We’ve been exploring the doctrine of the Trinity for the past several newsletters. The Scriptures present to us a God who is one in essence, yet three in persons. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are the one, eternal God, and are equal in power and glory. We’ve looked at the first two persons of
Sometimes children can ask some of the deepest questions about God. I applaud anyone who takes up the task of teaching children because they can come up with things that absolutely stump us! The minds of children are deep! From the mouth of a child I have heard one of the most difficult questions one
How is it that God became man? How can it be that God, who is an infinite, eternal, and unchangeable spirit, become a man who is finite, temporal, and changeable with a body? Such questions have stretched the minds of the most brilliant philosophers and theologians to walk this earth, and to no avail. When
We have been examining the doctrine of the Trinity in recent newsletters. Having looked at the Trinity as a whole and at God the Father specifically, we will now draw our attention to the second person of the Godhead: God the Son. The Son of God bears a unique relationship with the Father. John the
In our last newsletter, we began an exploration into the doctrine of the Trinity, a doctrine that is at the core of Biblical Christianity. There is only one God, but this God eternally exists in three persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In this article, we will look at the first person
Back when I was in college, I had the opportunity to take two classes on world religions. In these classes we broke up several of the world’s religions into two categories. In the first class, we studied religions that are pantheistic (the belief that everything is divine) and polytheistic (the belief that there are multiple
Q: What is God? A: God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. Over the past several months, we have considered the various attributes of God displayed in the answer to question 4 of the Westminster Shorter Catechism. In this article, we will draw our
Q: What is God? A: God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. There are those who are among us who are particularly meticulous when it comes to grammar. When they read something with bad subject-verb agreement, or they hear some speak incorrectly, they take
Q: What is God? A: God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. What comes to your mind when you hear the word “justice?” I would imagine that many who hear that word think about the highest law court in our land: the Supreme Court
Q: What is God? A: God is a spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness and truth. If there was one attribute of God that you would say the church in America needs to reflect upon more, what would it be? Some may say that we need to reflect