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

Revealed Apologetics

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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.

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He is immaterial, and it's a very important attribute of God. It's a very important characteristic of God, His invisibility.

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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,

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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.

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He would lack omnipresence. So the invisibility of God is a very important attribute.

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

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Timothy 6, verse 16, I believe, God has never been seen, nor can

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He be seen. And so skeptics often bring this up as kind of the irrationality of the

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Christian faith, right? We believe in a God that we cannot see. But I think that is a patently illogical objection.

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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.

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We do not see these things. There are many things that we do not see with the eye, but we can see their effects.

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So, for example, I don't see gravity, but I see the effects of gravity.

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In like fashion, I do not see God with the physical eye. He's not an empirical being, but we see

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His effects. The Bible says that the heavens declare the glory of God. We can know God through His creation.

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As a matter of fact, the Bible says that His existence is so evident from His creation, the

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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.

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So, simply because we cannot see something doesn't entail that it doesn't exist.

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I think the Christian is well within his intellectual rights to believe in God, even if he does not see

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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.