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1 | No Rules, Just Right! | Ps 34:8 | Pemican | 16834 | ||
I think the answer to your question has to start with an understanding of the essence of God. The essence or character of God consists of His attributes of sovereignty, righteousness, justice, love, eternal life, omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience, immutability and voracity. (A lot of time could be spent explaining any one of these attributes but for now I will assume you have some understanding of them or can look them up.) The "rules", as you put it, that God follows relate to the fact that He will not and cannot violate His own essence. To do so would be an inconsistency and imperfection, and therefore He would not be God. He will not bend His righteousness and let any sin go uncondemned and unjudged, for instance. His immutability guarantees this as well as the fact that none of His other attributes can change. As the Creator of all things, the One who has always existed unsustained by anything outside of Himself, He has absolute rights over His own creation to establish the "rules" of righteousness as a reflection of and consistent with who He is. When you start to think about how big God is as the one who created and sustains the universe as well as all forms of life, space, and time, it is clear that God has been free to do an awful lot within the bounds of His essence, as it pleased Him to do. In His Grace, Pemican |
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2 | No Rules, Just Right! | Ps 34:8 | CDBJ | 16975 | ||
Pemican, I like your explanation of God's essence and in that order. Could that have come out of Houston? CDBJ | ||||||
3 | No Rules, Just Right! | Ps 34:8 | Pemican | 16977 | ||
Yes, CDBJ, it came out of Houston, along with most of what I know about the Bible. In His Grace, Pemican |
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4 | No Rules, Just Right! | Ps 34:8 | CDBJ | 17008 | ||
Pemican, that makes two of us, with the exception of different view on eschatology, for a total of 32 years as my didaskalos. CDBJ | ||||||