Person Of God

Question 1

What is the basis for the Christian concept of God as being a person?

Answer 1

Anything that has will, self-awareness, emotions, being able to recognize others, speaking, etc. is a person. Thus, God qualifies as a person.

Each person of the trinity has a will - Luke 22:42; 1 Cor. 12:11
Each person speaks - Matt 3:17; Luke 5:20; Acts 13:2
OT speaking - Gen 1:29; Exodus 3:14

Question 2

Give some of the NT definitions of God?

Answer 2

God is Spirit - John 4:24. “God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in the Spirit and in truth”

God is a consuming fire - Hebrews 12:29 “for our ‘God is a consuming fire’”

God is light - 1 John 1:5 “This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all”

God is love - 1 John 4:8 “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love”

Question 3

Atheism

Answer 3

The belief that there is not God

Question 4

Deism

Answer 4

The belief in the existence of God on the evidence of reason and nature only, with rejection of supernatural revelation or the belief in a God who created the world but has since remained indifferent to it.

Question 5

Theism

Answer 5

Theism states that the existence and continuation of the universe is owed to one supreme Being, who is distinct from Creation. For this reason, theism proclaims a dualistic relation between God and the world, wherein God is a being who controls events from outside the human world.

Question 6

Pantheism

Answer 6

The belief that the reality, the universe and the cosmos is identical with divinity and a supreme being or entity, pointing to the universe as being a immanent creator deity still growing and creating, which has existed since the beginning of time, starting with the Big Bang.

Question 7

Anthropomorphism

Answer 7

Ascribing human form or attributes to a being or thing not a human, especially a deity

Question 8

How can God maintain a personal relationship with his creatures?

Answer 8

First, God made a personal relationship possible with his creatures through the atoning work of Jesus Christ. Our sin creates a necessary distance between us and God. To resolve this issue, God sent Jesus to permanently atone for our sin, making way for us to enter the presence of God and be in relationship with God. However, for the relationship to begin, we must accept Jesus as our Lord and Savior and confess our sins and ask for forgiveness.

Question 9

What are some evidences and arguments for the existence of God?