The Good Charicter of God

I do not know who is reading this book. Whether you are a christian or not. Even if you arw a christian, in todays world of various beliefs within the christian faith, i do not know what you even believe.

This is perhaps part of the problem.

Nevertheless as a Christian i am going to make assumptions reagrding who is reading this book.

I want to start, as we should always start with God.

And i can think of no better starting point than to state as a fact of our faith, which any Christian should embrace and believe, that God is good.

Psalm 145:9 AV

9 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works.

His Word is good.

Hebrews 6:5 AV

5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

His word is pure.

Proverbs 30:5 AV

5 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him.

God is perfectly fair and just.

Deuteronomy 32:4 AV

4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

God is not biased.

Acts 10:34–35 AV

34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 35 But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.

These truths are of such comfort and strength to the Christian.

It means that we can trust that everything God says, does and ecides is always good, always just, always fair and always perfect.

This may at first seem like a given, however for many its more of a problem that a blessing.

The reason is simple: The Bible.

No christian beleiev has come under more attack than the belief that the Bible is the Holy Inspired, inerrent Word of God.

A view which believes that the Bible is anything but perfect, open any scriptual truth to iether private interpretation, manipulation or even down right dismissal.

This book is not a defence of scriptual inerrency, rather i am making an assumption that those who guenuly care about the bible believe in its authority, inerrency and preservation.

So as “bible beliving Christians” we can look at scripture with the knowledge and comfort that all that it says about anything is always good, always true, always pure and always fair and just.

Because the God who inspired it is all these things.

The scriptures are the fulness of God heart “for out of the heart the mouth speaks”.

Armed with this, we can confidently persue and investigate anything with the assurace that we will find truth.

The only real “danger” is that we might find truth that disagree’s with “our truth”.

We might, like Adam, choose to hide from God searching eyes.

Why would any Christian, who rejoyces in being reconciled to God, ever choose to hide from God?

Because any guenie investigation in scripture may reveal a belief, an opinion or a worldview which we have, love and hold to may be wrong.

And in a generation where:

Proverbs 21:2 AV

2 Every way of a man is right in his own eyes: but the LORD pondereth the hearts.

Readin the scriptures without humility to be corrected suddenly becomes a problem.

Once again, I have to make an assumption about you. Not only am i assuming that you believe that God is always good and that His Word is always true, but i am also assuming that you have the humility to let God’s authorative Word say what it says to a heart that is willing to be corrected by it.

Can you say that you truly believe:

Romans 3:4 AV

4 God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Matthew 24:35 AV

35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

If you are then we can proceed.