Theology Thursday! How do you define or describe the nature of God?
The word theology is defined as "The study of the nature of God and religious truth; rational inquiry into religious questions."
Once again, this question is primarily directed to Christians, but I welcome all to answer as well.
God is God.
No words can describe Him; how can they when man invented words?!
Nothing we can ever imagine will even come close.
He is Benevolent; He is Onmipotent; He is Omnipresent; He is most Holy; He is just; He is our Creator; He is my Lord and Father; He is EVERYTHING, and I love Him with all my soul.
If anything is "God", the physical universe is.
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eclectic Pagan (pantheist)
Only one word can describe god: unbelievable
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some jerk I read about in a book once
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i think, based on the old and new testament, that he is narcissistic and a murderer. but he/it does not exists, just a figment of ones imagination to scare people into being good, control them or give them false hope.
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Quite simply, God is a loving Father, but He is also a JUST God because He is Holy.
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God is love, He is holy, just, and perfect.
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The Nature of God
[John 1:18
God is; a Spirit, God has a Personality, God is a Unity, God is a Trinity.
[ John 4:20; Genesis 1:26-27; Romans 11:33,34; Ephesians 1:11;
Deuteronomy 6:4;; Genesis 2:24; Genesis 1;1; 3:3-22; Psalm 2:6-7;
Matthew28:19; 2Corinthians13:14]
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God is God.
No words can describe Him; how can they when man invented words?!
Nothing we can ever imagine will even come close.
He is Benevolent; He is Onmipotent; He is Omnipresent; He is most Holy; He is just; He is our Creator; He is my Lord and Father; He is EVERYTHING, and I love Him with all my soul.
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(((SFCU)))
First John 4:8 and 16 tell us that “God is love.” This is a profound statement. God doesn’t just love; He is love. His nature and essence are love. Since it is God’s essential nature to love, He demonstrates His love by lavishing it on undeserving people who are in rebellion against Him. God’s love is not a sappy, sentimental, romantic feeling. Rather, it is agape love, the love of self-sacrifice. He demonstrates this sacrificial love by sending His Son to the cross to pay the penalty for our sin (1 John 4:10), by drawing us to Himself (John 6:44), by forgiving us of our rebellion against Him, and by sending His Holy Spirit to dwell within us, thereby enabling us to love as He loves.
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I want to believe this has some relationship to understanding how God works. What action creates a reaction. Here at Y/A we often see questions like "why does God let bad things happen to good people", or "If God is so loving why did he punish/kill so many people", "why does the bible seem to contradict itself"?
In studying God’s work we often have to look far beyond the words themselves, not so much for hidden meanings, but to understand the bible as a complete work, thus realizing that there is much integration between the books and texts of the bible, not only NT but OT as well.
Studying the bible also helps us to set God aside as big beyond description. He is not human, he is not simply a parent figure, he is the almighty God. God is so great that he he can move a mountains, yet Abba Father is so intimate that he can hold us in his arms and comfort us. Studying the bible teaches us to understand this great, awesome, powerful God of ours.
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Holy and loving. Perfect, yet reaching out to the imperfect.
Powerful, yet giving hope to the weak. Just, yet setting the prisoner free through Jesus.
Real, and having to put up with a world full of people that either replace Him with idols, try to earn their way when He has provided it all as a free gift;or who try to full themselves into thinking that they were accidents of evolution.
A Father who is ever forgiving and patient with His children, who let Him down and drag the name of Jesus through the mud by living one way and preaching another.
God wants real people who know their failures yet trust in His love and grace to get them through the day.
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Bible and studying people.