Why is God invisible?

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This question might be a child’s first question, but children speak wisdom sometimes.
So why is God invisible.
 
Why He is invisible to the senses? Because He is metaphysically simple, meaning that He isn’t made up of matter.
 
God’s existence isn’t within space or time. And by that, I don’t mean He is in some parallel space. He has no parts. He has no extension in space. He has no localization. There’s nothing in space to see.
 
Wesrock said:
God’s existence isn’t within space or time. And by that, I don’t mean He is in some parallel space. He has no parts. He has no extension in space. He has no localization. There’s nothing in space to see.
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Then where is he?
 
ANV said:
Then where is he?
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If you’ll permit me to put the question of Jesus and the union of the second person of the Trinity and a human body and soul in his person aside…

God doesn’t have a physical “where.”
 
Wesrock said:
God’s existence isn’t within space or time. And by that, I don’t mean He is in some parallel space. He has no parts. He has no extension in space. He has no localization. There’s nothing in space to see.
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Isn’t that the definition of nothing?
 
STT said:
Isn’t that the definition of nothing?
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From the dictionary I just checked, no, it’s not the definition of nothing. But a more theological response might be “No… and yes.” It depends in what manner you speak of God and the approach you employ.

The “no” is because what i said in now way implies non-existence. You would be right in saying that something that has no impact on the world, no manner of interaction with it, would for all intents and purposes be non-being. However, that is certainly not the claim about God, who is the eternal cause of reality for all moments of reality. And, if we accept any form of divine revelation, we see a God who is not just a cause (which would be sufficient to deny non-being) but one who actively reveals himself to humanity and desires their cooperation with Him.

The “yes”, on the other hand, isn’t to deny His existence, but follows from His complete otherness to anything else that exists, such that it’s inappropriate to call Him a “thing” properly, such that He can be properly said to be “no thing” (two words) but not to imply He is non-existent (in the sense, anyway, of being the negation of existence; apophatic-only theology isn’t my strongest suit). So for a theist to say God is “no thing” would follow not from a denial of Him being but from a denial of Him being termed a thing.
 
I wanted to comment on the idea of God’s omnipresence. There’s a lot that could be said, but it should be noted that God can be said to be present to things, not as one body is near another, but in terms of an agent being present where He operates. In that He operates on everything, He is omnipresent. As an operator and cause, He is immediately in every place and everywhere, though not bodily in every place.

Before I was emphasizing His not having a body. But there are ways to talk of His presence as well, even the presence of His substance, in a Thomist sense of the word.
 
God is pure energy. More often than not people in near death experiences talk about the “light.” God’s energy is seen as pure light. Can it be seen here on earth? Some stories in the bible say so.
 
Why is looking diectly at the noon day sun bad. God would be infinitely worse! He is doing us a favor by being invisible!
 
Not sure if this helps but I heard a theologian/apologist, Dr David Anders, once describe God as follows to an atheist.

He caveats with the fact that this is an imperfect example, but said most people to including Catholics/Christians have the wrong view of God. They think that if the Universe were a single plane then God would be the biggest most powerful thing on it. There would be humans in one corners, all the way up to planets and stars in another part but God would be the biggest and most powerful thing. He is not, He is more like the plane itself. Everything exists because He is…

Hope that helped, a better way to get an answer is to talk to Dr David Anders on a show called “Called to Communion” where he tackles these tough questions posed by Catholics and non-Catholics everyday.

My question to you is, do you believe in air? Space? Black holes? Gravity? As far as I know these things are invisible, why do you believe in them, if you can’t see them?
 
Our eyes can only see reflected light.

God is spirit, according to Scripture, and spirit does not reflect light.

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Then where is he?
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Thousands of years ago, God was described as “I am”, the “I” being God. I think that description is hard to beat from the standpoint of having an explanation that is accessible across the where, who and when of humanity - that is to say, across cultures and times.

I think omnipresent is a good description also. Also the phrase, “God is” may be apt.
 
You can’t see God because God doesn’t have a body.
It is the same reason we can’t see people’s souls. Souls aren’t physical.
Or it is the same reason you can’t see someone’s thoughts.
Obviously there is an order of reality, or at least one of them, that isn’t physical.
 
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