Seeing is believing, or so we are told. But if that’s true, how can we ever be expected to believe in God? Several biblical texts make it clear that God is, by nature, invisible. It isn’t just that he has not been seen: he CANNOT be seen (cf. John 1:18; Romans 1:20; 1 Timothy 6:16; Hebrews 11:27). Even here in Colossians 1:15 he is described as “the invisible God.” In Romans 1:20, Paul says that God’s existence and eternal
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