Image of the Invisible God

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Christ is never said to be the likeness of the invisible God, because it might imply that He was not really God. This would be fatally false, for He is God (and without it God's glory and redemption are vain), but yet He is the image of the invisible God, because He is the only Person of the Godhead that has declared Him (see John 1:1818No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. (John 1:18)). The Holy Spirit does not manifest God. He does manifest His power, but not Himself, but Christ is "the image of the invisible God." He has presented God in full perfection; He is the truth objectively. He who has seen Him has seen the Father. He was always the Word, the One who made God manifest. [14]