Category Nature and Identity of God – Christ – Holy Spirit

Answering Important Jehovah’s Witness Teachings

Jesus says we must worship God in Spirit and in Truth. (John 4:23.24) But what is truth? Again, Jesus says that God’s word is truth. (John 17:17) Both Paul and Timothy identify the Scriptures as God’s word (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21). So if we want to know the truth about God, we must go to God’s word, the Bible, to learn what it is.

In order to worship God in truth, we must do so according to what He says about who He is. We cannot please Him by worshipping a false “God”. This is the most fundamental question to answer: who is God? The second is: what is the true gospel? To know the true gospel, we must know the true God.

The Bible tells us there is one God...

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NATURE OF GOD – Who, of What Sort, and What Character is Almighty God?

Does it matter what we believe about the nature of God? Why or why not? Can someone be saved while believing that God is other than what God is? (ie: not believing that Jesus is God, believing that the Holy Spirit is merely the divine breath of God)

Two strands for evaluation:

What does the Bible say?

What does the material universe indicate or necessitate concerning the nature of the God which created?

God is either:

An abstract force or ‘intelligence’ A personal quantity or entity
Non-living or a “concept” Living
Pervades the universe (pantheism) A particular single or multiple entity
In all things (panentheism) Independent of all other things
Everything is “god” Only one is God

The Biblical God is either:

One Being presented in different roles (modalism: O...
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