THE PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERSTANDING OF INVISIBILITY OF GOD: A SURVEY OF A MISUNDERSTOOD PHENOMENON

The Old and New Testaments appear to offer contradictory evidence as to whether God can be seen. The usual resolution is to defend the New Testament statements that God is invisible, and to somehow accommodate the Old Testament passages. This article brings together Sometimes-overlooked data to suggest that such an approach is unhelpful. We do better to allow the Old Testament statements that God can be seen, and to reconsider what the New Testament passages are trying to claim.