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1 | The origin of God and His identity. | John 1:1 | Nrgarcia | 145674 | ||
In Genesis Chapter 1 verse 1, it begins with God, Where God came from and whos God are we talking about? | ||||||
2 | The origin of God and His identity. | John 1:1 | kmynns | 150679 | ||
God himself has always been there, he was there from the foundation of the world and before. We see in the book of John 1:1-2,14, that in the beginning was the word and the word was God and the word was with God. One thing we have seen the bible does not say anything about where God came from or who made him so all we know he was always there no one made him and if we have to think about it we might just go crazy trying to sort it out. God is our FATHER, he is the one who made us, he created all things, and he is the one that we ust serve all the days of our lives. We must live for him. We know that God exist we see it all around us everyday. When Jesus came down he also taught us alot about God. | ||||||
3 | The origin of God and His identity. | John 1:1 | BradK | 150683 | ||
Hi kmynns, Your comments are right on track! Welcome to the Forum:-) Along those same lines, Arthur Pink in his wonderful, time-tested exposition, "The Attributes of God", comments on the Solitariness of God: "The title of this article is perhaps not sufficiently explicit to indicate its theme. This is partly due to the fact that so few today are accustomed to meditate upon the personal perfections of God. Comparatively few of those who occasionally read the Bible are aware of the awe-inspiring and worship-provoking grandeur of the Divine character. That God is great in wisdom, wondrous in power, yet full of mercy, is assumed by many to be almost common knowledge; but, to entertain anything approaching an adequate conception of His being, His nature, His attributes, as these are revealed in Holy Scripture, is something which very, very few people in these degenerate times have attained unto. God is solitary in His excellency. "Who is like unto Thee, O Lord, among the gods? Who is like Thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders?" (Ex. 15:11). "In the beginning, God" (Gen. 1:1). There was a time, if "time" is could be called, when God, in the unity of His nature (though subsisting equally in three Divine Persons), dwelt all alone. "In the beginning, God." There was no heaven, where His glory is now particularly manifested. There was no earth to engage His attention. There were no angels to hymn His praises; no universe to be upheld by the word of His power. There was nothing, no one, but God; and that, not for a day, a year, or an age, but "from everlasting." During a past eternity, God was alone: self-contained, self-sufficient, self-satisfied; in need of nothing. Had a universe, had angels, had human beings been necessary to Him in any way, they also had been called into existence from all eternity. The creating of them when He did, added nothing to God essentially. He changes not (Mal. 3:6), therefore His essential glory can be neither augmented nor diminished. God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure; for He "worketh all things after the counsel of His own will" (Eph. 1:11). That He did create was simply for His manifestative glory. Do some of our readers imagine that we have gone beyond what Scripture warrants? Then our appeal shall be to the Law and the Testimony: "Stand up and bless the Lord your God forever and ever: and blessed be Thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise" (Neh. 9:5). God is no gainer even from our worship. He was in no need of that external glory of His grace which arises from His redeemed, for He is glorious enough in Himself without that. What was it moved Him to predestinate His elect to the praise of the glory of His grace? It was, as Ephesians 1:5 tells us, according to the good pleasure of His will." May these words add to our study, meditation, and worship of God! He alone is worthy! BradK |
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4 | The origin of God and His identity. | John 1:1 | terrib | 150761 | ||
Hi BradK, Where in the Scriptures does it say when God created the angels? Where do the Scriptures say that God was alone before the world was created? terrib |
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5 | The origin of God and His identity. | John 1:1 | Wild Olive Shoot | 150768 | ||
If Hebrews 1:14 means just what it says and is true in all cases; Then wouldn't God have created angels into existence about the same time as man or very soon after? Do angels serve other purposes besides ministering to us and carrying out God's commands and worshipping Him? Hebrews 1:14 (NIV)Are not all angels ministering spirits sent to serve those who will inherit salvation? I know it makes no difference really when they were created, just a question I thought was interesting. If they were sent to minister to us, would there have been a purpose for them prior to us? WOS |
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6 | The origin of God and His identity. | John 1:1 | kalos | 150771 | ||
I think that before I made speculative assertions about the purpose of angels, I would first get out my little old concordance and read the Scripture references to the word angel(s). Then I might be ready to start speculating, assuming and asserting. | ||||||
7 | The origin of God and His identity. | John 1:1 | Wild Olive Shoot | 150782 | ||
Harper’s Bible Dictionary edited by Paul J. Achtemier (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1985) angel (Gk. angelos, ‘messenger’), a spiritual being, subordinate to God, who serves at God’s command and pleasure to deliver his messages, help his people, and punish his enemies. In the ot, angels appear in the stories of the patriarchs (e.g., Gen. 16:7-14; 19:1-22; 22:11, 15-18; 28:12; 31:11-13; 32:1-2) and elsewhere (e.g., Exod. 3:2; 23:20-23; 33:2; Judg. 13:3-5; 1 Kings 19:5-7; 2 Kings 19:35; Isa. 37:36; Pss. 34:7; 35:5-6; 91:11). There is some ambiguity, however, about what form these messengers take, exactly what type of beings they are, and just what their relation to God is, especially in the earlier materials. Since God frequently confronts humans directly in the ot texts, the appearance of angels is somewhat sporadic. As religious thinking developed, and as God came to be understood as increasingly transcendent, the perceptions about angels also began to change. Ideas developed about good and bad angels, a hierarchy of angels before God, and specific duties assigned to each angel or group of angels. Many of these ideas can be found in the apocryphal and pseudepigraphical writings (e.g., Tobit, 2 Esdras, 1 Enoch, and The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs). By the nt period, angels were understood as suprahuman or spiritual beings who were allied with God in opposition to Satan and his angels, the demons. Angels had many functions. They praised God (Ps. 103:20), served as his messengers to the world (Luke 1:11-20, 26-38; 2:9-14), watched over God’s people (Ps. 91:11-12), and were sometimes instruments of God’s judgment (Matt. 13:49-50). KJV English Concordance for "mal'ak (Strong's 04397) " 1) messenger, representative a) messenger b) angel c) the theophanic angel AV angel 111, messenger 98, ambassadors 4, variant 1; 214 KJV English Concordance for "aggelos (Strong's 32) " aggelos (ang'-el-os) from aggello [probably derived from 71, cf 34] (to bring tidings) a messenger, envoy, one who is sent, an angel, a messenger from God AV angel 179, messenger 7; 186 So I guess my question is even more stirring since we see angels deliver God’s messages. Who are they delivering the messages to? Who were they ambassadors for? If their purpose is to deliver God’s message to us, was there a need for them prior to God creating us? I wasn’t really expecting an answer to my last post but since you have directed, my question seems to run deeper now. terrib’s reference to Ephesians 1:4 reminds me that God did choose us before the foundation of the world, but God did not “create” us prior to laying those foundations. Since angels are ministering “spirits”, they too could have been chosen prior to the foundation of the world and prior to us, (and maybe even existed since they didn’t need this world to exist) but then they would have no one to minister to, or to be an ambassador to or to deliver God’s message to. WOS |
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