Believe in a God nobody can see? Isn't that just imagination?

🔥A child asks: “Nobody has ever seen him, so how can anyone know God is there?”

🛡️The answer: “If you can't see it, it isn't there” may hold for objects that ought to be visible in the first place, but it does not apply to everything. Thoughts, love, and gravity are invisible, and we come to know them by looking at what they do. God does not have a body, so God is not the sort of thing a telescope could turn up.

Of course, “some real things are invisible” does not by itself get you to the conclusion that God exists. Catholic faith asks a whole set of questions together: why does the world exist, why does nature have an order the human mind can understand, why do human beings feel bound to seek truth and goodness, and what does the historical testimony about Jesus actually say?

🎨An analogy — wind and leaves

You never see the wind itself, yet you know it from the leaves shaking and from measured movements of air. That does not mean God can be measured the way wind can. This analogy shows only that “invisible” is not enough, on its own, to conclude “nonexistent.”

✨Briefly: “Invisible isn't the same as nonexistent. God isn't an object but the source of everything that exists, so what we look at are the traces he leaves.”