If someone looks at the full moon and then closes their eyes, the knowledge that the moon exists may remain while the present act of seeing ceases. Thus vision should not be reduced to a remembered concept or previously acquired information.
The Prophetic comparison with seeing the moon explains the clarity and lack of confusion of the promised vision. The likeness is in the certainty and clarity of seeing, not in God’s shape, location, size, or resemblance to the moon.
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Vision of God: Possibility, Evidence, Objections and Transcendence
If someone looks at the full moon and then closes their eyes, the knowledge that the moon exists may remain while the present act of seeing ceases. Thus vision should not be reduced to a remembered concept or previously acquired information.
The Prophetic comparison with seeing the moon explains the clarity and lack of confusion of the promised vision. The likeness is in the certainty and clarity of seeing, not in God’s shape, location, size, or resemblance to the moon.