Then why is Paul speaking in a future sense if the scripture is talking about those who SAW(past tense) Jesus when he walked in flesh?
As in “NOW we see dimly….but THEN face-to-face”….NOW I know in part but THEN I WILL KNOW in full…”
Unless I’m missing something, It just doesn’t seem to line up.
God is not a man he has no face . he is the eternal Spirit of all truth without beginning of Spirt life or end thereof of. the father of all sprit life .
Face to face is the same as faith (the unseen power of the will of God ) to the same faith as a labor of His love that works in us. it is always in respect to the revealed knowledge .Never after what they see the temporal corrupted . Ee continue to walk by faith the unseen eternal
1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then
face to face: now
I know (not seen)
in part; but then shall I
know (not seen) even as also I am known.(not seen)
2 Corinthians 4:6 For God, who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts,
to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the
face of Jesus Christ
Jesus as the Son of man as prophet and chief apostle was to reflect the glory of God like the Moon reflects the power of the Sun .
We would never glory in the representation used as a one time demonstration of the power of our Father.
Before Jesus disappeared out of sight our Father gave him words to make sure mankind did not confuse the creation with the Faithful Creator, the Spirt of Truth having no form . . . we must walk by faith or we will not hear the gospel .
Not one more demonstration was propmised .God is not a man as us .He works in us as representation of his unseen glory .Just as he worked in Jesus the Son of man
2 Corinthains 5: 16 Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.