In a study of the attributes in nature of God, man’s finite minds cannot fully grasp the immensity of these attributes, no matter how long they study. But, in the Bible, there are certain passages that present the nature of God to man. In Psalm 139 the psalmist, David, clearly presents three of the attributes in the nature of God, His omniscience, His omnipresent, and His omnipotence.
The first attribute presented in Psalm 139 is omniscience. Throughout the Psalm, David is constantly reminding the reader that God is omniscient. In the first six verses the psalmist compiles a list of thing that God knows about man. The chapter starts by saying, “O lord, thou hast searched me, and known me.” Then David writes that God knows everything, from
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It should convey the thought that the God is the Christian’s closest friend. Out of the millions of people in this world God knows each person intimately. God also knows what course would beneficial for an individual to take. “God knows all those things, and yet, choses or allows man to make their own decisions. This should give Christians great comfort, while going through the events of life.” The psalmist is very open with what is being written in the psalm the words describe the awe at the immensity of a God who knows all things would be personally interested in the affairs man. “This is marvelous indeed, but the thought that fills my heart with glad wonder and brings God close to me is the assurance that He is interested in me as an individual” . Indeed there is a great comfort in knowing that God, who knows man’s depravity and carnal nature, has and will, always be pursuing a relationship with every individual person. Omniscience is a hard concept for humans to grasp the psalmist even wrote, “Such knowledge is too high and difficult for me.” But, the psalmist did not try to explain all of the mysteries of God, it would have been an impossible project. Instead by the way the psalmist composed the chapter, one understands, “the text is interested in strengthening the psalmist’s relationship to God by reflecting on God’s being and acting towards the psalmist.” Through this contemplation the psalmist begins to rejoice in God. …show more content…
This last attribute, “means that God is all-powerful and able to do anything consistent with his own nature.” In the last part of this psalm God is presented as the all-powerful God that created the author of the psalm. “Even before a baby is born, God is at work in the mother 's womb putting together that amazingly complex combination of cells and nerves and bones and organs that makes him live.” Not only does God create and form a child but that child is “fearfully and wonderfully” made. There are no mistakes in any of God’s creation. This is very comforting for Christians, “God the weaver and potter formed the poet, shaped him in the mother’s womb. God saw him before he was born, as the embryo took shape in the mother’s body.” When the psalmist wrote about the fact that God not only created the universe; but also created man. “He is overcome by the thought that the Creator of the universe is also His personal Creator that He designed and fashioned every part into a mysterious whole.” As Christians we see that all of God’s attributes feed and work off of each other. It is amazing for Christians to be able to see how God works in the lives of his people. This should make us realize that we can come to God with our prayers and know that the answer will be what we need and will be provided even if the answer is no. “It is
When speaking about God, we naturally tend to give God characteristics or attributes that otherwise would be considered un proper. Two approaches that we use when speaking about God are Analogical and Metaphorical. Analogical and Metaphorical approaches are all about giving attribution to thing, in this case God. There are three predications, univocal, equivocal, and analogy. The univocal approach talks about the same term for different subjects that have the same exact meaning. The equivocal approach takes the same term, but it has a different subject and meaning. An analogy is a comparison of two things, in this case God is going to be compared to different things. The analogical approach is also called proper proportionality. When speaking about God in the analogical (proper proportionality) approach, we use the same term, but a different subject. For the metaphorical approach when speaking about God, we compare God to something and give him characteristics that he would not normally have. For example, when talking about proper proportionality, I may say that God is heroic. Now God is heroic may seem simple, but if I replace God with the word George Washington, now I have George Washington is heroic. While George Washington may have been heroic, comparing him to God using the same term gives me a different proportion. Now when I talk about the Metaphorical approach of God, I am ...
In order to make sense of these inherently opposite features, we must seek a higher authority and focus on God’s beauty, mercy, love, and grace. Our God, who is the creator of the world, has a plan for us all and intends for us to seek out His will. When we look around us and see that God created and feeds the sparrow just as he created and feeds us, we can begin to understand God’s will and His purpose for us. The entire enormity of this world and what God created becomes clearer. God seeks a relationship with us. There are times when reading the Bible, a passage or verse may seem too confusing or unrelatable in our current situation, although a God who created nature and everything in it always reveals the truth in His time for His plan for
However, each writer conveys the same message by providing the reader separate accounts of God’s works. In Taylor’s “From God’s Determinations”, Taylor explains how God is the creator of all things. He explains that he created the Earth, the sun, the moon, and the overall universe. In short, Taylor believes that God is the grand architect of his reality. From the information that is provided, one can infer that God, who is a supernatural being, has played a huge role in his life. According to Taylor’s writing, God is probably the one who Taylor believe, is responsible for breathing the gift of life into him in the first
The. His existence is seen as simply another property of his being. Just like omnipotence and omnipresent are the properties of the. One example that has been used to explain this is a triangle. The sand is a triangle.
to you. He goes on to tell us that God perceives every object all of
Psalm 89 of the Book of Psalms, advocates the message of consequentialism, foreground by man’s relationship with God, with direct lin...
Attributes usually attributed to God are that he is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. Descartes suggest that existence is one of God’s attributes. Mersenne argues against this point by stating that:
Throughout the Bible God can be represented in a number of different ways. In some chapters of the Bible God can be found to be a compassionate, loving God, who would do anything for his people. To contradict this, in other chapters of the Bible God can be found trying to instill fear into people so that they believe in him, or do what he wants of them. In both instances it shows how different God can be seen and why believers can have doubts about how God really is.
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...so holds all things in his power, so rules by his authority and will, so governs by his wisdom, that nothing can befall except he determine it. Moreover, it comforts him to know that he has been received into God's safekeeping and entrusted to the care of his angels, and that neither water, nor fire, nor iron can harm him, except so far as it pleases God as governor to give them occasion. Thus indeed the psalm sings: "For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. Under his wings will he protect you, and in his pinions you will have assurance; his truth will be your shield. You will not fear the terror of night, nor the flying arrow by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at midday" (Calvin 224).
Taylor then describes God as soft, gentle, feminine and has an eye for beautiful things and great designs. Taylor imagines that God is both male and female, and that he or she resides in all human endeavors and not only found in heaven, but in all objects of nature and of human construction. This evidence shows of a twofold consciousness. Taylor sees God through the interplay of the masculine and the feminine, the sacred and the profane, the temporal and the eternal, and the conscious and the unconscious
Today’s culture is one where people like to do as little work as possible. Even when it comes to reading our own scripture, The Holy Words of God, a lot of people like to look up one verse and reference it to something without knowing what the rest of the passage says. Psalms 109 is no exception, it is one the more widely misused passages as of late. A popular verse from Psalms 109 is verse 8 which reads “Let his days be few; and let another take his office”, this is seen in reference to our current president, but what people fail to realize is what else David is actually praying. This paper is going to go through Psalms 109 and unpack it verse by verse to show the true meaning of what David was praying and to give us a new look at how to pray.
The factual nature of God (given that He exists as the First Cause) is at all times argued by most Christians. Moreover numerous questions arise on the nature of God. We all know that, at some point we will actually die; yet, we consistently refuse the causes operating within ourselves that looks into the real result of what comes after a person loses his or her life. It is far simpler for humankind to agree that, they will depart to a secure home in Heaven and will be pardoned all their sins by a supreme being, rather than to query on the existence of the extremely all-powerful being. Luckily, some of us usually query this existence and the development of humankind; in addition to, the spiritual lessons obtained from our mothers and fathers, community and religion. This essay investigates the two logical justifications for and against the nature of God; in accordance to opinions of some exceptional researchers and philosophers. Through two classical arguments for God; the ontological argument and the teleological argument, I will show that there is no adequate evidence or extensive justifications for the true nature of God.
The nature of God differs in every religion. Some religions have one, many, or even no God that they worship. However, no matter who or what they worship, there is always a spiritual aspect to their belief system. These spirits play a key role in influencing their actions in their everyday life.