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Knowing God: His Names and Nature
Knowing God: His Names and Nature
Knowing God: His Names and Nature
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This short book explores some of the key characteristics of the God of the Bible.

CHAPTER ONE: A SELF-REVEALING GOD

CHAPTER TWO: A GREAT GOD

CHAPTER THREE: A GRACIOUS GOD

CHAPTER FOUR: A GOOD GOD

CHAPTER FIVE:  A HOLY GOD

CHAPTER SIX: KNOWING GOD THROUGH HIS NAMES

LanguageEnglish
PublisherHayes Press
Release dateJul 18, 2016
ISBN9781536544589
Knowing God: His Names and Nature

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    CHAPTER ONE: A SELF-REVEALING GOD

    IT HAS BEEN SAID BY someone that God is the greatest Fact. It may be more exact to say that God is the only Fact. Leave Him out of reckoning and nothing makes sense. Life itself becomes meaningless. Man is left to his own resources; he is adrift without compass on an uncharted sea. Indeed, this is the philosophy of the current vogue of atheistic humanism. Life is a useless passion, wrote Cohn Wilson in The Outsider, It is meaningless that we live, and it is meaningless that we die. Such a despairing creed leaves man without hope. It is the modern version of an old adage, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. What utter folly! In his poem, The Course of Time, Pollok thus depicts the sceptic’s route:

    "... he laboured hard,

    And toiled with dark and crooked reasoning,

    To make the fair and lovely earth which dwelt

    In sight of heaven, a cold and fatherless,

    Forsaken thing, that wandered on, forlorn.

    Undestined, uncompassioned, unupheld;

    A vapour eddying in the world of chance,

    And soon to vanish everlastingly.

    He travailed sorely, and made many a tack,

    His sails oft shifting, to arrive, dread thought!

    Arrive at utter nothingness; and have

    Being no more, no feeling, memory,

    No lingering consciousness, that e’er he was."

    The philosophy outlined above has been termed, Revolt against heaven and that is precisely what it is. It completely rejects Holy Scripture as divine revelation. But the Bible is a fact of life. It has to be reckoned with. What are its claims? It is not, as some represent it to be, an account of human strivings after God, reflecting man’s struggle for knowledge and his genius for discovering the unknown. The nature of Scripture is misunderstood unless it be recognized that it is the disclosure of a self-revealing God. This is what it claims to be. It therefore follows that the knowledge of God available to mankind is confined to what He has chosen to reveal about Himself. In condescending grace God has uttered His voice. Our wisdom will be to stand in awe, listen and respond.

    The opening words of Scripture, In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, are the starting point of God’s self-disclosure. No attempt is made to prove His existence. That there is one God who is the sole cause of creation is stated in clear and direct terms. Belief in this cardinal declaration is the first step along the road to the discovery of God. Without faith, we remain in darkness and ignorance, for he that cometh to God must believe that He is (Heb.11:6).

    There is, of course, confirming evidence outside Scripture of the existence of a Creator. The law of causation and the argument from design are frequently cited as harmonizing with the revelation of God in the Scriptures. This kind of evidence is termed by theologians natural religion (that is, what man is able to discover by his natural senses). The witness to God’s power and divinity by the things He has made is frequently referred to in Scripture, such as:

    "For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse" (Rom.1:20).

    The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language; their voice cannot be heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run his course.  His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof (Ps.19:1-6).

    But the disclosures of the written Word transcend anything that can be inferred from God’s creative acts. When addressing the Athenian philosophers on Mars’ Hill the apostle Paul summarized the witness to God, of creation and Scripture: The God that made the world and all things therein, He being Lord of heaven and earth, ... giveth to all life, and breath and all things ... He is not far from each one of us: for in Him we live, and move, and have our being (Acts 17:24-28). This summary merits careful study because of its precise treatment of doctrine of the Godhead.

    The revelation of God in Scripture is progressive. There is a gradual and orderly unfolding until the climax and

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