What Does The Bible Say About God? The answer to this question will help us to understand God’s Divine Nature and Sovereignty over Heaven and Earth. As followers of Jesus Christ, we perceive God as a Supreme Being, Principal Object of Faith, and Creator Deity. In addition, we perceive Him as being omnipotent (all-powerful), Omniscient (all-knowing), omnipresent (all-present) and One with a necessary and eternal existence. In simple terms, God has no beginning and no ending. He has always been existing and He will always exist. No human mind can fully understand His complexity. As humans, we are only allowed to know the little that He has revealed about His nature. With mere words, God created Heaven and Earth together with all that is in them.
We ourselves are the products of His hands. He is most often held to be incorporeal (immaterial). It is important to understand here that the incorporeality and corporeality of God are directly related to the concept of transcendence (being outside nature) and immanence (being in nature). In this light, we can point to a position of synthesis such as the “immanence transcendence.” Judaism which is the religion through which God revealed Himself to mankind describes Him using sex-specific terminologies. They attribute only a grammatical gender to God as they use terms such as “Him” or “Father” for convince. As pointed out by theism, God is the creator and sustainer of the universe. In the Hebrew Bible and Judaism, Elohim, Adonai, YHWH (Hebrew: יהוה) are some of the names used in referring to God. With Yahweh and Jehovah being vocalizations of YHWH in Christianity.
What Does The Bible Say About God?
What the Scriptures say about God
The Fact about God?
Whether it is through man’s conscience of creation, the fact of God’s existence is so conspicuous, that the Bible calls the atheist a “fool” (Psalm 14:1). An objective look across the Bible will reveal that it does not try by any means to prove the existence of God; rather, it fully assumes His existence from the very beginning (Genesis 1:1). The Bible is rather focused on revealing the nature, character, and work of God. However, the Bible points to the spiritual truth that all those following God do so by faith and not necessarily by sight nor proof.
Who is God?
Thinking of God in the right way is of a great importance. Failing to do so will lead to a false idea about God which is referred to as idolatry. In a simple language, we can say that God is “the Supreme Being; the all-present; goodness, and wisdom; the Creator and Ruler of all that is; the all-knowing; the all-powerful; the Self-existent One who is perfect in power.”
How is the Nature of God?
Today, we know a few things about the sovereign nature of God for one reason: in His unfailing love, compassion, immeasurable love, and mercy, He has condescended to reveal some of His qualities to us through the Bible verses about God. God is Spirit, by nature intangible as we can read from John 4:24. In addition, God is One, but He exist as Three Persons – God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (Matthew 3:16-17). Apostle Paul in His letter to Timothy pints out that God is Infinite (1 Timothy 1:17). In accordance to the words of Prophet Samuel, God is Incomparable (2 Samuel 7:22). The Psalmist writes that God is everywhere (Psalm 139:7-12) and the He knows everything (Psalm 147:5). God is unchanging (Malachi 3:6). Apostle Paul further writes that God has all power and authority (Ephesians 1).
How is the Character of God like?
The Bible clearly reveals some of God’s characteristics among which we can deduce the facts that God is loving (Ephesians 2:4-5), just (Acts 17:31), holy (1 John 1:5), and truthful (John 14:6). In addition, we can say without doubt that God shows mercy (Romans 9:15), compassion (2 Corinthians 1:3), offers forgiveness (Psalm 130:4), and eventually judges (Psalm 5:5).
What are some of the works of God?
We cannot clearly understand God apart from His works. This is simply because the works that He does flow from who He is. God did it in the past, He is still doing it these days, and He will certainly do it in times to come. Let’s now look at some of the works of God, past, present, and future: (Genesis 1:1; Isaiah 42:5); He is actively sustaining the world from above (Colossians 1:17); God Almighty is currently executing His eternal plan (Ephesians 1:11) which has to do with redeeming man from the curse of sin which leads to death (Galatians 3:13-14); He runs His redemption plan by drawing man to Christ (John 6:44); God disciplines His children out of love (Hebrews 12:6); and He will judge the whole world and reward everyone accordingly while punishing the wicked (Revelation 20:11-15).
How can I begin and enhance a relationship with God?
In the person of the Son, God became incarnate (John 1:14). That is, the Son of God, Jesus Christ, became the Son of Man, and is therefore the “bridge” between God and man (John 14:6; 1 Timothy 2:5). Hence, anyone who desires to begin and enhance a relationship with God that will lead him/her to eternal life must welcome Jesus Christ. It is only through the Son that we can have our sins forgiven and offered eternal life in God’s presence (Ephesians 1:7). The blood of Jesus Christ brings reconciliation between us and God (John 15:15; Romans 5:10). This very blood from the sacrifice that was made by Christ brings forth eternal life (2 Timothy 2:10). To partake in this Eternal Life, we must Sincerely Repent from our sins and start obeying the Key Teachings of Jesus Christ. Failing to do this will lead us into the Lake of Fire.
What The Bible Says About God
Isaiah 41:13 – “For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear;I will help you.”
Psalm 73:25 – “Whom have I in heaven but you?And earth has nothing I desire besides you.”
Joshua 1:9 – “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
Deuteronomy 4:29 – “But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find him if you seek him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
Zephaniah 3:17 – “The Lord your God is with you,the Mighty Warrior who saves.He will take great delight in you;in his love he will no longer rebuke you,but will rejoice over you with singing.”
1 John 4:16 – “And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.”
1 John 4:19 – “We love because He first loved us.”
2 Samuel 7:22 – “How great you are, Sovereign Lord! There is no one like you, and there is no God but you, as we have heard with our own ears.”
Philippians 4:13 – “I can do all this through him who gives me strength.”
Isaiah 25:1 – “Lord, you are my God;I will exalt you and praise your name,for in perfect faithfulness you have done wonderful things,things planned long ago.”
Psalm 31:3 – “Since you are my rock and my fortress,for the sake of your name lead and guide me.”
Psalm 56:3 – “When I am afraid, I put my trust in you.”
Group 1 – What The Bible Says About God
Isaiah 55:8 – “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,neither are your ways my ways,”declares the Lord.”
Galatians 6:7 – “Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.”
1 John 4:20 – “Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen.”
Isaiah 60:1 – “Arise, shine, for your light has come,and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.”
Hebrews 3:4 – “For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything.”
Psalm 34:8 – “Taste and see that the Lord is good;blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.”
Philippians 4:4 – “Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!”
1 Samuel 2:2 – “There is no one holy like the Lord;there is no one besides you;there is no Rock like our God.”
Exodus 20:12 – “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you.”
James 4:10 – “Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.”
Proverbs 8:35 – “For those who find me find life and receive favor from the Lord.”
1 John 4:12 – “No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.”
Group 2 – What The Bible Says About God
1 John 5:4 – “For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith.”
Ecclesiastes 11:5 – “As you do not know the path of the wind,or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb,so you cannot understand the work of God,the Maker of all things.”
Psalm 62:7 – “My salvation and my honor depend on God;he is my mighty rock, my refuge.”
Jeremiah 32:27 – “I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything too hard for me?”
Psalm 16:2 – I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord;apart from you I have no good thing.”
Psalm 138:8 – “The Lord will vindicate me;your love, Lord, endures forever—do not abandon the works of your hands.”
Deuteronomy 7:9 – “Know therefore that the Lord your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commandments.”
Isaiah 28:29 – “All this also comes from the Lord Almighty,whose plan is wonderful,whose wisdom is magnificent.”
Mark 12:30 – “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.”
Isaiah 40:8 – “The grass withers and the flowers fall,but the word of our God endures forever.”
Group 3 – What The Bible Says About God
Romans 8:28 – “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
Psalm 105:4 – “Look to the Lord and his strength;seek his face always.”
Psalm 124:8 – “Our help is in the name of the Lord,the Maker of heaven and earth.”
1 Timothy 2:5 – “For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.”
Revelation 1:8 – “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Psalm 27:4 – “One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek:that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.”
James 4:4 – “You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.”
1 John 4:8 – “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.”
Psalm 46:10 – He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;I will be exalted among the nations,I will be exalted in the earth.”
John 1:1 – “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
Philippians 2:11 – “And every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord,to the glory of God the Father.”
Group 4 – What The Bible Says About God
Psalm 33:18 – “But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him,on those whose hope is in his unfailing love.”
Genesis 50:20 – “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”
Ephesians 6:10 – “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.”
Romans 8:31 – “What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?”
1 John 4:13 – “This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.”
Psalm 90:2 – “Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world,from everlasting to everlasting you are God.”
2 Peter 3:8 – “But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.”
Proverbs 18:10 – “The name of the Lord is a fortified tower;the righteous run to it and are safe.”
1 John 4:11 – “Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
Psalm 127:1 – “Unless the Lord builds the house,the builders labor in vain.Unless the Lord watches over the city,the guards stand watch in vain.”
Ezekiel 38:23 – “And so I will show my greatness and my holiness, and I will make myself known in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the Lord.”
Group 5 – What The Bible Says About God
Jeremiah 23:24 – ““Who can hide in secret places so that I cannot see them?” declares the Lord.“Do not I fill heaven and earth?” declares the Lord.”
Revelation 21:3-4 – And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
Psalm 18:31 – “For who is God besides the Lord? And who is the Rock except our God?”
Zechariah 4:6 – So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty.”
Romans 8:16 – “The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.”
Psalm 67:7 – “May God bless us still,so that all the ends of the earth will fear him.”
Romans 11:33 – “Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God!How unsearchable his judgments,and his paths beyond tracing out!”
Deuteronomy 4:39 – “Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.”
Group 6 – What The Bible Says About God
Lamentations 5:19 – “You, Lord, reign forever;your throne endures from generation to generation.”
Isaiah 41:4 – “Who has done this and carried it through, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord—with the first of them and with the last—I am he.”
Zechariah 14:9 – “The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord, and his name the only name.”
Romans 8:37 – “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.”
Psalm 34:10 – “The lions may grow weak and hungry,but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing.”
Romans 10:13 – For, “Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Psalm 24:1 – “The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it,the world, and all who live in it.”
Romans 13:1 – “Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God.”
1 Corinthians 1:9 – “God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.”
John 17:3 – “Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent.”
Psalm 42:1 – “As the deer pants for streams of water,so my soul pants for you, my God.”
Group 7 – What Does The Bible Say About God?
Daniel 2:22 – “He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with him.”
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.”
Matthew 17:5 – “While he was still speaking, a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him!””
John 6:29 – Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.”
Psalm 33:12 – “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,the people he chose for his inheritance.”
1 John 3:24 – “The one who keeps God’s commands lives in him, and he in them. And this is how we know that he lives in us: We know it by the Spirit he gave us.”
Job 37:23 – “The Almighty is beyond our reach and exalted in power; in his justice and great righteousness, he does not oppress.”
Psalm 9:2 – “I will be glad and rejoice in you;I will sing the praises of your name, O Most High.”
Genesis 1:26 – Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
Genesis 1:27 – “So God created mankind in his own image,in the image of God he created them;male and female he created them.”
Group 8 – What Does The Bible Say About God?
1 Corinthians 2:10 – “These are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.”
Ezekiel 36:23 – “I will show the holiness of my great name, which has been profaned among the nations, the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the Lord, declares the Sovereign Lord, when I am proved holy through you before their eyes.”
Psalm 90:4 – “A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by,or like a watch in the night.”
Amos 9:6 – “He builds his lofty palace in the heavens and sets its foundation on the earth;he calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land—the Lord is his name.”
Hosea 13:4 – “But I have been the Lord your God ever since you came out of Egypt.You shall acknowledge no God but me,no Savior except me.”
Deuteronomy 6:4-5 – “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.”
2 Corinthians 13:14 – “May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.”
2 Samuel 22:32 – “For who is God besides the Lord? And who is the Rock except our God?”
Group 9 – What Does The Bible Say About God?
Leviticus 22:31 – “Keep my commands and follow them. I am the Lord.”
1 Timothy 1:17 – “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.”
