Just have a interesting fellowship...though I admit I could have done better.
At Exodus 3, I brought in, as Calvin did, the possibility of another case of Christophany-Christ's manifestation, particularly in the Old Testament. As usual, Lyna was sitting uncomfortably again and unlike before, she finally let it out...her objection to Christophany.
Christophany is used by many reformers, to properly show the importance of Christ as the only mediator of God and man, and that no one comes to the Father except through Christ. For anyone who sees God will die. Exo 33:11, 33:20.
Knowing that, obviously, Lyna admit the doctrine of Christophany, so she didn't talk about it, but talked about how seeing God means getting saved...I pointed clearly that the Bible talks about entering the Kingdom of God and salvation, but it does mean one must know the Father. Seeing God face to face means "one has obtained salvation". Immediately, she switched to another subject to find other excuses for her point.
Obviously, I could easily ask her: Do you believe in Christophany in the context of the Old Testament? This would already call her bluff as a liar. Perhaps I shall give her a chance, till next time, should opportunity arises.
As I had once told her, "having reformed knowledge does not make one reformed".
Christophany is a good and biblically legal way of not only explain to anyone how OT saints could "meet" God and yet survive? That it is because MAYBE, they have seen the second person, the eternal son of God, whom no one would have to die in fellowship with Him, either in OT or in NT.
So I would give Lyna the benefit of the doubt, that she was just a very very confused soul. Instead of being a mere liar. But one wonders, since I can relate, some similarity to today's evangelicals, though they know of Christ's duality (fully human, fully God), they do not fully embrace Christ's Godhood, they do not know how, nor do they want to pursue it.
In a way, when a reformer say: Jesus is God!
I most likely respond: Amen!
But when an evangelical say: Jesus is God!
I would probably reply: Jesus does not need your promotion.
When we truly see Jesus as God, we absorb that understanding in the fulness of holy fear as did the ancient Saints, as Moses hiding his face, as Isaiah cried (Isa 6:5) Woe is me for I am undone!
Thus, it is explained, no contradiction on Moses' meeting with THE Angel of God at the burning bush, with the understanding of Christophany here. But if one wishes to disregard this doctrine, the contradiction of man meeting God - live or die, the confusion of which manifestation of God is the real presence of God or just His mask or His tool - created or not, are problems one needs to solve, not my problem.