GOD
The beginning, the now & the end.
“Who is God?” Throughout history and across civilizations, people have contemplated this issue..
Although we still don't know everything there is to know about God, there are a few things we do know about God's existence and character.
God is the one who created us.
This is the start of the story. God formed all, including light, earth, water, air, plants, animals, and humans, according to Genesis, the first book of the Bible.
God made the whole universe out of nothing, and he called anything he made "good." God saved the best for last: he created man and woman in his own image on the last day of life.
All and everything was made to be great in the beginning. It was all made to represent God's majesty. This continues to be the case. God's beauty is yet to be seen in all of creation.
Is God Real?
Is God a product of man's mind? Isn't it reassuring to know that there is someone who can assist us in our time of need? Is God, on the other hand, something more?
Is it true that God made man in His image, or is it the other way around? What are your thoughts on this issue?
Have you unquestioningly, if not carelessly, embraced what others have told you without questioning it? If that's the case, think carefully about who or what God is, because the consequences for your existence are enormous.
In the world today, millions of people hold to the beliefs and conclusions of materialism and humanism. According to these ideas, physical matter—and the laws of physics and chemistry that act on matter—are everything.
Bible Quote
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth—all you see, all you don’t see.
Genesis 1:1
Who is God?
God is Unchanging.
All changes in our environment, and the rate of change seems to be increasing all the time.
When people struggle to retain a sense of stability in the midst of all the transitions, this creates a lot of tension and anxiety.
This is why it's so important to believe that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. In a world where life can be complex and uncertain, it serves as an anchor and a source of hope.
It is the solid ground on which we can stand while everything around us seems to be crumbling.
God is Faithful.
God's promises are abundant in the Bible: for people, for the ancient nation of Israel, and for us. Many times in the Old Testament, God's people are defined as turning away from Him and seeking other gods or desires.
God stayed true throughout it all, drawing them away from their worship of false gods and convincing them of God's own love and devotion.
The same can be said of us today. God is still faithful to us, even though we fail to keep our promises to Him. And when we make a mistake, God will never abandon us or stop loving us.
God is knowable.
God does not want to be distant or concealed from us, but rather wants to know us personally.
Reading and learning the Bible, also known as the Holy Scriptures, will help us learn more about God.
The Bible narrates the story of God, who created the world, everything in it, and proclaimed it good.
It's the tale of a God who longs for a close bond with us. It is the tale of a God who has changed and guided the existence of people for decades.
God is Love
God is first and foremost love. God's actions in the Bible, including delivering Jesus, God's only child, to earth to live and die, paving the way for us to be reconciled to God.
God Is Bigger Than All This.
We can learn about God by reading the Bible, following Jesus Christ, and listening to the Holy Spirit, but we can't contain or box God.
Even when things occur that we don't understand or can't justify, we trust in God's redemptive intent in all things, believing that God is good, that God loves us, and that God's grace is the source of our eternal salvation.
Bible Quote
I know the plans I have in mind for you, declares the Lord; they are plans for peace, not disaster, to give you a future filled with hope.
Jeremiah 29:11
What Does It All Mean?
All-powerful is the concept of omnipotence. Monotheistic theologians believe that God is supremely strong. This means that God is free to do whatever he wishes. It means he is not bound by the same physical constraints as a man. God is omnipotent, so he has control over the wind, water, gravity, science, and so on. God's force is eternal, or infinite.
All-knowing is the concept of omniscience. In the sense that he is mindful of the past, present, and future, God is all-knowing. Nothing catches him off guard. He has complete expertise. He knows what there is to know and everything there is to know.
All-present refers to omnipresence. This word refers to God's ability to exist in many places at the same time. It means that his divine nature pervades the whole universe. There isn't a single place on the planet where he doesn't exist.
This is not to be confused with pantheism, which implies that God is one with the world; rather, omnipresence implies that God is separate from the universe but resides in it. At the same time, he is everywhere.
Something Cannot Come From Nothing
Atheists and sceptics often argue that if something has a cause, then God must have one as well. The inference is that God is not God if he needs a reason (and if God is not God, then, of course, there is no God).
This is a slightly more advanced version of the fundamental question, "Who created God?"It is common knowledge that something does not come from nothing . If So, if God is a "something," He must have a reason for being, right?
The query is tricky since it introduces the mistaken belief that God came from somewhere before asking where that might be. The response is that the question is incomprehensible. It's akin to saying, "How does blue smell?"The question is unfounded since blue doesn't at all belong in the category of odor-producing substances.
Similarly, God does not belong in the category of made or induced objects. God is both uncaused and uncreated—He just exists.
What evidence do we have for this? We all know that nothing comes from nothing. So, if there was ever a moment when there was nothing, then nothing would have ever existed. However, things do happen.
As a result, because there could never be completely nothing, something had to exist at all times. God is the name we give to the ever-existing thing. God is the uncaused Being who is responsible for the creation of all else. God is the uncreated Creator who brought the world and everything in it into being.
God is known by many names.
Yahweh ~ LORD ~ Abba ~ Jehovah ~ El Shaddai ~ El Elyon ~ El Olam ~ Elohim ~ El Roi ~ Yahweh Shalom and many more!
or you can simply call Him, Father.
What is The Holy Trinity?
The Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit are referred to as the Trinity. The following is a description of the Trinity:
God is one in being, but he manifests himself in three different ways.
A BEING is the quality or essence that defines you as "what" you are, while a PERSON is the quality or essence that defines you as "who you are."
Humans are one being with one being, while God is one being with three people: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
The term Trinity is made up of the words Tri and Unity, with Tri referring to three and Unity referring to one. What this indicates is that the Character of God is one, but the three persons are distinct. When the Bible says there is only one God, it means exactly what it says.
It also shows that this God has three distinct personalities in His dynamic existence, which are historically referred to as the Godhead's three persons. While each member of the Godhead is distinctive from the others, they never act alone.
The Father and the Son are not the same person; the Son and the Holy Spirit are not the same person; and the Holy Spirit is not the same person as the Father. They are distinct individuals, but they are all one, God. They are in complete harmony and are made up of just one material. Coeternal, coequal, and copowerful.
There will be no God if either of the three were taken away. However, there appears to be some division of roles among the Godhead's representatives. The Father, for example, decides who will be saved (Ephesians 1:4), the Son redeems them (Ephesians 1:7), and the Holy Spirit seals them (Eph. 1:13).
Why Does Allow Suffering?
Return with me to the Garden of Eden in Genesis. It says we started in the Garden of Eden. It was great in every way. With the lambs, lions slept under the shade of trees. The wind sang praises to God in gentle breezes of climactic perfection, while the trees created savoury fruits.
But do you realise what made it even better? Each day, Adam and Eve walked in relationship with God. There was no death, depression, illness, or divorce in this garden. It was the epitome of bliss. So, what went wrong? How could he let death and illness take their toll?
Why did God, if he is a good God, allow evil to enter the world? He didn't do it. It was Adam and Eve who did it. According to the Bible, Satan is the creator of sin.
We have afflictions, like death, because of sin. Man's rebellion against God is the source of all of our troubles and misery, including death.
Their eyes were opened as they sinned, and they were mindful of both the good and the poor. Yes, God may have killed the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in order to avoid mankind's fall, but that would have ruined the whole tale.
It would deprive us of the ability to feel hopeful. It would dull our minds, preventing us from dreaming of better days ahead.
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The process of obtaining salvation is very simple. For anyone to be saved, he or she must confess Jesus Christ as Lord through faith.
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