We cannot find God by searching for him because we don’t know where to look or for what to look, but if God reveals himself to us, then we can know him according to that revelation. Humanity either concludes that God does not exist or it fabricates unverifiable notions about God, that is, unless the real God reveals himself, which is what God has done.
Scripture is God’s self-revelation.
There is so much in scripture that attests to Jesus being God and coming in flesh to make God known and to let people see God face to face.
The disciple named John spent a lot of time with Jesus, heard him, witnessed miracles, listened to him pray and in his personal testimony he wrote, "The Word was with God and was God" and "the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth," and, "No one has seen God at any time; the only begotten God, who is in the bosom of the Father, He has explained Him." (John 1:1-3;14;18).
On the night before His death, Jesus responded to Philip's request to "show us the Father and we will be satisfied," by saying, "Have I been so long with you, and yet you still have not come to know Me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the Father; how do you say, 'Show us the Father'? Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in Me?" (John 14:8-10).
The evidence is clear that Jesus is God and that he came in the flesh to show God to us. When he was here, Jesus proclaimed, "I and the Father are one" (John 10:30), by which he meant "of one essence or nature." Only "God" can be of the same nature as "God".
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