The churches of Christ Salute you. Romans 16: 16

The   Knowledge  of      the True  God

 

Does God Exist ? If so, Who is this God ?

                                           The Relationship of the Divinity

                                                 1 Corinthians 8:6

1 John 1:3 Divinitty.jpgJohn 14:17        

(1 Cor. 8:6)  The  Father    

(I John 1:3)     The  Son     

The  Holy Spirit  (John 14:17;Matthew 28:19; 2Corinthians 13:14;

1 John 5:7)

 

It is more reasonable  to believe in a Beginning set in motion by God who is all powerful creator, than to believe in the eternity of dead matter and mindless energy. By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, And all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. He gathers the waters of the seas together as a heap; He lays up the deep in storehouses. Let all the earth fear the Lord; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast.(Hebrews 11:3; Psalm 33:6-9) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.(Genesis 1:1) And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.(Genesis 2:7)  Be it known to you that without the word of God , men will never know the will of God. People must realize that it is the living God who created man with 200 bones, 500 muscles and 2000 ligaments. Men have learnt them only counting.

 

The Bible consist of 66 books is the history of God's creation and relationship of God and Man. (Genesis 2:4) It tells us that God created heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1) Before the mountains even the greatest and tallest Mount Everest, there was God. (Psalm 90:2) The Bible opens and gives its account  with God. We are wise to recognize that there is living God. (Psalm 14:1)  Can we make a  search for a person entirely void of conception of God  if we find him , be assured that he is but a few degrees removed from the brutes. This living God created man and woman out of dust. (Genesis 2:7) It is this God who glued man and woman together in marriage till the death parts. (Genesis 2:24-25; Matthew 19:4-6)) Thus we arrive at the beginning of wonderful marriage institution and establishment of home. The conception of family began to take root in the hearts of men. (Genesis 4:1) This wonderful and happy realization of family was destroyed when Cain killed his own brother Abel through the guidance of Satan. Eve, Adam and Cain did not realize that truth and honesty have their sources in the bosom of God and their voices when heard bring harmony and love to the world. Consequence of their wrong motives, all human being had to suffer. The disobedience of our first parent Adam and Eve brought the tragedy and turmoil even death into the world. The wickedness of man grew in the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. (Genesis 6:5) The contagious diseases of conception of evil spread rapidly into the hearts of men. Since then almost all people had lived so long with duplicity and deceit that their spiritual compass was no longer functioning correctly. 

 

The Bible teaches that there is one God, He is consisted of three persons. This is a doctrine of special revelation, a doctrine that is not revealed in nature and that could not be discovered by human reason.  The Bible asserted in affirmative : "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (Genesis 1:1; Psalms 19:1)  "Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." This is the word of our Lord Jesus Christ. (Matthew 28:19) and Paul puts it in this way :" The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all." (2 Corinthians 13:14) God is one in His essential being, but in this oneness being three persons called: Father, son and Holy Spirit. They are rather three modes or forms in which the divine essence exists. For example, man is made of three modes in our essential being, that is body, soul and spirit. Water is made of two forms in its essential material, that is H2O and another example of water is, liquid, solid(ice) and vapour or mist. Godhead or the supreme divinity is found in Acts 17:29, Romans 1:20, Colossians 2:9. "Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man's device."(Acts 17:29) "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse." (Romans 1:20) "For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead bodily."   (Colossains 2:9)   The real mystery of the divinity consists in this that the three persons are one in their essential being. This doctrine is one of the great mystery of faith and as such is far beyond our human comprehension.  "As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all." (Ecclessiastes 11:5) "The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law."  (Deuteronomy 29:29)

GODHEAD is an old English term that is a synonym for God, with an emphasis on that which makes the DEITY essentially one (Rom. 1:20; Col. 2:9). The apostle Paul used the term to show the contrast between God's sinless nature and the corrupt character of human beings and their tendencies toward idolatry. In Romans 1:20 Paul used the term Godhead to describe what mankind ought to see in nature as a result of God's creative handiwork—"His eternal power and Godhead," or "Deity." This entire passage in Romans describes how the human mind fails to understand the exalted Godhead because of its sinful rebellion and distortion of truth. In the Colossians passage Paul declared that in Christ "dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily" (Col. 2:9), in contrast to the "tradition of men" (Col. 2:8). In the Son of God who took on human form, the essential quality and character of God are wholly present. This was Paul's way of emphasizing that Jesus is not a mere "divine man" like the heroes of the Greco-Roman world, but truly God—one of the member of the Godhead or God Himself in human form. (Philippians 2:5-11) "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made." (John 1:1-3) "And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth." (John 1:14)  "Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." (Phil.2:6-8) "But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a scepter of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom." (Heb.1:8) Let us open our hearts so that we may understand His words. May God our Father bless us as we strive to understand Him and His work. May we know that nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

"I'm after mercy, not religion. I'm here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders." says the Lord Jesus Christ our saviour and master of our lives. And again He bids us saying : " stand up for me against world opinions and I'll stand up for you before my Father in heaven. If you turn tail and run, do you think I'll cover for you ?"