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God is invisible and spiritual

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The power of invisibility is cool if you are a superhero, but it can have some disadvantages if you are a supreme being. For example, skeptics assert that God does not exist because we cannot see Him. But the fact of God’s invisibility does not limit His ability to make Himself known, nor does it inhibit His power to reveal His strength and His presence. The Bible describes God as invisible with statements such as: “No one has ever seen God” (John 1:18) and “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever” (1 Timothy 1:17). Because humans don’t have much experience with invisibility, we tend to think that anything we can’t see doesn’t have much substance. After all, our thoughts are invisible, but they vanish at the slightest distraction, perhaps never to be recaptured. But being invisible doesn’t imply that God is a wispy, ethereal essence without substance. Like a violent wind, you might not see Him approaching, but He can make Hi