2006-12-12 11:01:24 · 6 answers · asked by antoinette r 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Try Genesis 32
2006-12-12 11:02:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
On various occasions when individuals were visited or addressed by an angelic messenger of Jehovah, the individuals, or at times the Bible writer setting out the account, responded to or spoke of that angelic messenger as though he were Jehovah God. (Compare Ge 16:7-11, 13; 18:1-5, 22-33; 32:24-30; Jg 6:11-15; 13:20-22.) This was because the angelic messenger was acting for Jehovah as his representative, speaking in his name, perhaps using the first person singular pronoun, and even saying, “I am the true God.” (Ge 31:11-13; Jg 2:1-5)
That is what the case is here. Jacob was not wrestling with God. He was wrestling with God's angel.
2006-12-12 19:02:52 · answer #2 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Gen 32:24 And Yaaqob (Jacob) was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
2006-12-12 19:03:32 · answer #3 · answered by YUHATEME 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John 1:18 No man has seen God at any time; the only-begotten god who is in the bosom [position] with the Father is the one that has explained him.
"At anytime" includes Jacob's account. It had had to be God's angel.
Notice Judges 13:21 And Jehovah’s angel did not repeat appearing to Ma·no´ah and his wife anymore. Then it was that Ma·no´ah knew that he had been Jehovah’s angel. 22 Consequently Ma·no´ah said to his wife: “We shall positively die, because it is God that we have seen.”
2006-12-14 12:59:02 · answer #4 · answered by TeeM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Genesis 32: 24And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
25And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
26And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
27And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
28And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
29And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
30And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
2006-12-12 19:05:38 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Genesis 32 - I was always taught it was an angel, not God.
2006-12-12 19:12:45 · answer #6 · answered by masha 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋