Invisible

[Jesusfreak97]

So I was reading this book, "Children's letters to God" and one of the letters asked "God are you invisible or is that just a trick?" It got me thinking.... Obviously we can't see God but He's deffinitly here. That question blew my mind. I mean what physical evidence do we have for God? Yet we all KNOW He's right here. I don't know how to explain it....but it just got me thinking....any thoughts?

 

[elijah23]

So I was reading this book, "Children's letters to God" and one of the letters asked "God are you invisible or is that just a trick?" It got me thinking.... Obviously we can't see God but He's deffinitly here. That question blew my mind. I mean what physical evidence do we have for God? Yet we all KNOW He's right here. I don't know how to explain it....but it just got me thinking....any thoughts?

I've always thought of the Lord being a spirit. Hadn't thought of him being some extra-dimensional physical being. I'd lean towards his being a spirit.

 

[Mike S]

So I was reading this book, "Children's letters to God" and one of the letters asked "God are you invisible or is that just a trick?" It got me thinking.... Obviously we can't see God but He's deffinitly here. That question blew my mind. I mean what physical evidence do we have for God? Yet we all KNOW He's right here. I don't know how to explain it....but it just got me thinking....any thoughts?

God exists outside time and space. We're not going to "see" Him. We will only understand Him through the various ways He interacts with the world. The most obvious interaction God has with our physical world is the life and ministry and death and resurrection of Jesus the Christ.

 

[DarkHorseRising]

So I was reading this book, "Children's letters to God" and one of the letters asked "God are you invisible or is that just a trick?" It got me thinking.... Obviously we can't see God but He's deffinitly here. That question blew my mind. I mean what physical evidence do we have for God? Yet we all KNOW He's right here. I don't know how to explain it....but it just got me thinking....any thoughts?

It is quite amazing, and although there are physical arguments and evidence of God, I'm always far more impressed and convinced through what He's done in my life.

 

[Jesusfreak97]

Hmm....well God is Father (????), Son (flesh) and Holy spirit (spirit) so he's three things... The Father part of the trinity is always going to be a mystery but the other two flesh and spirit.... Hmm....

 

[Jesusfreak97]

Also it makes me think that he's physically and spiritually here (cuz of what the little girl wrote).

 

[taikina]

i'd use a computer simulation as a metaphor: we are inside the computer, ran as events in a virtual space(meaning virtual for god, real for us as we are in it) and god controls it, manipulating it from the outside using laws of nature or from the inside with avatars like the son and the spirit.

 

[Mike S]

i'd use a computer simulation as a metaphor: we are inside the computer, ran as events in a virtual space(meaning virtual for god, real for us as we are in it) and god controls it, manipulating it from the outside using laws of nature or from the inside with avatars like the son and the spirit.

I like it.


I've also heard it discribed as being like an author and characters in his novel. Tom Sawyer lives in a world entirely created by Mark Twain, he knows nothing else. He has only a vague understanding of his creator...if he thinks about it at all.

 

[heymikey80]

It seems like a trick, but that's because we've grown up with the proof around us.

Physical reality, life, personhood, morality & ethics, thinking, there're too many things that exist around us for us to get away from some idea of God.

BTW -- there are some interesting thought experiments in there, too.

Morality & ethics aren't visible, really (neither is thinking). Only their effects on behavior (and sometimes they aren't) lead us to their existence. Do they exist, being invisible, or is it something about them that's not visible, just because of how they exist?

Personhood and life are both infamously hard to define in the first place. Do they exist?

There's a lot to think about.