What the Bible says about God

What the Bible says about God

What the Bible says about God

• God is "Back"

• What it means to be a Theologian

• Can a Finite Human Beings Really Know An Infinite God

• Who God Reveals Himself To Be

• The Attributes of God

• God is Trinity

• Conclusion

4.1 God is "Back"

• Views of people in US, becoming more religious.

• Authoritative God

• Engaged and judgmental

• Caring father figure

• Angry and act on his anger

4.1 God is "Back"

• Benevolent

•  Engaged and Nonjudgmental

• Kind of all-powerful and ever-present life coach

4.1 God is "Back"

• Critical

• Disengaged and Judgemental

• God’s displeasure will be felt in another life, divine justice will not be meted out in this world

4.1 God is "Back"

• Distant

• Disengaged and Non-judgment.

• The cosmic force that set the laws of nature in motion

• Doesn’t do anything in the world or in the next

4.1 God is "Back"

• How people view God both affects and is affected by the way they live.

• We all have thoughts about who God is, and those thoughts affect our lives.

• All People could be considered a theologian because they have thoughts about God.

• We all have thoughts about who God is, and those thoughts affect our lives. 

4.1 God is "Back"

• How people view God is a reflection of how they view life. 

• Scripture is authoritative we need to see what the Bible reveals about God.

• Reveals himself to be

• His attributes

• His nature as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit

Multiple Choice

If God is engaged but nonjudgmental, he would be called ?

• Benevolent

• Critical

• Authoritative

• Distant

Multiple Choice

If God is engaged but judgmental, he would be called ?

• Benevolent

• Critical

• Authoritative

• Distant

Multiple Choice

If God is disengaged but nonjudgmental, he would be called ?

• Benevolent

• Critical

• Authoritative

• Distant

Multiple Choice

If God is disengaged but judgmental, he would be called ?

• Benevolent

• Critical

• Authoritative

• Distant

Multiple Choice

How we view God does not affect our lives

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

How we view God does not affect our lives

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

All people could be considered to be theologians because they have thoughts about God.

• True

• False

4.2 What it means to be a Theologian

• The best theology is a way of loving, knowing, and cherishing God.

• We should love God with all of our minds and hearts. 

  
  

• Matthew 22:37 - 37 And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.

  
  

  
  

4.2 What it means to be a Theologian

• Good theology is an act of worship, and of the very highest sort.

• Good theology reminds people of what is really true. 

• God’s story - incredibly good news

  Straightens what sin has bent Uncovers treasure of meaning that often goes buried and forgotten Assures us of love that we, fearing disappointment, dared not hope for.

  
  

  
  

4.2 What it means to be a Theologian

• God is really God, his goodness is really good, and his truth is really true.

• Properly understanding God can help us find

4.3 Can a Finite Human Beings Really Know An Infinite God

• Ability to understand God is limited, he is greater than our definitions

  
  

• Perfect being theology - Define God as that than which nothing greater can be conceived. maximum perfection

  
  

4.3 Infinite God

•  Believers fall into a trap that they don't know everything about God therefore they can't know anything about God.

•  Why we cannot know God exhaustively, we can know him truly.

•  See in our understandings, experiences, and God has revealed himself in creation scripture and through Jesus Christ.

4.3 Infinite God

• To know God truly:

  We must humble ourselves realize and we don't have the capacity to understand God exhaustively. 

• What we know about God pales in comparison to what he actually is 

• Romans 11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God exclamation How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 

4.3 Infinite God

• Deuteronomy 29:29 - “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things that are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law.

  
  

• Hebrews 1:1-2, is the way we truly know God, “Long ago, and many times and in many ways, God spoke to our fathers by the prophets, but I need last days he has spoken to us by his son who he appointed the heir of all things, through whom also he created the world. "

  
  

4.3 Infinite God

• Summary: 

  God reveals to us what we need to know enough to obey, understand, and everything we need to know. We need to take the time to know what he has revealed himself, what he as done, and how he wants to be known.

Multiple Choice

God is the greatest possible being of all time.

• Aseity

• Perfect being theology

• Self-existing

• Personal

Multiple Choice

God reveals himself both by what he does and who he is; he wants to be known.

• True

• False

4.4 Who God Reveals Himself To Be

• God is self-existent

• Everything depends on Him

• God is life, He is the source of life

• God has the power to cause everything else to exist and to sustain its existence.

• Outside of His creation

4.4 Who God Reveals Himself To Be

• God is spirit

• No material nature

• He is ultimate reality

• Reality is physical and spiritual.

4.4 Who God Reveals Himself To Be

• God is Personal

• Not a cosmic force

• Has a self consciousness and will

• He is engaged and relational.

• God made man in his image providing value and dignity.

Multiple Choice

God has a material nature.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

As a self-existent being, God isn't able to cause everything else to exist and or sustain its existence.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

God is the source of life, because he is life.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Aseity means:

• From oneself

• Cosmic force

• Pure Spirit

• All-powerful

Multiple Choice

To say that God is an individual being, with self consciousness and wil, capable of feeling, choosing, and having a reciprocal relationship means that God is

• Self-existent

• Spirit

• Personal

4.5 The Attributes of God

• Holy & Eternal

• All-knowing, All-powerful

• Everywhere present & Unchanging

• Righteous & Loving

• Merciful and Gracious

• Our only response: To worship God

Incommunicable attributes

• Qualities that belong only to God

• Holy

• Eternal

• Omniscient

• Ominpotent

• Omnipresent

• Unchanging

Communicable attributes

• Qualities that belong to God and human being shares

• Wisdom

• Righteousness

• Love

• Mercy

• Grace

4.6 God is Trinity

• One divine Being eternally exists as three distinct centers of consciousness, wholly equal in nature, personal relationships, mutually indwelling in the other.

4.6 God is Trinity

• Say What??????

• Three persons in one essence

• Essence: defining attributes that give an entity its fundamental identity.

4.6 God is Trinity

• Summary of the Trinity

• One and only one true and living God.

• One God eternally exists in three persons.

• The three persons are completely equal in attributes, each having the same divine nature.

• Each person is fully and completely God, but not identical.

4.6 God is Trinity

• Heresies about the Trinity

• Heresy: any belief that is contrary to orthodox Christian doctrine.

Modalism

The belief that the Trinity is composed of one God who has presented himself in different modes, or forms (the Father in the Old Testament, the Son in the New Testament, and the Holy Spirit today) throughout time.

Tritheism

Belief that the Trinity is composed of three separate and distinct Gods.

God is one essence.

Deuteronomy 6:4 “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one.

Isaiah 44:24 Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer,

who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who made all things,  who alone stretched out the heavens, who spread out the earth by myself,

Isaiah 45:5 I am the Lord, and there is no other, besides me there is no God; I equip you, though you do not know me,

God is one essence.

Ephesians 4:4-6 There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope that belongs to your call— one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

The Father is God

• 1 Corinthians 8:6 - yet for us there is one God, the Father, from whom are all things and for whom we exist, and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and through whom we exist.

• John 6:27 - Do not work for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For on him God the Father has set his seal.”

The Father is God

• John 17: 3 And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent

• 2 Peter 1:17 - For when he received honor and glory from God the Father, and the voice was borne to him by the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son,[a] with whom I am well pleased,”

Jesus is God

• Titus 2:13 - waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,

• Hebrews 1:3 He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,

Jesus is God

• Colossians 2:9 For in him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily,

• John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

• John 17:5 - Eternality, Matthew 9:4 Omniscience, Matthew 28:18-20 Omnipresence, He is God over all Romans 9:5

Holy Spirit is God

• Hebrews

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Holy Spirit is God

• 1 Corinthians 3:16 Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

• 1 Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

• Omnipresence Psalm 139:7, Omniscience 1 Corinthians 2:10-11, Omnipotence Job 33:4

Christianity rises and falls on the Trinity

• Trinity enables us to know God through Christ

• Atonement is possible: Blood of Christ through the Spirit so we can serve God

• Love becomes possible: the relationship among the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit show us what relationships should be.

• Unity becomes possible when we understand what harmony looks like.

Multiple Choice

The Trinity helps us to know God through Jesus Christ.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Belief that God is one God who shows himself in three modes throughout time.

• Tritheism

• Trinity

• Modalism

• Quarterbacking

Multiple Choice

God is three distinct Gods.

• Tritheism

• Trinity

• Modalism

• Quarterbacking

Multiple Choice

Defining attributes that give an entity its fundamental identity.

• Trinity

• Heresy

• Essence

• Christianity

Multiple Choice

Any belief that is contrary to orthodox Christian doctrine.

• Trinity

• Heresy

• Essence

• Christianity

Multiple Choice

The only proper response to a biblical understanding of God is...

• Trinity

• Athiesm

• Singing

• Worship