Becoming a theologian: God's invisibility

We continue on with our study of God's communicable attributes and today we come to God's invisibility. If something is invisible, we cannot see it. Though we may not see God, God reveals himself to us through visible, created things. Invisibility is another attribute that describes God's being.

No one has ever seen God, but God the One and Only, who is at the Father's side, has made him known.

John 1:18

Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

1 Timothy 1:17

• From these two verses, we can see (ha ha) two things:
1. No one has seen God.
2. No one can see God.
• Just as we discussed briefly yesterday, we personally have never seen God.
• Have you ever seen evidence of God? If so, what did you see?
• We know that God is omnipresent, which means that's He's everywhere, which implies that He is here with us. Do you see Him? Do you know that He is here.
• If you were invisible, how would you get someone know you were there?
• Knowing that God is invisible, what are some ways that we know He's there?
• How, you may ask, can we say that invisibility is communicable? Obviously, we can see each other. But what we see is our physical bodies. Yesterday, we talked about how we have spirits. Can you see someone else's spirit? Isn't that invisible?