Category Nature and Identity of God – Christ – Holy Spirit

According to Jesus, Who is Jesus?

Isaiah 44:6  Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and His Redeemer the LORD of hosts; ‘I am the first, and I am the last; and beside Me there is no God.’

Malachi 3:6  For I am the LORD, I change not ….

John 8:56-58  ‘Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.’

Then said the Jews unto him, ‘You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?’

Jesus said unto them, ‘Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am.’”

Revelation 1:5-19:

5       And from Jesus Christ, Who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the Prince of the kings of the earth. To Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood,

6       And has made us kings and priests to...

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...

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:

The Biblical God is either: