When Jacob wrestled with a man in Genesis 32, he says, “I have seen the face of God and lived!”
On the one hand, no he didn’t.
But on the other hand, Jacob thinks he did, and this isn’t theologically problematic. The narrator doesn’t rush in to correct Jacob. Jacob seems to move through life as though he did meet God face to face and is in awe, and we just wonder, “who was that man? How did he rename Jacob to Israel?”
I’m wrestling w/ this text from a Jewish lens, and from a Christian lens. There are so many ways to read this.