God’s nature

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English Standard Version Chapter 2

then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature

Can be trused as the source because Hes is self existing.

He is and may be known. Faith and experience.

He is inependent of life, making Him the most reliable source of it.

His Nature

God is pure spirit, meaning He is intellegent energy.

Jesus made this diisclosure about the God who is the object of our worship to t he woman in Samaria in

John 4:24 “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.””

When we say God is pure Spirit it is to empahasize that He is not part man and part spirit like us.

meaning He isnt and can’t be bound by physics or space

When i first saw this verse i was very confused because arent we made in His image? What happened to Jesus?

But it was Jesus who made this distinction and He did to reveal God’s nature so that the woman and we could know and understand that worship of God is not confined to a single geographical loacation.

We often see the Bible writers referring to God’s eyes and hands and feet

when they do this they are simply ascribing to His powers that corresepond to what these physical parts enable us humans to do.

Apple of my eye example, he created the eye and it’s correspondence to the heart, he created the apple too so he knew exactly what saying it this way would communicate in terms of our understanding.

if we did not speak of God in this way as humans who are not pure Spirit, we could barely speak of Him at all.

This does not imply imperfection in God, it does not make Him less it makes Him more and establishes Him as holy since His life as Spirirt is not limited or restricted.

We on the other hand are limited as to time and place and as to knowledge and power, so when we say God is Spirit we surpass completely out of reach our experience.

Every aspect of God’s nature is infinite.

In relation to time we call His eternity

In relation to space we call His omnipresence

In relation to knowlegde we call His omniscience

In relation to power His omnipotence

Eternity - a continual span of time that never ends, right because He had to define time to those who are bound by it so you’re thinking it goes on forever but it is forever and in this form we have no capacity to understand that.

Omnipresent - to be present in everywhere at all times.

Pslam 139:7

English Standard Version Psalm 139

Where shall I go from your Spirit?

Or where shall I flee from your presence?

8  If I ascend to heaven, you are there!

If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!

9  If I take the wings of the morning

and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,

10  even there your hand shall lead me,

and your right hand shall hold me.

11  If I say, “Surely the darkness shall cover me,

and the light about me be night,”

12  even the darkness is not dark to you;

the night is bright as the day,

for darkness is as light with you.

Omniscient - the quality of having complete and infinite knowledge ecompassing everything, past present and future. esssentially, He is all knowing.

He is the ultimate criterion of all truth and falsity meaning He can be truseted. He knows evertyhing so you can trust His guidance and protection because He is infinitely aware of your needs and circumstances. This also makes Him a just judge as He knows the true nature of anyone’s heart or actions.

Omnipotent - the quality of haaving unlimited power.

He is all powerfula and has unlimited authority over all things.

The word omni in latin means all so when we say ominipresente, everywhere at all times

science means knowlegde so all knowing

potent mesns powerful so all powerful

God is all present, all knowing and all powerful.

This infinity of God means that He is transcendent, it emphasizes His self existance. He is not bound by what we call nature but infinitely exalted above it.

Even in the scriptures that emphasize His local and temparol manifistation, the also ephasize His omnipotence and exaltation as external to the world. it’s sovereign Creator and Judge.

English Standard Version Chapter 40

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand

and marked off the heavens with a span,

enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure

and weighed the mountains in scales

and the hills in a balance?

13  Who has measured the Spirit of the LORD,

or what man shows him his counsel?

14  Whom did he consult,

and who made him understand?

Who taught him the path of justice,

and taught him knowledge,

and showed him the way of understanding?

15  Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,

and are accounted as the dust on the scales;

behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.

16  Lebanon would not suffice for fuel,

nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.

17  All the nations are as nothing before him,

they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness

He is here but He is holy.

His infinity also emphasizes His immanence

immanence - indewilling or inherent

The immanence of God means that He is connected to His creation, near us.

Though being set apart He does not stand apart from the world, a mere spectator of the work of His hands.

he prevades everything, acting from within outwards, from the center of every atom and from the innermost springs of thought and life and feeling.

In acts 17 for example we have an expression of both God’s transcendence and immanence.

In this passage Paul affrims of the transcedent God as

The New Bible Dictionary, Third Edition II. His Nature

‘the God who made the world and everything in it, is the Lord of heaven and earth, and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else’,

He then affrms His immanence as the one who “is not far from each of us, for in Him we live and move and have our being.”

English Standard Version Chapter 17

24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man, 25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. 26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, 27 that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28 for

“ ‘In him we live and move and have our being’;

as even some of your own poets have said,

“ ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’

He is holy but He is here

This is not a contradiction, it is the nature of God.

i needed us to fully capture and understand His power and granduer and holiness so that we can more affectionately understand His character and fatherhood and all that we’re gonna get into.

Last Verse standing

English Standard Version Psalm 16

You make known to me the path of life;

in your presence there is fullness of joy;

at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

English Standard Version Chapter 41

10  fear not, for I am with you;

be not dismayed, for I am your God;

I will strengthen you, I will help you,

I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

I like this verse so much becasue it corresponds so beautifully with isaiah 41:10

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