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rasifnajeeb said:Exodus 33:20: "And he said, Thou canst not see my face; for there shall no man see me and live."
Genesis 32:30: "For I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved."
When one statement says - "cannot see face" and the other says "saw face", there is no temporary or permanent forms here.
I would have agreed to your argument had one statement been "cannot see me" and the other statement - "saw face" or vice versa.
Why do you not settle with and adress the difficulty in Exo. 33:11 and 33:20? When you quote all sorts of books in the Bible to make your point, it seems to me you avoid the implications in your contradiction being found in a single passage. Now what could this imply? That the scribes did not see this as a problem?
But when we are talking about all sorts of OT books, then notice in the examples people show you here the difference when God appears more modestly as a man or angel and then that glorious/frightening presence of Gen. 33:20. On top of all these physical manifestations/imaginations about God, then add this observation:
1 Kings 8:27 But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
That makes sense, since all the OT claims God created them. So differing degrees of manifestation should be the obvious answer to your question.