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MANY PEOPLE..
tired of the culture of self, are looking for something better, something more satisfying. They want to know God. Primarily, because man's ideas about evolution's "Dead stuff brought life" nonsense, leaves them cold!Great fortune, God also wants us to know Him! It is for that very reason, that He has revealed so much of Himself in many ways, the most important of which is the His Word the Holy Bible!.
Note: Any Bible, any serious Bible student can use it to show us the whole plan of Salvation and what we each must do to gain it and Eternal life. However, for most of us, that seldom, if ever, really study it, may I recommend a King James Revised edition, NO not the New, nor any other, such as NIV, [Not Inspired Version} as it leaves out far too information about Jesus and His role in this!} A KJV Study Bible, with reference column, showing this word, thought or phrase, in other locations "Chin of Evidence", and a good large Bible Concordance, Strong's or Green's., as each has all the words in both Hebrew and Greek for the original meanings, but for the one to three letter words, a and it the etc. Plus note: No commentary is inspired by God, it's human opinion only!
Neither the Bible writers, nor The Author, made no direct effort to prove the existence of God. They all took that much for granted.
Note: Cosmologist and Physicists, and others with $100.00 Titles, now say the "Big Bang" initial material came from nothing! Well excuse me, but getting something from nothing is in the realm of the Divine Persons, is it not? Look....
Genesis 1:1-2 " In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
Note: Many a person, holds that there's a huge gap of time between verse one and two! However, no man was an eyewitness to this event, PLUS we are not given any hint, that there is a time span between the two verses! They base this on the fact, there are many time frames within the Bible, that are blank, they argue! SO WHAT? The Bible, is NOT, not holds itself to be, a moment by moment running commentary, now does it? If it did, we could use all the editions to build a stairway to the Moon and beyond! Can you only imagine. a history book listing all human events, from day one to now?
However, Genesis 1, speaks volumes about Him. Before the world was created, God existed! He's the Creator, The Source of life and every material blessing! [One that does NOT exist, cannot created agree?]
WHAT WE CANNOT KNOW:
Nevertheless, there's much about God's basic nature we don't understand because He hasn't revealed it to us. Among these unknowns are God's Eternal nature and His capacity to be everywhere at once. We can never understand the essence of God's nature. [(jb) NOTE: if we could we'd.be as God, and that 's never going to happen!] But we can understand that which He has revealed to us, in His word! At least to the point that He has revealed centers around His unfailing love for each one of us!The New Testament presents God to us as a loving heavenly Father...
Matthew 5:45 "That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."
1 John 4:8 "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
Note: Can 1Jn 4:8 be a reason for men such as Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and the Castro brothers? Each only able to love their won aggrandizement?
Because Jesus adopted us all we have become.....
John 1:12-13 "But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.
Note (JB) very few "Christians", act as a child of God! Is this the reason for this next verse?...
Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."
Yet ALL who search earnestly shall find it! Jesus will guide anyone, who seeks Him!
Jesus told the woman at the well of Sychar that ...John 4:23-24 " But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
Does this suggest that God has a form, a shape? This statement has more to do with some more profound aspects of God's Divine Nature. He is far above nature and beyond the capacity of the human mind to imagine Him. He lives on a plane far superior to ours. Yet......
Genesis 1:26-27 "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
If YOU dear reader have followed all in this series of "We Believe" [The Trinity] in the previous blog, find the Godhead and tie that into the above passage, and know their form must be as we are in form!
GOD IS A PERSON.
The Hebrew concept of spirit was more concrete than abstract. God dwells in that re3alm. We can not see Him, but we are made in His image [see Gen 1: 26-27 above] which suggests strongly, that HE and the the other Two Members of the Godhead, each have a specific form. Throughout its pages, the Bible presents God as a Person. Either as the pronoun He, or a definitive, "The," Father.
The words chosen top describe God, makes it easy as possible for us to understand God as a Person. He "talks", "hears", "sees", and "Writes".. He suffers and feels sadness, and He expresses both anger and joy.and He as we, have a free-will.
Psalms 40:8 " I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart."
2 Corinthians 1:1 "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia:"
God Judges: Psalms 7:11 "God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day"
Romans 2:16 "In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel."
And Pardons: Isaiah 55:7 "Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon".
Nevertheless, He is above all. He created and sustains everything... Hebrews 1:1-3 "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;"
God is Omnipotent: Revelation 19:6 "And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, a,d as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth."
He is Sublime: Isaiah 57:15 " For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones"
OMNISCIENT: Ephesians 1:8 "Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence;"
ETERNAL & IMMORTAL : 1 Timothy 1:17 "Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen."
Note: Contrary to common teaching, there nothing immortal about mankind, Gen. 2:7, man became a living soul, thus a soul is a living body, not an add on feature, that is immortal, that's Paganism!
Plus Omnipresent: Psalms 139:7 "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?" Jeremiah 23:24 "Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD"
God is free of time and space limitations in all His actions.
Everything that happens o n our planet is under god's control, even Satan, the destroyer with his winds, floods and earthquakes, is allowed only to do as God allows! {Is it to get our attention? Just as this economic downturn, what better way to get our attention than to kick this money hungry nation is their collective wallets?
Yet, He understands our plans, but e acts in ways to insure the ultimate fulfillment and consummation of His will, within us.
The qualities and powers that we see in God the Son and God thew Holy Spirit also reveal to us what the The Father is like.
For further study: Exodus 34:6-7. Exodus 16. Revelation 4:11 John 13:16; 14:9. 1 Corinthians 15:28.
Thanking you for your time.
Questions? Comments? John at WWW.servant@frontier.com
Need more? Visit your Seventh day Adventist Church, any Saturday/Sabbath at 9-10AM. You will find the Peace of Mind the world can only wonder about.
Other sites" www.AFTV.org. www.BLBN.org www.amazingdiscoveries.org. www.itiswritten.com
John B.
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