Our God All can see the existence of God in nature as pointed out in Psalms 19:1. The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows His handiwork. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. Psalms 19:1-2 God speaks to us in the things He has made. Rightly understood, nature testifies of God's wisdom and glory. The green fields, the flowers, the clouds, the rain, the starry heavens invite us to become acquainted with the One who made them all. God so loves and cares for the flowers that He has decked with beauty, so how much more tenderly will He guard the children who are formed in His image. "Since I am a child of God, His loving care is around me. I will be obedient and in no way displease Him, but will praise His dear name and love Him always " TC p19 The Name of God | God is referred to by many names. Hebrew's names mostly indicate some personal characteristics of a person or the thoughts and emotions of the one giving the name, or attendant circumstances at the time the name was given. SDA BC Vol. 1, p523 God's Name is His character. God proclaimed the Name of the Lord as in Exodus 33:19. God is The Lord, merciful and gracious, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and unto the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation. Ex 33:19; Ex 34:6-7 Yahweh is God's personal name. -
God's name: YHWH or YAHWEH which came from the verb hayah - meaning "to be";
Yahweh would then mean - "the One who lives eternally," or "the Self-Existing One".
God explains the meaning of Yahweh as: "'I AM' WHO I AM" in Exodus 3:11-14 see below
The Greek words, Ego eimi also means, "I am" or Yahveh as used in St John 8:58.
YHWH is the spelling one uses in order not to misrepresent God or not to take the name of the Lord God in vain, in the Old Testament time, as the Commandments stated. The Judeo-Christian God El Shaddai means "the Almighty God". The Lord means God as the Maker, Ruler, and Owner of all things. -
The NIV or NJKV versions of Exodus 6:3 read: "And God spoke to Moses and said to him: "I am the LORD. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name LORD I was not known to them." -
Jehovah indicates the God of the universe. -
But in Exodus 6:3 KJV reads: "And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob [Israel], by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them."
| The Only True God | Love God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.
God is a jealous God. It is a fearful thing to trifle with Him. Matthew 22.37 & Deuteronomy 6:5 Reading Revelation 1:8, 11, 17 with understanding shows that the Almighty God is the Alpha and Omega in verse 8. In Rev. 1:11 we see that Alpha and Omega is Jesus since He told John to write the book of Revelation also as in verse 17. God and Jesus are ONE. Also Isaiah 44:6 says that the First and the Last (Alpha and Omega) is the one only God. | | God is Creator of all things, and has revealed in Scripture the authentic account of His creative activity. In six days the Lord made "the heaven and the earth" and all living things upon the earth, and rested on the seventh day of that first week. Thus He established the Sabbath as a perpetual memorial of His completed creative work. The first man and woman were made in the image of God as the crowning work of Creation, given dominion over the world, and charge with responsibility to care for it. when the world was finished it was "very good," declaring the glory of God.
Creation: SDA Fundamental Beliefs #6 | | |
The Bible tells us that -- long ago God spoke to our ancestors in many and various ways by the prophets, but in these last days he has spoken to us by a Son -- whom he have appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds; Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high (Hebrews 1:1, 2, 3).
| | Matthew 1:21 There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him;
and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him. 1Corinthians 8:6 | | "No man hath seen God [the Father] at any time; but the only begotten Son, which was in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. And this is the record of St. John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ." See St John 1:18-20 Father, Son and Holy Spirit There is but one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three co-eternal Persons.
See (Deut. 6:4; Matt. 28:19; 2 Cor. 13:14; Eph. 4:4-6; - 1 Peter 1:2; 1 Tim. 1:17; Rev. 14:7) God, The Father As stated in 1-Corinthians 8:6 -There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; In Genesis 1:1 stated that whosoever created the Heaven and the Earth is God.
In Genesis 1:2 shows that the Holy Spirit [of God] helps created the Earth.
In Genesis 1:3 shows that the Word [of God] [Jesus] helps created the Earth.
In Genesis 1:4 shows that the God [the Father] notice that the creation of Earth was very good and He divided the light [day] from the darkness [night] shows that He also helps created the Earth. The Holy Spirit Jesus the Christ, informed His followers that the Holy Spirit would act as His representative in continuing to communicate the divine message through His messengers. Jesus said: the Comforter, the Holy Spirit, "will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you." "He will guide you into all the truth" (See St. John 14:26; 16:13). The Holy Spirit inspired the writers of Bible Scripture. He filled Christ's life with power. He draws and convicts human beings to respond to the Word of God. The Holy Spirit extends spiritual gifts to the church and empowers it to bear witness to Jesus the Christ. The man that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace? See Hebrews 10:28, 29 This is He who came by water and blood--Jesus Christ; not only by water, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who bears witness, because the Spirit is truth. For there are three that bear witness in heaven: the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit; and these three are one. And there are three that bear witness on earth:[2] the Spirit, the water, and the blood; and these three agree as one." [NKJV] See I John 5:6-8 Jesus Christ - The Word The name Jesus means: "The Lord is Salvation". see Isaiah 12:2 The name, Jesus is also the Greek form of Joshua which means: the Lord saves; which in the Hebrew is Yehoshua and in Aramaic is Yeshua. God's greatest love was manifested through the supreme revelation of Jesus Christ, His Son. Jesus offers eternal life - that mankind may know the One and the only true God and Jesus the Christ whom God had sent into this world. See St. John 17:3 also Isaiah 9:6 Jesus Christ is the Word of God - God thought made audible. Jesus is the One that spoke this world into existence and is the son of God, the Father: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him; and without him was not any thing made that was made" in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. See St John 1:1-3 and Colossians 1:16 Jesus Christ was God's ultimate revelation to the human race. His person, His message, and His ministry demonstrated clearly and persuasively that Divinity wished to communicate with humanity. He appeared as the second Adam such that the physically, mentally, and spiritually nature of the human race be fully restored to its divine image. What Adam lost, Jesus restored. Jesus as God To this sin-darkened earth, Jesus came to reveal the light of God the Father's love - to be "God with us". It was prophesied of Him, "His name shall be called Immanuel".
In the Old Testament Ex 3:14, God spoke to Moses with the name 'I AM That I AM', but read in St. John 8:24, 28 & 58 of the New Testament, that the "I AM" statement affirms the divinity of Jesus Christ as the God of the Old Testament as spoken to Moses. Christ, Jesus can deliver the promised glories of the Old Testament future kingdom now by faith to those who believe in Him and have a relationship with Him, now. See St. John 8:58 Read: St John 8:58; St John 20:28; Hebrews 1:8, 9; Matt 11:25-27; also John 1:1,2. Jesus also used the 'I Am' statement in Luke 22:70 and St. Mark14:61-62. While the Bible certainly makes plain the humanity of Christ, it's also clear on His divinity. The God who existed prior to His assumption of humanity remained the same God, even though now He was clothed in humanity, a concept that is, indeed, hard for us to understand. Read Colossians 2:2,3 Jesus Christ is not "God the Father"! In St John 17:5 Jesus pray to 'God the Father' referring to when He [Jesus] was with the Father before this world was created.
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| | There is one God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, a unity of three co-eternal Persons. God is immortal, all-powerful, all-knowing, above all, and ever present. He is infinite and beyond human comprehension, yet known through His self-revelation. He is forever worthy of worship, adoration, and service by the whole creation. The Trinity: SDA Believe #2 |
The popular doctrines of this age cannot correctly represent Jesus. Our Savior, Jesus represented the Father. He rolled away the thick darkness from the throne of God, the hellish shadow which Satan had cast to hide God from sight and from knowledge. Christ reveals the throne of God and reveals to the world the Father as light and love. | |
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