DEFINING  THE  GOD  OF  SCRIPTURE

"What the Bible actually reveals about the nature of God includes much more than is indicated by the spiritual characteristics referred to in the previous page. The Book of Job, for example, tells us that, 'He is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.' In John's Gospel he states, "God is a spirit, and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. In John 5:26, the Apostle says, 'As the Father hath life in himself; so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself.' John 17:17 reads, 'Sanctify them through thy truth, they word is truth.' In John's first Epistle we are informed that God is love.

These Biblical terms for God, combined with certain essential characteristics of the divine nature, begin at once to challenge our old concept of a limited man-like deity, and to replace it with a more spiritually accurate, Bible-based definition of God as the One Creator who both constitutes and includes all cause and effect, all real knowledge, all identity, substance, being, all reality, and goodness."

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