Q. New Covenant Christians say that God is invisible only to mortals and sinners unless God veils His glory. But doesn't Paul say that no-one can ever see God (1 Tim.6:16)?

The only way this passage can be harmonised with all the other passages on God's visibility or invisibility is either by saying that (a) God can never be 100% revealed to mankind, or (b) God can never be fully known by man, as to the Hebrew 'seeing' was not just a facility of the eye but of the brain.

This really is in the realm of speculation -- nothing absolute can be said about it. All we can say is what the Scriptures have revealed: namely, that God is visible or invisible at certain times, to certain people, under certain conditions. Both propositions -- God is invisible, and God is invisible -- are true. We will simply have to leave the matter at that, I'm afraid.

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