See God in the Afterlife?
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- Опубліковано 28 січ 2024
- What is God really like? What attributes does he have? Why are they important for us to know?
This is a Q&A follow-up on our animated video, God is Spirit!
• What is God Like?
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I love that, exactly my understanding as well, we most certainly will meet Jesus. Thank you Dr. Craig.
Matthew 5:8 - Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Hebrews 12: 14 Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.
Yes we will see God face to face. It's our longing
Hebrews 12: 14 Pursue peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no one will see the Lord.
Matthew 5:8 - Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
We will absolutely see Jesus. Face to face we will see Him. That is the hope of every Saint.
HOW did you come to this conclusion?
Rev 22:4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
@@ynotjf You didn't answer the question. You simply quoted a biblical passage.
This is the normal way for Christians to answer a question. To quote a passage of scripture. However this is not an answer. I am not Peter, Paul and Mary. My answer is: I belong to Christ because I am a member of His Body.
1 Corinthians 12:12-13:
12 For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
13 For by one Spirit were we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
@@Theo_Skeptomai
That will suck if God is something that we can’t experience they way we experience each other
I believe I will become a member of Him.
The Church is His Body.
I belong to Him just like a foot or an ear, eye ...
And I have His Spirit.
I will see Him from within.
This is my heavenly calling.
I can't wait for the day I meet my redeemer face to face. Thank you Jesus. ☝️🛐✝️
The physical world and world of the afterlife is actually ‘part’ of God’s form. The cosmos is not God, but it is what God configured ‘part’ of Himself into in order to conceive and gestate the physical bodies in which he brings into being and incubates our eternal soul.
So just as we say that we can’t see the wood for the trees, meaning we can’t see the entire forest because all we see is the cluster of individual trees near to us, in the same way, we see and touch God’s form, or part of His form all the time, but we don’t see the entirety of God by doing so.
However, we do see God’s nature expressed in everything He has made just as Paul said in Rom 1:20.
God is not a being with arms and legs and a head etc, that would be far too limited for the entirety of what God is. It is only what we are because it is what we need and all we need for this stage in our spiritual evolution. But one day, perfect human souls will also grow beyond such a form.
In the afterlife, we will not see God, but we will experience him in everything we see.
I will give a talk about this on my UA-cam channel.
"In the afterlife, we will not see God, but we will experience him in everything we see." Nicely put. However, your first few sentences were confusing. You make God a contingent being-having parts or sections that are contingent, that didn't have to exist, that came into existence, and exist with limited physical qualities and dependence-all within God, as if he had a form or boundary or physicality in the first place. Hope I'm not misunderstanding you?
God does indeed have a form.
But it would not be a form as we understand the term form. You might call it a 'substantial nature'. God has 'internal nature' and 'external form'. Just as everything He created does and is either a full (a perfect man or woman) or partial (fallen man or women or anything in nature from animals, plants, minerals all the way down to atoms and base energy) image/reflection of what He is.
All things God expressed Himself as are masculine/feminine (or positive/negative) and so is God. All things have an internal nature and external expression of that nature and so does God.
Think of God's external form as a super subtle, base energy. Then God, in His perfection and power has perfect control over that form and can configure it how He decides. Not instantly or by magic, but over a process.
So God decides to have children, then he sets to bringing that about and works backwards in design as we do. He first considers what kind of process would be needed to bring eternal souls into being. This is a physical body that needs an environment to live and grow in, which needs a universe, which needs matter, which is based on atoms, which are based on sub atomic particles which are constructed by different/opposing energy waves (think of north/north magnetic fields that although are not matter, they create resistance and a sense of substance) and keep following the process down until you get to the final base energy. That energy is God's external form.
All that God created in the cosmos, meaning the physical universe and the substantial, visible world/environment of the afterlife is not the whole of God, it is God's womb. It already existed in a different form just as a woman's belly does prior to being pregnant, but it is configured by God into an environment to create and gestate human souls.
God is pregnant and His first trimester is in the physical mother' womb where we, His children, develop our physiology and the beginnings of our soul, the second trimester is in the physical body in the physical world were we form our emotion, intellect and will - the foundations of the shape/configuration of a soul, then ideally if we perfect that, meaning, establish the basics, we then go to the third trimester in the afterlife and spend billions of years of refinement until we grow beyond a simple human form and we become like God on a basic beginner level.
So our physical body and our spirit body is 'not' our external form, both are part of God's external form, they are extensions of nature. Our external form is our own base energy which a new soul could never configure. think about it, how can a baby with no self awareness or self control configure it's external substance energy into a sophisticated body? Our physical body is part of God's external form and we live in it and are given control over it. Same in the after life. Then after perfection and eons of refinement and continuous growth in the third trimester true 'birth' is when our aseity reaches a point where we can exist independent of our borrowed form.
And most shocking of all, it is God's wish that we grow to a point were we do not need him. Where we can not only exist, but exist in a state of spiritual life and happiness without God.
This is shocking but think about it, how exhilarating would it be for God if we reached that point but loved God so deeply that it would be inconceivable that we would ever leave God or not love Him.
All children reach a point where they no longer need the parent but love them anyway, it is the ultimate love.
We are contingent beings in the case of our origin, but we are not created to be eternally dependant on God. The highest achievement of God is that He can create beings that can one day exist eternally 'without needing Him'. Yet, in order to reach this state, such beings would have to be of such holiness and awesome beauty and goodness that they would never not love and adore God so they would theoretically have the ability to not love or relate to or need God and could generate their own existence force and joy and love and happiness eternally, yet would always still love and adore God above all others.
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This raises another question-maybe. Should we expect our Resurrected bodies to transcend the laws of physics? Or perhaps the laws will change with the new earth?
John 14:9 (KJV)
"Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?"
You're telling me when Moses looked at God's back, he really wasn't looking at God's back?
Yep, pretty much. Just like when God called Moses through a burning bush 🙂. You honestly think God was a bush of fire?
@@jilesbo9175 No, I honestly do not think that because it was quite clear in the passage regarding the bush that an angel of Yahweh had appeared and spoken to Moses. But the passage I was referring to Yahweh tells Moses he shall literally see his back (Exodus 33).
@@HangrySaturn Wrong again. Tons of verses that say No man has seen God.
@@jilesbo9175 Too bad. Moses did.
@@jilesbo9175 Exodus 33:22-23 "When my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. Then I will remove my hand and you will see my back; but my face must not be seen."
So, this is God telling Moses that he will see God's back, literally. I think what you're referring to is what God explicitly says just a couple of verses prior:
Exodus 33:19-20 - And the Lord said, "I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. But," He said, "you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live."
So God's face cannot be seen by man. I'm sure you recognize that someone can see part of God's form without seeing His face, just like someone can see part of you without seeing your face.
How can you tell if a thought is from god, and not just another one of your thoughts?
If the though aligns with God's will as revealed in the Bible. Also you must have the Holy Spirit to perceive spiritual things including spiritual thoughts with a very high degree of certainty.
@@tomkingg
So if you have read the bible, and you have a thought that goes along with the bible, then that thought was from god?
Still just sounds like you are having a thought.
@@somerandom3247
Well I have experienced a few times gods "voice" a few times now. Last time was around new year.
Every time so far, scripture was directly involved.
I read scripture, then invited the holy spirit to speak to me. He guided my fingers to open the correct page and used the written words to directly speak to me. Thats how it was around new year.
@@Legendendear
How do you know that was god and not just you?
You can see God now.
Can you make a video about gnosticism.
Okay. So we won't apprehend God the father in The afterlife. But will we comprehend him mentally? Will we comprehend or apprehend him mentally in the sense that we will be able to have a mental vision or understand his nature better than we do now? I worried that we will still not have the capacity to understand his nature that much better than we do now.
Why was there a camera pointing out a window?
We won’t see God in the afterlife. We will see Him at His second coming
So you can’t see God but you can see Jesus. Doesn’t that mean Jesus is not god?
No, it means Jesus has both a human nature and a divine nature. His body is part of his human nature, so you can see His body. But He also has a divine nature as invisible Spirit.
Well, since neither god nor an afterlife have ever been proven to exist, I'd have to guess no.
What Dr. Craig think about marijuana use?
Hell is finite in time, not endless and eternal. An eternal hell is a hellish, antiGod doctrine.
That is a _loaded_ question and a cowardly tactic of argument. It has not been established that there is such a thing as an afterlife.
Yes it has, not in this video though.
@JM-jj3eg Yes, WHAT had established?
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There is no god and there is no after life,
nope! Because there is no god and no afterlife
Okay? Please justify your claim, what evidence are you basing your radical claim on?🤔
@@Tobi_237 Because Sam Harris told him so, of course. 😀
@@Zuungie I sure hope that’s not it😅
ua-cam.com/video/TA11oWsxGd8/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared has comments disabled. Morals are dependant on purposes and so dont exist without a mind.
No we will only see a limited version which is Jesus
Jesus aint the true form