What is man?
Man was made in the image of God, that is he shared in some of God’s characteristics. However there are characteristics that he didn’t share for example
The Godhead of God
Qualities
Unchangeableness
Self existence
Infinity
EternityPowers of God
Almightiness
Omnipresence
OmnisciencePerfections of God
Holiness
Love
Mercy
Truthfulness
Faithfulness
Goodness
Patience
Justice.
J.I.Packer notes in his book Knowing God, that the Westminster shorter Catechism asked the question ‘what is God? The answer was taught both to children and adults and all adult members where expected to know the answer as follows.
‘God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, unchangeable in [...]
Introduction and Summary
So far we have only looked at the relationship between God and the good news. We have looked at the relationship between scripture and the good news and we have looked at the ‘required response’ of the good news. We have not actually looked at something of the character of the God of [...]
What is good about the good news?
The second issue that arose was the question, ‘what is good about the good news?’
Not only is God the revealer of good news, but the good news is the revealer of God! The good news is that God has chosen to reveal himself through his Son the Lord Jesus [...]
Background
The key books (and chapters) of the bible that have informed much of this material is the following.
Romans
Galatians
Ephesians
Matt (chapter 5)
Luke (chapter 15)
2 Peter (chapter 1)
In regards to the material dealing with The Knowledge of God, the following books are excellent and deal with the subject more fully.
Systematic Theology by Wayne Grudem (an in depth reference [...]
