Who Is God
(gnmagazine)
How Is God One
Is God a Trinity
Who was Jesus of
Nazareth
Was He a mere man, or much more? What was the
significance
of His death and resurrection? In this booklet
you'll
learn
more about the nature of God and Jesus Christ and
our
future
destiny with Them as revealed in the Bible.
One of the fundamental questions of the Hebrew
religion
is,
Who is really God?'? Helmer Ringgreen, Theological
Dictionary of the Old Testament
Most people have their own distinctive opinions of a
Supreme
Being. But where do these impressions come from?
Many
are
simply reflections of how people perceive God. As a
consequence the word God has come to embody a
spectrum
of
meanings, many of them quite foreign to the Bible.
How does the Creator reveal Himself to man?
The principal way is through His Word. The Bible is
a
book
about God and His relationship with human beings.
The
Scriptures contain a long history of God's
revelation of
Himself to man?from Adam to Moses down through the
apostles
and the early Church.
In contrast to many human assumptions, the Bible
communicates a true picture of God. This remarkable
book
reveals what He is like, what He has done and what
He
expects of us. It tells us why we are here and
reveals
His
little-understood plan for His creation. This
handbook
of
basic knowledge is fundamentally different from any
other
source of information. It is genuinely unique
because it
contains, in many ways, the very signature of the
Almighty.
The Creator tells us in His Word: . . . I am God,
and
there
is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me,
declaring
the end from the beginning and from ancient times
things
that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall
stand .
. .
(Isaiah 46:9-10). He tells us He alone not only
foretells
the future but can bring it to pass. What a powerful
testimony to the Mighty God of the Bible!
But, great as He is, God is not unapproachable. He
is
not
beyond our reach. We can come to know this
magnificent
Being.
As author Karen Armstrong observed: Throughout
history,
men
and women have experienced a dimension of the spirit
that
seems to transcend the mundane world. Indeed, it is
an
arresting characteristic of the human mind to be
able to
conceive concepts that go beyond it in this way (A
History
of God, 1992, p. xxi).
She expressed our innate longing to know and
understand
things beyond our physical senses. We want to know
why
we
are here, what our purpose is, whether some sort of
higher
power works in our lives and the world around us.
Inspired by the Holy Spirit, the Bible itself gives
us
the
master key to knowing God: Scripture speaks of
things
beyond our hearing, things beyond our imagining, all
prepared by God for those who love him, and these
are
what
God has revealed to us through the Spirit, for the
Spirit
explores everything, even the depths of God's own
nature
(1
Corinthians 2:9-10, Revised English Bible, emphasis
added
throughout).
We need to know?from inspired Scripture itself?who
God
is
and how He relates to and reveals Himself to us. We
need
to
understand the very nature of our Creator?to know,
in
the
words of Albert Einstein, the mind of God. In a
nutshell
this is the purpose of this booklet. (Our free
booklets
Life's Ultimate Question: Does God Exist? and
Creation
or
Evolution: Does It Really Matter What You Believe?
address
the question of God's existence in depth.)
Never has humanity so desperately needed true
knowledge
about God. One writer aptly described our world as
crowded
with bewildered souls: jaded, adrift men andn
desperately looking for hope. Our Creator wants us
to
understand Him much better so we can have hope and
confidence in the veracity of His Word, which
describes
His
plan and purpose for humanity.
Let's begin our study by seeing what the Scriptures
reveal
about the glory and magnificence of God. This
provides
us
with the proper background?the right attitude and
approach?to comprehending the majestic nature of our
Creator.
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