No One Can See God at Any Time: Daily Devo, John 1:14-18

The Word, Jesus, became flesh. I don’t understand this to mean that the divine transformed into flesh but rather assumed human flesh, such that the human flesh and nature was added to the divine nature without losing the divine nature in any degree or respect. In this incarnation, we were finally able to behold God—full of grace and truth. When we think about the incarnation in terms of visibility, we must realize that, because of the transcendent nature of the divine, incarnation is necessary if anyone is going to know God. Biblical Christianity is the only worldview that provides an incarnation such that there is no incoherence or non-correspondence. 

John the Baptizer pointed to Jesus and testified that he was truly God the Word, now the begotten Son of the Father. In Christ Jesus, God gave us His fullness by grace because He wanted to. If God gave His fullness to us in Christ, there is no more revelation. The canon of Scripture is closed after Jesus was written about and His church established. That is why we don’t believe there are any new prophets, priests, incarnations, mahdi’s or otherwise since Jesus. If God gave the fullness  of Himself already, He has nothing more to give because there is nothing more to be given.

No one has seen God because He is transcendent. We did see His incarnation. In His incarnation He is fully revealed. Moses gave the Law. By the Law, people could exercise their faith in obedience—knowing about their hope without having seen God. In Christ, now by grace and truth, God has been clearly seen in His fullness, and we can experience Him personally.

This is the Gospel; By our will and work, we cannot get to God. He is transcendent and beyond our reach. But, God came to us.

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we saw His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth. John testified about Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me has a higher rank than I, for He existed before me.’ ” For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace. For the Law was given through Moses; grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ. 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 1:14-18).