Faith of Our Fathers (2)
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II. God
II. God
R.G. Lee - Pay Day Some Day
Was he born Baptist?
I was born dead in my tesspasses and sin to baptist parents.
Dr. Timothy George
In much contemporary theology today, the note of God’s grandeur, greatness, and glory that so fills the Bible is noticeably missing.
Such theology suffers from a doxological deficit.
There is one and only one living and true God. He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being, the Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe. God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections. God is all powerful and all knowing; and His perfect knowledge extends to all things, past, present, and future, including the future decisions of His free creatures. To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience. The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.
There is one and only one living and true God.
There is one and only one living and true God.
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,
6 that people may know, from the rising of the sun and from the west, that there is none besides me; I am the Lord, and there is no other.
He is an intelligent, spiritual, and personal Being
The eastern religions hold to the concept that god is an impersonal force or principle.
“god is all and all is god”
“god is all and all is god”
Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe
Creator, Redeemer, Preserver, and Ruler of the universe
Creator
1 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Redeemer
4 Our Redeemer—the Lord of hosts is his name— is the Holy One of Israel.
Preserver
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,
God Rules
3 Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.
God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections.
God is infinite in holiness and all other perfections.
3 And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”
God is all powerful and all knowing; and His perfect knowledge extends to all things, past, present, and future, including the future decisions of His free creatures.
God is all powerful and all knowing; and His perfect knowledge extends to all things, past, present, and future, including the future decisions of His free creatures.
5 Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.
In the Christian view God knows all of reality—everything there is to know. But to assume He knows ahead of time how every person is going to freely act assumes that each person’s free activity is already there to know—even before he freely does it! But it’s not. If we have been given freedom, we create the reality of our decisions by making them. And until we make them, they don’t exist. Thus, in my view at least, there simply isn’t anything to know until we make it there to know. So God can’t foreknow the good or bad decisions of the people He creates until He creates these people and they, in turn, create their decisions.
To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience.
To Him we owe the highest love, reverence, and obedience.
30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’
The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.
The eternal triune God reveals Himself to us as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with distinct personal attributes, but without division of nature, essence, or being.