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

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.

God is everywhere. He's not contained in a physical something, right? And so the Bible says in 1

Timothy 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. 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 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.

I think the Christian is well within 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 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.