Is God really the Villain of the Old Testament or has He been wrongly accused? If He has been wrongly accused, who is Responsible for the False Accusation? Part 9

Part 9

In John chapter one we read, “No man has seen God". The word "seen" when expanded means "to know by experience, to perceive or to be acquainted with”. Nobody in history past really knew the nature of God. Jesus comes from heaven to ea

rth, He is the embodiment of the Father, to reveal the Father’s true nature to humanity, He is the express image of God.

Have we missed the reality of this statement? When John said no one knew God, did he really mean it? Was John inspired by God when he said it? When John said no one had a clear understanding of who God was, wouldn’t that also include all pre-cross people, including those known as the sacred writers?

Jesus Himself says in John 5:37 And the Father himself, which hath sent me, hath borne witness of me. Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his shape.

Again in John 17:25-26 he prays, O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.

When Jesus says; I will declare your name, He is saying I will declare (who you are, your nature and character). The fall had so blurred our vision, so warped our nature it was impossible to truly know God while believing the lie of Satan. Jesus is the light that came to show us who God truly is. “The world has not known you, but I have and I will declare to them who you are!”

John 8:19 Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.

If you know Me, you would know the Father. If you don’t know Jesus you don’t really know the Father. Did the Old Testament writers know Jesus as well as a born again believer can and should? Did not Jesus Himself say that the least in the Kingdom of God is greater than the greatest Old Testament prophet?

And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err, because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God? (Mark 12:24)

Was Jesus actually saying that they didn’t know the scriptures? Most scholars agree and Jesus knew that this group of people did know the scriptures knowledge wise, but not from experience or from God's perspective. Once again Jesus was telling them they didn’t really see, they still believed the deception thus, remained behind a wall of partition that He has destroyed.

The reason most religious people do not see understand God's nature is because their view of Jesus is clouded by religious spectcles that they wear. We need the Holy Spirit to perform laser surgery so we can throw away the religious spectcles so we can see Jesus for Who He is...The express image of God the Father. Any understanding of God that we have that does not line up with the Character of Jesus, is not a picture of God the Father. It is a figment of a carry over of the "great lie" of Satan's deception that characterized God has creating or ordaining evil.

Not that anyone has seen the Father, except He who is from God; He has seen the Father. (John 6:46)

Do the words of Jesus mean anything? How many verses does it take for us to open our eyes to the truth? What will it take before we agree with Jesus and simply say that no one knew God experientially for who He is before Jesus came on the scene? Is it possible we have let the writers (who knew not the character of God) of the Old Testament mean more to us than what Jesus (the express image of God) said ?

Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life. (John 5:39-40)

Part 10 to follow