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The Bible says God is invisible. Doesn that refute the LDS position?

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The Bible says God is invisible. Doesn that refute the LDS position?

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Things are invisible when they can’t be seen, but that doesn’t mean they have no form or body or could not ever be seen. Romans 1:20, for example speaks of “invisible things of him from the creation of the world” that are “clearly seen.” The Greek word for invisible, aoratos, can simply mean “unseen” without necessarily describing the permanent physical nature of something. With rare exceptions, God the Father remains unseen and invisible, not appearing to man. Appearance before men is generally done by the Son (a few examples of men seeing God are given in Exodus 24:9-11 and 33:11; Num. 12:8; Deut. 34:10; and Acts 7:55,56, though only the last reference necessarily involves the Father). Though the Father almost always remains unseen to men, He still has a form. In fact, He looks like His Son, who is in the image of the Father. Colossians 1:15, for example, teaches that Christ “is the IMAGE of the INVISIBLE God, the firstborn of every creature.” And Hebrews 1:3 teaches that Christ is “

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