If God cannot be seen, it is not because God is invisible, but because God hides himself or because “no one can see God and live.” The possibility of seeing God always remains; but it is qualified in numerous ways, due, perhaps, to the character and nature of God, to the virtue or status of the particular individual, or to the variety of ways in which “seeing” can be understood.
Marianne Meye Thompson, “Jesus: ‘The one Who Sees God’,”
in Israel’s God and Rebecca’s Children: Christology and Community in Early
Judaism and Christianity: Essays in Honour of Larry W. Hurtado and Alan F.
Segal, eds. David B. Capes, April D. DeConick, Helen K. Bond, and Troy A.
Miller (Waco: Baylor University Press, 2007), 215-26, here, p. 221.
