How Can We Believe in a God we can’t See?

The Invisibility of God and the Christian View of Spirit

It's often asked how can we believe God if we cannot see God. Of course within Christian theism We believe that God is a spirit. He is immaterial, and it's a very important attribute of God. It's a very important characteristic of God.

His invisibility so for example if God was not invisible if God could be seen for example God would have a shape and if he has a shape he would have a size and if God had a size he would Have a location and if he had a location he wouldn't be everywhere at once he would lack Omnipresence so the invisibility of God is a very important attribute.

Why God's Invisibility Does Not Make Belief Irrational

God is everywhere. He's not contained in a physical something right and so the Bible says in 1st Timothy chapter 6 verse 16 I believe God has never been seen nor can he be seen. And so skeptics often bring this up as kind of the irrationality of the Christian faith, right?

We believe in a God that we cannot see, but I think that is a patently illogical Objection for example we believe in many things that we don't see for example black holes electrons. The conceptual laws of logic that we use every day.

We do not see these things. There are many things that we do not see with the eye, but we can see their effects so for example I don't see gravity, but I see the effects of Gravity in like fashion. I do not see God with the physical eye.

God’s Effects in Creation and the Evidence of His Existence

He's not an empirical being but we see his effects. The Bible says that the heavens declare the glory of God. We can know God through his creation as a matter of fact the Bible says that his creation is so His existence is so evident from his creation the Bible says that we are without excuse.

So when we look all around I know that's kind of simplistic. But we look all around the heavens declare the glory of God. So simply because we cannot see something doesn't entail that it doesn't exist.

Faith, Experience, and Knowing Christ

I think the Christian is well within his his rights his intellectual rights to believe in God even if he does not see God and of course from an experiential sense when we come into a relationship with Jesus Christ the experience of being in a relationship with Jesus Christ.

And and I'm sure those who are in a relationship with Jesus can attest to this is More real than the things that we see with our physical eyes, so just a couple of things to consider.