Reeeeeeee. You pick and choose whatever you want and decide what is a metaphor and what is literal. That's called delusion. Then you create a dogma around the fact that only your interpretation is the right one.

Please remind us how many Christian sub factions are there each one with their hot take? That's right even Christians can't decide among themselves bunch of clowns lol

the phrase "face to face" a translation from ancient documents from an ancient culture. A person has to be pretty deluded to insist it has to be literal and if that person is that deluded why should any one listen to him about anything.

If you look at the earlier manuscripts, which are earlier than this stone I bet, they are closely lined with the modern day Bible. Not much difference and the only issues are mostly spelling differences of the same word that changed over the centuries, a couple of disputed passages that are very small and do not change the over all message or doctrine of the Bible at all. Also, textural criticism proves the preservation of Scripture. The Dead Sea Scrolls also proved the preservation of Scripture predating the earliest manuscripts of that time by over 1000 years and yet being virtually idendical.

Because he is describing the entire encounter vividly. Including meeting an angel, he wrestles a man which he asks to bless him, weird encounter a man wrestles you and he asking for his blessing (like wtf?) . The man then tells him his name is no longer Jacob because he just wrestled with God aka himself. Then he says indeed I have seen God face to face because he just put God in a chokehold but God still got his hip busted. At the end he was limping Because of his hip that was torn by God all in one night. This entire story is so random af. One night is sitting there tralala out of nowhere a man starts wrestling with him. 0 context just straight up starts fighting Jacob.
What kind of God starts beating up his followers and dislocates their joints because he is losing??


Or maybe this is whole story was made up to scare little kids by people who were high on fermented goats juice?

1 Corinthians 13:12
King James Version

12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

(what does it mean "face to face" what does the whole scripture mean?)

The thing is, your question has no purpose behind it. You are not pursuing any further clarification on Scripture. Would answering that bring you any closer to God? I certainly don't think so. The purpose of your question was to put the spotlight on me and what I'm like as a person.

Who I am has absolutely no bearing on whether or not you believe because it's always been about Jesus. He is the focus and not me. Even if I did simply answer, no doubt you would have asked a follow up question just to bring us further off topic. That doesn't work with me.

Like TiStuff said, the contradiction argument didn't even originate from you. If those 2 verses were stumbling blocks then why didn't you post them a lot sooner? Wouldn't those 2 verses be posted a lot more as an argument if they were a direct contradiction? Why isn't that your go to argument? I'll tell you why, you are simply wrong in your assumptions.

You saw the original post and your mind was made up then and there. It would be a hopeless cause to explain it to you.

Ignores context inserts another random quote. Keep reeeeeing

Mental gymnastics/10

ill pray for you deer

Oh the irony.

You definitely lack purpose with your statements. Do you even know what your purpose is for being here? Don't you even realize that it is all about Jesus and not about us?