God is...

Question 1

Three things God is

Answer 1

Creator, Sovereign, and Judge

Question 2

What does “Creator, Sovereign, and Judge” mean?

Answer 2

He made all reality as we know it. He sustains all reality as we know it. He relates to all reality as we know it.

Question 3

What does heliocentric?

Answer 3

Heliocentric means “Sun centered.” It’s like theocentric - “Son centered)

Question 4

What does Christ mean?

Answer 4

literally, “messiah.” It means “Annointed One.”

Question 5

What does Jesus mean?

Answer 5

Literally “Yeshua.” It means, “God saves”

Question 6

Jesus Christ means

Answer 6

Savior, the annointed One

Question 7

What are God’s “attributes” called?

Answer 7

perfections

Question 8

What are the overarching categories of God’s perfections?

Answer 8

holiness (state of being unique), self-sufficiency (God doesn’t need anything), infinitude (immeasurable)

Question 9

Holiness

Answer 9

God as the “Wholy Other,” the basis and starting of all reality. Holiness is first ontological (philosophy of being) and second moral.

Question 10

Sovereignty

Answer 10

God completely rules, alone

Question 11

Infinitude

Answer 11

God is unmeasurable in all senses (time, size, knowledge, etc.)

Question 12

Eternal

Answer 12

God is outside time. He is unmeasurable in or by time

Question 13

Omnipotence

Answer 13

doing anything you want, whenever you want - without effort. God is power.

Question 14

Omniscience

Answer 14

knowing everything

Question 15

omnipresence

Answer 15

being present/conscious everywhere in reality

Question 16

Immutable

Answer 16

does not change in essence, neither in any communicable, nor incommunicable way (we changed, not him)

Question 17

impassible

Answer 17

cannot be affected. Not driven by people or emotions

Question 18

Immense

Answer 18

immeasurable, spatially both materially and immaterially

Question 19

perfect

Answer 19

as is reality - in ought, in being, and without any defect - the source

Question 20

self-existent

Answer 20

relying only on self for being, remaining, and rights

Question 21

love

Answer 21

affection as one with Life, Light, and Happiness

Question 22

Personhood

Answer 22

God is a person, not an immaterial force. He is why we are persons.

Question 23

Unity

Answer 23

That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the persons, nor dividing the substance

Question 24

good

Answer 24

God is the moral center, dependable, beneficial to all

Question 25

mercy

Answer 25

God does not destroy, but holds account with Justice, but a justice including self-sacrifice - very akin to grace

Question 26

Roles

Answer 26

there are distinctions of authority and action in the Threefold Godhead

Question 27

Spirit

Answer 27

God is first beyond material, a spirit immeasurable

Question 28

Singularity

Answer 28

God is One and not unknowable, simplistic and pure

Question 29

Just

Answer 29

God bears and exacts righteousness on all creation