The unseen God declaredJohn 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
No one has seen God in His invisible Spirit essence; the Son makes Him known.
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Jesus Is the Image of God
See how Jesus makes the invisible God visible without reducing Him to a created copy.
What this path establishes
Jesus is the visible, personal revelation of the invisible God because God’s fullness dwells bodily in Him.
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- 2The Father seen in JesusJohn 14:9
Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Jesus answers the desire to see the Father by identifying Himself as the Father’s visible revelation.
- 3Indwelling explains the imageJohn 14:10
Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.
Jesus is not an external portrait. The Father dwells and acts in Him.
- 4Image of the invisible GodColossians 1:15
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:
Christ gives visible and personal expression to the God who is invisible.
- 5Fullness dwellingColossians 1:19
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fulness dwell;
The image is complete because all divine fullness dwells in Christ.
- 6Bodily fullnessColossians 2:9
For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
God’s fullness is present bodily, preserving both deity and genuine incarnation.
- 7Exact expressionHebrews 1:3
Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and exact expression of His being.
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The invisible God is seen in Jesus because Jesus is His true incarnate image, filled with all divine fullness and expressing God’s own being.