These names and titles and activities and metaphors reveal his character and outreach towards needy humans. Many tables and Scripture references are included.
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Category Archives: God
Does God Cause Natural Disasters to Punish People Today?
Hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, wildfires, earthquakes and tsunamis—natural disasters slam humankind every year. Did God do that? What does the Bible say? Two different covenants make all the difference—a progressive revelation.
God Is Your Redeemer
You did something you regret. You said something that you want to take back. Good news! You’re a prime candidate for God the Redeemer to deliver you out of your troubles and buy you out of your self-inflicted prison.
God Is Love
This study looks at this attribute of God from a personal point of view. It is relevant to your life.
What Does God Do from Heaven?
What do the Scriptures say? Fifteen major things, just a sample, of what he is doing right now.
The Wrath of God in the New Testament
It is never expressed against his New Covenant community (unless you get a speeding ticket).
The Wrath of God in the Old Testament
What’s with all the wrathin’ and a-smitin’ in the Old Testament? If grace teachers don’t explore this topic, some people may accuse them of hiding unpleasant truths and focusing on feel-good, sugarcoated doctrines alone.
Outline of John Hick’s Evil and God of Love
This short post covers the gist of his main points. He tries to provide an answer to this thorny question. Great for students in Phil. 101 and other interested readers.
3. What Does the Glory of God Mean to Us?
He shares it with us. It means everything to your life in Christ. Let is shine on you.
2. What Is the Glory of God in the New Testament?
It flows out of the Old Testament and expands its meaning to include the Son and the Spirit.
1. The Glory of God in the Old Testament
God shares this attribute with us, in manifesting his presence, even visibly sometimes. God’s glory can even include material prosperity. Don’t believe it?
Do I Really Know God? He Is Glorious
The Old Testament reality of God’s glory is carried forward into the New Testament. God communicates this attribute with us, in manifesting his presence, even visibly sometimes.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Beautiful
God’s attribute of beauty flows out of his goodness, glory and light, and shines on all of his creation and his highest creation—us.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Majestic
It is closely related to glory. He is great, splendid, triumphant, dignified, and awesome.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Perfect
We now begin the “Summary” attributes (perfection, blessedness, beauty, majesty, and glory), which means they complement and summarize and are comprehensive of the previous ones. They are capstones, so to speak.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Blessed
This attribute means God knows himself in all his absolute perfections and takes calm delight in who he is. He exists and lives in totally and absolutely perfect blessedness.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Sovereign and Free
No one tells him what to do or bosses him around or forces his hand. He is large and in charge. His will shall prevail in the end. How does human free will interact with this?
Do I Really Know God? He Is Jealous
If your child were under attack, what would you do? That (imperfect) surge of protection that you feel comes close to the biblical definition of (perfect) jealousy in God. It’s about his protection over you.
Do I Really Know God? He Shows Wrath
It is an unpleasant topic until we understand it. Then it makes sense. God wrath is judicial. Think of an old English judge who wears a white wig.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Righteous and Just
This is one of God’s moral attributes or perfections, and it is communicable to us because we are made in the image of God and because he graces us with the capacity to do them, though imperfectly. We’re humans, after all.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Holy
This word is scary for some and delightful for others. Where do you stand?
Do I Really Know God? He Is the God of Peace
We can see peace in the larger society and inner peace for each individual. We must receive it by faith in Christ.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Patient
Without it, we would be doomed because we would get what we deserved—quickly.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Gracious
Gracious literally means “full of grace.” God cannot stop being gracious and showing us favor. It is in his very nature and being.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Love
“God is love” (1 John 4:6, 16). But what does that mean? What does it look like?
Do I Really Know God? He Is Compassionate and Merciful
He takes pity on you to deliver you or set you free. Only Jesus demonstrated the verb “to show compassion.”
Do I Really Know God? He Is Good
He is good all the time and can never stop being good. It is in his very being. No matter your circumstances, he is still good. In Scripture, goodness is both moral and material—good things.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Truth
This means that God’s words are true, he is faithful, his character is trustworthy, and his promises will be fulfilled.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Wise
Since God is infinite and wise, he is infinitely wise. We can trust him to see us through difficult and confusing times.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Invisible
Some biblical verses say God cannot be seen, but other verses seem to say he can be seen. How can we reconcile them?
Do I Really Know God? He Is Spirit
This means he is immaterial or nonphysical.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Omnipotent
This means he is all powerful and sovereign. He is able to do everything according to his holy will and whatever is not a moral or essential contradiction.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Everywhere
This is known as his omnipresence. There is no place in the universe where he is not there—he is in every corner.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Omniscient
It means he is “all-knowing.” He absolutely and totally and exhaustively knows himself, his creation, and you.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Infinite and Personal
God is greater than the universe. He is limitless and boundless. But he chooses to relate to us anyway. He is personal.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Eternal
This attribute is important to us because it puts things in the right perspective. For God it’s the long game.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Simple
This means he is uncompounded and noncomposite and without moving parts. He does not gain or lose an attribute, nor is an attribute attached to him from the outside. It means God’s perfect unity.
Do I Really Know God? He Is Unchanging and Consistent
We can build our lives on this great attribute of God—his stability and constancy. But wait. Does God change who he is when we pray?
Do I Really Know God? He Is Self-Existent
On a personal level, it means he does not need us, but we need him—desperately, even when we don’t realize it.
What a Divine Attribute Is
An attribute is also called a perfection. in some contexts. It is amazing. God can never improve or get worse. He is who he is, period.
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