CAN WE SEE GOD?
Our reluctance to believe in the unseen God, results from our poor knowledge of creation.
In Genesis 2: 7 we read: “The Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.”
This of course meant that human being by creation is both flesh and spirit and also, from a functional standpoint that every functional part of our body from the top of our head to the bottom of our feet, has at the same time inherited a double existence: An existence in the flesh and an existence in the spirit, with absolutely the same functional faculties in spirit as in the flesh.
Whatever our brains, eyes, mouth, ears, hands, feet, heart, lungs, pancreas, intestines, sex etc. can perform in the flesh, they can perform in the spirit.
Our ability in the flesh and apparent inability in the spirit come from our misunderstanding of creation.
By creation, God has given us full authority over all of his earthly creation including our physical being. But he did not entrust us with free access to our spiritual functions, because, this part of his creation, is not of the earth and does not belong to the earth, but is of the immortal substance of God himself and belongs to him alone.
God claims absolute authority over the spiritual, our immaterial human nature and transcend over all of his material earthly creation including our physical existence..
Access to our spiritual being, is only possible through our constant appeal in prayer to the glory of God, whether directly or through his unique Son Jesus Christ.
By creation, God’s plan is for us is to feed our spiritual being with spiritual food that only he can produce and that we must appeal to him at the very least at the same daily tempo we are obliged to feed our physical body with earthly food out of necessity to assure our physical life.
By creation we were handed a physical life on one side and a spiritual life on the other side and God’s purpose is for us to sustain both and to observe a just balance.
Spiritual healing is less a miracle for those of us knowledgeable of this truth. Our overall health resides in our ability to obtain the most perfect as possible, balance between the physical and the spiritual.
The reason why some of us are reluctant to believe in the unseen God is that we only focus and train ourselves to the use of our eyes of the flesh and ignore completely that God has also equipped us with eyes of the spirit.
With the eyes of the spirit, we can see God in his power and glory, we see God through his creation, we see God through his spiritual and physical light that shines upon us, we see God through his dependable supreme justice, we see God through his infinite love, we see God through his omnipresence within us in hard times and in good times.
With the eyes of the spirit, we see God in our human nature to always give priority to the good over evil. We see God through the purity of our subconscious, reflection of his omnipresence within us.
We see God in our human nature to love others, in our intelligence, in our faculty to reason, in our knowledge and wisdom, our faculty to distinguish good from evil and natural inclination towards good, our natural tendency to seek and to attach to the truth, to the ideal and to the absolute, in our peace of mind and unchanging smile in good times or in hard times, In whole, we see God in the happy, joyful, contented aura that covers our way of life in all seasons.
God is infinite but we are finite being, in flesh surely, in spirit we are on probation during our entire life on earth. God is giver of eternal life but it is not granted it is an acquired merit.
God requires our desire for spiritual renewal likely our constant desire for physical renewal.
Outwardly, in innocent appearance or by conscious will, we may ignore God’s presence within us. But his breath, spiritual substance instilled into us by creation, was a gift, and God as eternal cannot take back what he had given. Whatever God does is to remain for eternity.
That said, no human being can escape God’s presence within us, it is an integral part of our nature. For this reason we ought to always seek a perfect coexistence between our conscious state and our inner subconscious and by so doing assure our happiness.
When conscious state enter into conflict with the subconscious, the predominance of the later causes unhappiness and even mental illness.
This presence of God within us in spite of our ignorance of him, is also noted by the apostle Paul in his addresses to the ‘Men of Athens’, we quote in Acts 17: 23: “For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown, I am going to proclaim to you.”
Often we find atheists, in spite of not believing in God, yet involved in godly duties such as love for others, promoting progress and the advancement of humanity, or engaged in voluntary service or in humanitarian organization/aid, etc.
None can honestly deny the supernatural and mystery aura that covers the natural and perfect order of the self-organized universe or restrain from the question of our purpose of human existence on earth, a planet amongst many others.
In spite of all that has been demonstrated spiritually-wise on how can we see God, our physical nature yet remains unsatisfied because seeing God through our spiritual eyes only convinces us of his existence when the true question is: Why can’t we see God in real eye to eye?
The second question that comes to mind, even of the believer, is that since the duality of our human existence in flesh and in spirit is the sole hindrance to our liability to see God eye to eye, then what happens when we pass on from this earthy life and become spirit likely God that is spirit?
CHRISTIAN CHURCH BELIEF IN THE UNSEEN GOD
Christians in general never question the unseen nature of God. God is visualized in the person of his only Son Jesus Christ and Christian’s duty is to proclaim his infinite love for the world.
God has revealed himself to us in the person of Jesus Christ, in the form known in terms of the Holy trinity: God the father, God the Son, God the Holy Ghost.
We have tangible proof of the existence of God’s prophets, most of whom were persecuted and even executed for having prophesied the coming of Jesus Christ as King of Kings, and this long time before accomplishment. Secondly, Jesus Christ during his earthly mission has left indelible marks confirming truth and certitude.
When one seriously analyzes the lessons from Jesus Christ, his recommendations and examples to mankind during his journey here on earth, only one thing we can honestly acknowledge: If it should be an invented legend, it was a vital necessity for the well-being of humanity and it has all the merits to have been invented.
A great philosopher once testified in theses terms: “If God did not exist, we would have had to invent him.”
We may also agree with the famous bet laid by a certain philosopher by the name of Blaise Pascal: “If God exists and I was a believer, I have won everything. If God does not exist and I was a believer, I have lost nothing”
We can never see God in this earthly life with eye of the flesh, but with the eyes of the spirit, we are equipped to recognize, to approach and to value all that God represents: He is the architect and organizer of the universe, he is the ruler of Heaven and earth, he is Lord of the visible and the invisible, he is spiritual, immortal, divine, perfect, just, he is eternal and giver of eternal life, he is light, he is the word, he is the Almighty, he is infinite and eternal, he is omnipotent and omnipresent, as he said through his Son Jesus Christ: “I am the Alpha and the Omega, who is, who was and who is to come….”
To believe or not to believe, that’s the question.
By human nature, believers and non-believers, desire is to accede to the absolute truth. Fortunately or unfortunately, the absolute can only be found in the God believers glorify. In this hypothesis, believers and non-believers may be divergent in the form of their pursuit, actions or deeds, but basically, by the predominance of their common human nature, at the end of the day, they often end up in the same earthly melting pot of godly duties.
Unfortunately, by the word of God, only those that exercise their duty within God’s spirit, will inherit eternal life.
THE HEBREWS PROOF OF GOD:
The Hebrews believed in a unique God, that is: almighty, spiritual, transcendent, creator and supreme organizer of the universe. But contrary to the prophesies on the coming of the unique Son of God, in the person of Jesus Christ, if I’m not mistaken, they reduced the prophesy to their belief in reincarnation of the soul of man.
For the Hebrews, supposed to be God’s chosen Nation, the prophecy was simply the coming back of a deceased prophet, and Jesus was to be assimilated with other prophets.
We know what followed. Jesus declaring: “ I come unto my own, and my own received me not.”
However, Hebrews as God chosen Nation, have tangible proof of communication with God, directly or through God’s Angels. We may refer to God’s many manifestations in voice or in signs to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, but none of these has ever related of having a visible eye to eye contact with God.
ANCIENT EMPIRES PROOF OF GOD: Egypt, Japan, Peru,
Ancient empires were also convinced on the existence of a unique God, invisible, supernatural, immaterial, All-Powerful, a celestial governor of the universe and all things there within, including mankind.
But instead of questioning their inability to see God, they opted to credit to the Sun all the qualities recognized in God. Without the Sun no life on earth can be possible. The Sun was honored as the fertilizer of life, of fruitfulness, of joy and of happiness on earth
This led them to confound the almightiness of God with the mystic they observed in the Sun. This was the case of many ancient empires or Kingdom dynasties, to name: Egypt, Japan. Peru. Were also associated to this concept, the Pharaohs, Monarchs or supreme pontiffs known in ancient Egypt.
They practiced as religion, the cult of the Sun. To illustrate their belief they compared the Sun to a mirror. The people were considered children of the celestial, under the protection of the Sun and their Monarchs were called: “Sons of the Sun”
The Sun was taken as a living incarnation of the mystery and miracles governing the universe, the triumphal divinity, conqueror over the force of inertia and sterility inherent in chaos.
They considered every day to be a necessary eternal rebirth of the Sun, after a long stay in darkness, as to renew its divine energy.
The Sun was worshiped as the father in the realm of the celestial powers, the mother of all civilization, the center of the universe and governor of all things visible and invisible.
This ancient legend of the Sun was to be strengthened by modern science conformation of ancient belief in the heliocentric system, claiming all planets of our immediate universe, including the earth to be originated from detached particles from the Sun.
Added to their belief in the divinity of the Sun, they illustrated the Sun with the contrast between the front and the back of a mirror. Likely the back of a mirror, behind the visible brilliant face of the Sun, resides the invisible face, purposely dissimulated from the eyes of Man.
The hidden face of the Sun is described as an immense and terrible blaze, infinitely huge and more brilliant than the visible face. This side of the Sun is unapproachable by any living creature. They called it the unseen sun or the spiritual fire.
Their belief was, that after our earthly death we systematically pass on to this hidden face of the Sun, called the “Sun of the Dead”. They claim the “Sun of the dead” to be the guide that will lead our soul after physical death, towards the transcendent Spirit where we will accede to the mystery of supreme knowledge.
In 1 Timothy 6, 15-16 we read: “…God the blessed and the only ruler, the king of kings, Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see, to him be honor and might forever.”
Is there a link?
BELIEF OF EARLIER ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
More ancient civilizations put their belief not in the existence of one God, but from their belief in earthly spirits, they believed that certain souls are deified by death.
Deified souls were therefore personalized into divinities or gods. Each god or divinity was determined as to corresponded to a specific natural but contingent need. We find a pluralism of gods, each corresponding to a specific aspect of life.
SUMMARY:
CAN WE SEE GOD WITH EYES OF THE FLESH?
We can give an absolute NO to this question.
CAN WE SEE GOD WITH OUR EYES OF THE SPIRIT?
Witnesses of God omnipresence and omnipotent in all aspects of their life, can give an absolute YES to this question.
CAN WE SEE GOD EYE TO EYE IN OUR LIFE AFTER DEATH?
No mortal can answer to this question with absolute certainty. It is nevertheless the hope of believers. Hope through belief in Jesus Christ. Should we live a godly life in the spirit of God, seek perfection in the carrying out of Jesus Christ recommendations, we can reckon on a place in God’s house, eye to eye in spirit..
CONCLUSION:
When analyzing closely all religious belief, whether the belief of Christians or religions that choose to worship the Sun and other symbols taken as incarnation of divinities or other worshiping of a plurality of gods, at the bottom line we find that all agree on the existence of a general supernatural and omnipotent force, that regulates the universe and all there in.
Liberty to identify God belongs to every individual. My personal testimony is that those of us that have identified the hands of the almighty God in all that concern our life and the world, and to give him glory have a happy existence by the assurance that we are in harmony with the absolute truth.
Those reluctant to accept the existence of a living and Almighty God, appears to be very unhappy because unconsciously, they are reduced to permanent and unsuccessful searcher for truth.
Desire for the absolute truth is instilled in our human nature, likely a gift from God, no one can escape that desire, trying to reach what surpasses human knowledge, reduces us deep down inside to unfulfilled and unhappy feelings.
Written by Leopold Baly,
