> [!title|noicon] **The Nature of God**
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✏ God is Eternal, ever-Present:
- [Exodus 3:14](Exodus%203.md#^14)
- [Psalm 90:2](Psalm%2090.md#^2)
- [Isaiah 46:9](Isaiah%2046.md#^9), [10](Isaiah%2046.md#^10)
✏ He Is the Creator from before the beginning:
- [Genesis 1:1](Genesis%201.md#^1)
- [John 1:1](John%201.md#^1), [2](John%201.md#^2), [3](John%201.md#^3)
✏ God created all things by His Word (by Christ, who Is the Word in the flesh, the God-man):
- [Psalm 33:6](Psalm%2033.md#^6); [148:5](Psalm%20148.md#^5)
- [Hebrews 11:3](Hebrews%2011.md#^3)
- [2 Peter 3:5](2%20Peter%203.md#^5)
✏ God created all things for His pleasure:
- [Revelation 4:11](Revelation%204.md#^11)
✏ God is the very Essence and Definition of Love and Eternal Life:
- [1 John 4:8](1%20John%204.md#^8), [16](1%20John%204.md#^16)
✏ God Himself alone is good:
- [Mark 10:18](Mark%2010.md#^18)
- [Genesis 1:10](Genesis%201.md#^10), [12](Genesis%201.md#^12), [18](Genesis%201.md#^18), [21](Genesis%201.md#^21), [25](Genesis%201.md#^25), [31](Genesis%201.md#^31)
✏ The Trinity, the Triune God:
- [Genesis 1:1](Genesis%201.md#^1) ('God' is *Elohim* in the original language, a plural word to denote the Trinity)
- [Genesis 1:26](Genesis%201.md#^26); [3:22](Genesis%203.md#^22); [11:7](Genesis%2011.md#^7) (God speaks within the Godhead)
- [Matthew 28:19](Matthew%2028.md#^19)
- [2 Corinthians 13:14](2%20Corinthians%2013.md#^14)
- [1 John 5:7](1%20John%205.md#^7)
- The Holy Spirit expressly speaks:
- [Acts 13:2](Acts%2013.md#^2); [28:25](Acts%2028.md#^25)
- [Hebrews 3:7](Hebrews%203.md#^7), [8](Hebrews%203.md#^8), [9](Hebrews%203.md#^9), [10](Hebrews%203.md#^10), [11](Hebrews%203.md#^11)
- [Revelation 2:7](Revelation%202.md#^7)
- The Father and the Son send the Holy Spirit:
- [John 14:26](John%2014.md#^26); [15:26](John%2015.md#^26); [16:7](John%2016.md#^7)
- [Acts 2:33](Acts%202.md#^33)
- The Holy Spirit teaches and glorifies *Christ*, not Himself, through the Word:
- [John 15:26](John%2015.md#^26); [16:13](John%2016.md#^13), [14](John%2016.md#^14)
✏ God commonly cares for the unsaved as well as the elect. His goodness and blessings are a witness which all the more condemns the unsaved:
- [Luke 6:35](Luke%206.md#^35)
- [Acts 14:16](Acts%2014.md#^16), [17](Acts%2014.md#^17)
- [Romans 10:21](Romans%2010.md#^21)
✏ God will judge the earth in righteousness:
- [Psalm 96:13](Psalm%2096.md#^13), [98:9](Psalm%2098.md#^9)
- [Acts 17:31](Acts%2017.md#^31)
✏ God shall surely come:
- [Psalm 50:3](Psalm%2050.md#^3), [102:16](Psalm%20102.md#^16)
✏ God commands us to repent:
- [Mark 6:12](Mark%206.md#^12)
- [Acts 3:19](Acts%203.md#^19)
✏ God Himself saves, He alone is Savior:
- [Isaiah 59:16](Isaiah%2059.md#^16), [20](Isaiah%2059.md#^20)
- [Hosea 13:4](Hosea%2013.md#^4)
- [Jonah 2:9](Jonah%202.md#^9)
✏ What God says (speaks) absolutely comes to pass:
- [Isaiah 55:11](Isaiah%2055.md#^11)
- [Ezekiel 12:28](Ezekiel%2012.md#^28)
- Just as He *spoke*, “'Let there be light:’ and there was light.” Compare with all the days of creation: [Gen 1:3](Genesis%201.md#^3), [7](Genesis%201.md#^7), [9](Genesis%201.md#^9), [11](Genesis%201.md#^11), [15](Genesis%201.md#^15), [24](Genesis%201.md#^24) and [30](Genesis%201.md#^30).
✏ God is the same in the New Testament as in the Old Testament. Some attempt to say that God is no longer a God of Judgment in the New Testament:
- [Acts 5:1](Acts%205.md#^1), [2](Acts%205.md#^2), [3](Acts%205.md#^3), [4](Acts%205.md#^4), [5](Acts%205.md#^5), [6](Acts%205.md#^6), [7](Acts%205.md#^7), [8](Acts%205.md#^8), [9](Acts%205.md#^9), [10](Acts%205.md#^10), [11](Acts%205.md#^11)
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Tags: #Bible_Speaks_for_Itself