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Title: The God of the Bible


1
The God of the Bible
  • The Creator as Revealed in His BookQuotations
    from the English Standard Version

2
The God of the Bible
  • A reasoned case for belief
  • The attributes of God
  • The character of God
  • Gods relationship with us

3
Big questions (matter matters!)
  • The scientific method
  • A mathematical, physical world
  • Evolution of life
  • But where did it all come from?

4
Where did it all come from?
  • Steady State
  • No beginning, no end, no God
  • The Big Bang
  • An almighty explosion
  • the big bang was not the abrupt switching on of
    time at some singular first moment, but the
    emergence of time from space in an ultra rapid
    but nevertheless continuous manner

5
Where did it all come from?
  • The only reasonable answer is that the universe
    has a creator
  • An Almighty explosion!
  • In the beginning God created the heavens and the
    earth

6
Is it reasonable to believe in God?
  • The only reason for existence is that the
    universe has a creator
  • But whats the point of existence?
  • God must have a purpose

7
Gods purpose revealed
  • The only reason for creation is that the creator
    has a purpose
  • But whats the point of knowing this?
  • God must want us to understand
  • Let there be light

8
A communicative God
  • The only reason for our ability to understand is
    that the creator wants to communicate with us
  • God is a communicator
  • It is reasonable to expect to have his message
  • It must be a message that is consistent with our
    world

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The message of the Bible
  • A consistent message from a communicative creator
  • Creation
  • A broken world
  • A route to healing
  • A bright future
  • Freewill
  • A message that hinges on faith

10
The case for belief in the God of the Bible
  • Reasoned explanation for existence
  • Creative God
  • Communicative God
  • The Bible
  • Gods message to creation
  • Gives meaning to existence

11
Attributes of God
Then Moses said to God, If I come to the people
of Israel and say to them, The God of your
fathers has sent me to you, and they ask me,
What is his name? what shall I say to them?
God said to Moses, I AM WHO I AM. And he said,
Say this to the people of Israel, I AM has sent
me to you. God also said to Moses, Say this to
the people of Israel, The LORD, the God of your
fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac,
and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This
is my name forever, and thus I am to be
remembered throughout all generations. (Ex
313-15 ESV)
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of
men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the
truth. For what can be known about God is plain
to them, because God has shown it to them. For
his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal
power and divine nature, have been clearly
perceived, ever since the creation of the world,
in the things that have been made. So they are
without excuse. (Ro 118-20 ESV)
  • Creative Communicative
  • Eternal
  • Unchanging
  • Everywhere
  • Invisible
  • Uniquely supreme
  • Unsearchable

The God who made the world and everything in it,
being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in
temples made by man, nor is he served by human
hands, as though he needed anything, since he
himself gives to all mankind life and breath and
everything. Yet he is actually not far from
each one of us, for In him we live and move and
have our being as even some of your own poets
have said, For we are indeed his offspring.
(Ac 1724-28 ESV)
Hear, O Israel The LORD our God, the LORD is
one. (De 64 ESV) For thus says the LORD, who
created the heavens (he is God!), who formed the
earth and made it (he established it he did not
create it empty, he formed it to be inhabited!)
I am the LORD, and there is no other. (Isa
4518 ESV)
For I the LORD do not change therefore you, O
children of Jacob, are not consumed. (Mal 36
ESV)
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from
above, coming down from the Father of lights with
whom there is no variation or shadow due to
change. (Jas 117 ESV)
When all things are subjected to him, then the
Son himself will also be subjected to him who put
all things in subjection under him, that God may
be all in all. (1Co 1528 ESV) one Lord, one
faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all,
who is over all and through all and in all. (Eph
45-6 ESV)
Moses said, Please show me your glory. And he
said, I will make all my goodness pass before
you and will proclaim before you my name The
LORD. And I will be gracious to whom I will be
gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show
mercy. But, he said, you cannot see my face,
for man shall not see me and live.(Ex 3318-20
ESV)
O LORD, you have searched me and known me! You
know when I sit down and when I rise up you
discern my thoughts from afar. You search out my
path and my lying down and are acquainted with
all my ways. Even before a word is on my tongue,
behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. (Ps
1391-4 ESV)
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and
knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his
judgments and how inscrutable his ways! For who
has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been
his counselor? Or who has given a gift to him
that he might be repaid? For from him and
through him and to him are all things. To him be
glory forever. Amen. (Ro 1133-36 ESV)
He (Jesus) is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn of all creation.(Col 115 ESV)
Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised, and
his greatness is unsearchable.(Ps 1453 ESV)
12
Attributes Character - Whats the Difference?
  • His Attributes
  • Qualities which are beyond us
  • His Character
  • Qualities we can aspire to

13
The Character of God (Ex 34v5-7)
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the
great love with which he loved us, even when we
were dead in our trespasses, made us alive
together with Christby grace you have been
saved and raised us up with him and seated us
with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
so that in the coming ages he might show the
immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness
toward us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have
been saved through faith. And this is not your
own doing it is the gift of God, not a result of
works, so that no one may boast.(Eph 24-9 ESV)
How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever? How
long will you hide your face from me? How long
must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in
my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be
exalted over me? Consider and answer me, O LORD
my God light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep
of death, lest my enemy say, I have prevailed
over him, lest my foes rejoice because I am
shaken. But I have trusted in your steadfast
love my heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I
will sing to the LORD, because he has dealt
bountifully with me. (Ps 131-6 ESV)
  • The LORD, a God merciful
  • and gracious,
  • slow to anger and
  • abounding in steadfast love and
  • faithfulness
  • forgiving iniquity, not the guilty,
  • visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the
    children
  • Merciful
  • Gracious
  • Patient
  • Loving
  • Faithful
  • Just
  • Fair

And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, You
may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you
shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it
you shall surely die. (Ge 216-17 ESV)
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that
with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and
a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow
to fulfill his promise as some count slowness,
but is patient toward you, not wishing that any
should perish, but that all should reach
repentance. But the day of the Lord will come
like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away
with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be
burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the
works that are done on it will be exposed.(2Pe
38-10 ESV)
Keep your life free from love of money, and be
content with what you have, for he has said, I
will never leave you nor forsake you. So we can
confidently say, The Lord is my helper I
will not fear what can man do to me? (Heb
135-6 ESV)
I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting
the iniquity of the fathers on the children to
the third and fourth generation of those who hate
me, but showing steadfast love to thousands of
those who love me and keep my commandments.
(De 59-10 ESV)
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift
of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our
Lord.(Ro 623 ESV)
14
In Gods Image?
15
In Gods Image?
  • Then God said, Let us make man in our image,
    after our likeness. So God created man in his
    own image, in the image of God he created him
    male and female he created them.(Ge 126-27 ESV)
  • God works (with us) through his angels
  • There is something of God and the angels in each
    of us
  • The (potential for) the divine in human character
    (and the human frame?)

16
The Angel of the LORD
  • And the LORD appeared to Abraham by the oaks of
    Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the
    heat of the day. He lifted up his eyes and
    looked, and behold, three men were standing in
    front of him. (Ge 181-2 ESV)
  • And the LORD went his way, when he had finished
    speaking to Abraham, and Abraham returned to his
    place. The two angels came to Sodom in the
    evening, (Ge 1833-191 ESV)
  • The angel of the LORD was among the three men.

17
The Role of Angels
  • And to which of the angels has he ever said, Sit
    at my right hand until I make your enemies a
    footstool for your feet? Are they not all
    ministering spirits sent out to serve for the
    sake of those who are to inherit salvation?(Heb
    113-14 ESV)

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The God of the Bible
  • Clear
  • Realistic
  • Sensible
  • What we would expect
  • It really does make sense to believe in the God
    of the Bible
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