what image are we talking about?
Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
Colossians 1:15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
John 14:9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
I guess that Philip doesn't recognizes that Jesus beard was the same size of God's beard, and so Jesus has to be God by comparison by the flesh, not by the spirit; and or is it the other way around.
Romans 1:20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
Colossians 1:15 The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation.
John 14:9 Jesus answered: “Don’t you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, ‘Show us the Father’?
I guess that Philip doesn't recognizes that Jesus beard was the same size of God's beard, and so Jesus has to be God by comparison by the flesh, not by the spirit; and or is it the other way around.
Whereas Jesus Christ, he was the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person
Seeing him (as in his expressed person) was seeing the Father (who no man has seen) who was the image of the invisible (not the visible) God. The inward (the word was made flesh, but God was not know after the flesh)
Beholding his glory is shown this way as his glory was to be in us to do so.
2Cr 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Paul speaks of not knowing a man after the flesh (including Christ)
2Cr 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.
Shows Philip knowing Christ after the flesh (outward) verses Spirit (inward)
John 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Jesus Christ, Who is the image of the invisible God
John 14:8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us.
Heb 1:3 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person
John 14:9 Jesus saith unto him,
Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
John 14:10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
Again,
He is the express image of his person
John 14:7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.
Seeing him in the flesh (or knowing him after the flesh) is not knowing him
Again,
2Cr 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.
They beheld the glory as of the only begotten, Who is the brightness of his glory. Of the same glory he has also given them to behold him as in a glass being changed from one degree of glory unto another as by the Spirit. That we might be like him who is the image of the invisible (not visible) God. Thus speaking of to the inward image (not outward)
John 17:22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
Which is by the same Spirit
2Cr 3:18 But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
Not here
James 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
So in the first they are beholding with an open face as in a glass the glory (of the Lord) being transformed inwardly into the same inward image. Going from one degree of glory to another as by the abiding Spirit. Whereas if one be a hearer of the word and not a doer he is still as a man beholding his natural face in a glass.
Knowing the Lord is as by the Spirit (not after the flesh). Even as we are not to know Christ, or any man after the flesh. Even though he known (at one after that) having come in the flesh. That seemed to act as a veil (trying to in that manner) which shows more of the same veil upon ones heart.