Originally posted by sonship
If you truly listen to God's Word the Bible, how do you understand
(John 1:18) No man has seen God at any time;
Did men see Jesus?" If so, Jesus cannot be God.
The only begotten Son in the bosom of the Father has declared, manifested and defined God the Father to us.
The rest of that passage says that the Son has declared Him - th ...[text shortened]... raise, not analyzing but saying [b]"Amen" and thanking God and repenting for being a sinner.[/b]
The Bible also says Jesus is the image of God. An image is not the real thing and that too proves that no man has seen God. We know Him because we see the image of Him in Christ.
But getting back to the original post, the Bible uses "day" in many ways,i.e.
In prophecy a day is at times used to stand for one year. This can be noted at Ezekiel 4:6: “You must lie upon your right side in the second case, and you must carry the error of the house of Judah forty days. A day for a year, a day for a year, is what I have given you.”—See also Nu 14:34.
The term “day(s)” is also used with reference to a time period contemporaneous with a particular person, as for example, “the days of Noah” and “the days of Lot.”—Lu 17:26-30; Isa 1:1.
Other cases where the word “day” is used in a flexible or figurative sense are: “the day of God’s creating Adam".
This flexible use of the word “day” to express units of time of varying length is clearly evident in the Genesis account of creation. Therein is set forth a week of six creative days followed by a seventh day of rest.
In the Scriptural record the account of each of the six creative days concludes with the statement: “And there came to be evening and there came to be morning” a first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth day. (Ge 1:5, 8, 13, 19, 23, 31)
The seventh day, however, does not have this ending, indicating that this period, during which God has been resting from his creative works toward the earth, continued on. At Hebrews 4:1-10 the apostle Paul indicated that God’s rest day was still continuing in his generation, and that was more than 4,000 years after that seventh-day rest period began. This makes it evident that each creative day, or work period, was at least thousands of years in length. As A Religious Encyclopædia (Vol. I, p. 613) observes: “The days of creation were creative days, stages in the process, but not days of twenty-four hours each.”—Edited by P. Schaff, 1894.
The entire period of the six time units or creative “days” dedicated to the preparation of planet Earth is summed up in one all-embracing “day” at Genesis 2:4: “This is a history of the heavens and the earth in the time of their being created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.”
To understand judgement day as a 24 hour period does not seem to be accurate.
It is more likely an extended "day" of undefined length.
Also, Matthew 24:36 refers to the time of Jesus' presence as King or parousia.
Again a lengthier day would be more appropriate as he has much to do.
i.e. (Daniel 11:35) And some of those having insight will be made to stumble, in order to do a refining work because of them and to do a cleansing and a whitening until the time of the end; because it is yet for the time appointed.
(Ephesians 5:26) in order that he might sanctify it (the Congregation), cleansing it with the bath of water by means of the word,
(Matthew 24:14) And this good news of the Kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.
along with other things.
(Psalm 2:6-9) Saying: “I myself have installed my king On Zion, my holy mountain.” 7鈥疞et me proclaim the decree of Jehovah; He said to me: “You are my son; Today I have become your father. 8鈥疉sk of me, and I will give nations as your inheritance And the ends of the earth as your possession. 9鈥痀ou will break them with an iron scepter, And you will smash them like a piece of pottery.”