Gods Attributes
According to Christianity, the attributes of God can be organized into two
categories: Physical and ethical or moral. Some terms address God’s
transcendence of physical ideology, others address God’s Devine intellect and
will. There are a multitude of terms from which to choose when labeling the
attributes of God. Therefore, this paper will only deal with the fundamental
terms that are put forth by the sacred scriptures. God is, according to the Old
and New Testaments: Omnipotent, eternal, Immense, Incomprehensible, and infinite
in intellect and will The omnipotent characteristic of God is often referred to
in the Bible. God is said to have all the power for the benefit of man .
According the John, God said that men could have no power against him .
Christians believe that god has the power to free people from the most trying
circumstances and single handedly defeat great nations . God can, in the eyes of
Christians, do anything. Numerous biblical personalities have said that God is
eternal. The Lord is said to be and ever lasting father that will reign forever
. God is said to be a king in an everlasting Kingdom . God has always been and
always will be. He coexists with time; he does not exist in time. The Omni
presence of God is one argument that is difficult to uphold; it is extremely
reliant upon people’s interpretations of the most elementary Biblical passages.
Most Christians will testify that God is always everywhere. There are no
shortages of passages that say that God’s eyes are here and there, and that his
eyes are everywhere . There are also several scriptures that say the Lord’s
kingdom is in the heavens above and those who believe will be in his presence .
However, as far as I can see, there are no passages that say that God is always
everywhere . Is the Holy Trinity the Only way to support the Belief in the
existence of an infinitely immense God? No. The Trinity is based on the idea
that God can manifest himself through various mediums. God’s presence may be in
burning bushes; it may be in the body of mortal beings such as Jesus of
Nazareth. God could, according to the Trinity, be in many places at once, being
in many beings . However, we will run into a problem when we use the Holy
Trinity to explain the words that God said in Genesis 1:26. This passage proves,
not that there is more than one god, but that there are two or more beings that
are a part of one God. These beings, according to Genesis 1:26, share a common
image. Most Christians who believe in the Holy Trinity believe in an omnipotent
abstract God, the Holy Ghost or Spirit, and the Son who is, according to the
Trinity, the manly manifestation of the omnipotent God. In the Bible it says
that no man may see God and live to tell of it, so how could Jesus’ Disciples
spread the good news and speak of Jesus and still manage to live? Furthermore,
the Holy Spirit (Ghost) is a gift from God, not God himself. We cannot, with the
Holy Trinity or any other ideology, explain the literally omnipresent God.
However, if one believes that God spreads his seeds by giving the gift of life,
than we can say that, in a sense, God is everywhere, because man is, in a sense,
everywhere.
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