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1. Study about God
LESSON # 1:
The Existence of God
LESSON # 2:
The Nature of God
LESSON # 3:
The Names of God
LESSON # 4:
The Trinity of God
LESSON # 5:
The Attributes of God
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2. The Existence of God
Introduction:
To begin our study in Bible doctrine, we ought to begin with God. We are constantly challenged by
atheists, sceptics and hecklers to prove that there is a God. God is far too great for us to fully understand.
He has no beginning and He has no end. There is no place where His presence is not felt.
The Bible asks in Job 11:7:
“Can you fathom the mysteries of God? Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?”
God lives in Heaven and He rules over the whole earth. The Bible tells us:
“This is what the Lord says: ‘Heaven is my throne and the earth is my foot-stool...”
(Isa. 66:1).
“God reigns over the nations; God is seated on his holy throne”
(Ps. 47:8)
It is difficult for natural man to believe in something that he cannot see, touch or feel,
I Corinthians 2:14
The problem for the Christian is solved the first verse of the Bible,
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth”
(Genesis 1:1)
The Bible is not a textbook that attempts to prove the existence of God – the Bible opens with a positive
fact that God does exist.
The Bible plainly states that it is the fool who denies the existence of God.
“The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God”.
Psalm 14:1
Anyone with any intelligence would acknowledge the evident fact of a living God.
The greatest proof apart from Scripture of the existence of God is our daily fellowship with Him in prayer. I
know that there is a God because I talked to Him today and He heard and answered the prayer of my heart
though it was only whispered silently.
(Alban Douglas)
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3. I. THE DEFINITION OF GOD
There is but one only living and true God, who is infinite in being and perfection, a most pure
spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions, immutable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible,
almighty, most wise, most holy, most free, most absolute, working all things according to the counsel of
his own immutable and most righteous will, for his own glory; most loving, gracious, merciful, long-
suffering, abundant in goodness and truth, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin; the rewarder of them
that diligently seek him; and with all most just and terrible in his judgments; hating all sin, and who will
by no means clear the guilty.
II. HOW DO WE KNOW THAT GOD EXIST?
a. Genesis 1:1
b. John 1:1
c. Revelation 1:8
Men have produced arguments for existence of God based on six kinds of evidence:
1. THE EVIDENCE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT
For everything that happens (the effect) there is something which causes it to happen (the cause).
For example, if there is a watch, somewhere there must be a watchmaker. The same argument is used of
the universe. The universe is; it exists. Therefore there must be someone who made the universe. That
someone must have been God.
2. THE EVIDENCE OF DESIGN OR PURPOSE IN THE UNIVERSE
This phrase refers to the evidence of design in nature, which shows us that there is a Designer. All
plant and animal life shows that there was One—God himself – who designed it all. But its purpose and
design show that there was a watch designer.
3. THE EVIDENCE OF THE IDEA OF PERFECTION
Man has an idea of a God who is absolute, or perfect in every way. Where did such an idea come
from? It could not have come from imperfect beings like ourselves. Therefore it must have come from
someone who is perfect in every way God must exist.
4. THE EVIDENCE OF THE NATURE OF MAN
In Genesis 1:26, God says he created man in “our image, in our likeness.” Man’s nature confirms
the claim of Genesis 1 tells us that God expressed himself, that he created, and that he saw that what he
had created was very good. Thus God is expressive, creative, perceptive, and evaluative, or moral. Two
more characteristics of God are reflected in man. God called his creatures by name, showing that he is
intelligent. Man, likewise, above all other creatures, names and classifies the things around him.
5. THE EVIDENCE OF HISTORY
The Bible is a historical record of the miraculous intervention of God in the lives of men. The best
evidence for the existence of God is the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.
6. THE EVIDENCE OF SCRIPTURE
The Bible does not begin by attempting to prove the existence of God; it assumes the existence of
God. The first words in the Bible simply say “In the beginning God…” Gen. 1:1; John 1:1; Rev. 1:8
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4. The Nature of God
WHAT IS GOD LIKE?
1. GOD IS THE CREATOR OF EVERYTHING
(Nehemiah 9:6)
2. GOD IS ALL-POWERFUL
(Rom. 9:19-21; I Chro. 29:11; Eph. 3:20)
3. GOD IS ALL-KNOWING
(Heb. 4:13; I Jn. 3:20)
4. GOD IS HOLY
(I Sam. 2:2)
5 GOD IS A SPIRIT
(John 4:24)
5. GOD IS A PERSON YOU CAN KNOW
(Jas. 4:8; Ps. 145:18)
6. GOD IS A LOVING FATHER
(I Jn. 3:1)
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5. The Names of God
The names of God are helpful in knowing more about the personality of God.
Hammond lists three categories of Hebrew names:
I. GENERAL NAMES
El (singular) has “strength” as its underlying thought.
It occurs some 250 times.
It occurs in phrases such as:
El Elyon - “The Most High God,” Gen. 14:18-22;
El Olam - “The Everlasting God,” Gen. 21:33; and
El Shaddai - “God Almighty,” Gen. 17:1.
1. Elohim (plural) occurs over 2,000 times and implies
“The God of Creation,” Providence,” and also “The Supreme Ruler.”
2. The name Adonai (plural), “Lord,” is used 280 times,
Adon (singular) is used 30 times, and Jah is used 49 times.
II. COVENANT NAMES
Jehovah (or Yahweh, which scholars believe to be the more accurate transliteration) is
God’s most frequently – used name in the Old Testament, and occurs some 7,000 times. It has special
significance to the Jews in relation to their covenants with God.
It means “The Self-Existing One”. (Exo. 3:14; Exo 6:1-10)
A. COMPOUND NAMES
In His redemptive relation to man, JEHOVAH has 7 COMPOUND NAMES which reveal Him
as meeting every need of man from his lost state and even to his physical well-being.
THESE ARE:
 JEHOVAH - JIREH: “The LORD will PROVIDE”… a sacrifice
(Genesis 22:13,14) and Christ was the offering provided for our complete redemption.
 JEHOVAH - NISSI: “The LORD our BANNER”… or “VICTOR” or “CAPTAIN”
(Exodus 17:8-15).
The enemy was Amalek, a type of the flesh, and the conflict that day stands for the conflict of
Galatians 5:17 – the war of the Spirit against the flesh. Victory was wholly due to divine help.
Also, it was when, by the cross, Christ triumphed over principalities and powers that He
provided for us, through the Atonement, the redemptive privilege of saying, “thanks be unto
God which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”
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6.  JEHOVAH – TSIDKENU: “The LORD our RIGHTEOUSNESS”…
(Jeremiah 23:6). He becomes our righteousness by bearing our sins on the cross; therefore
our redemptive privilege of receiving “the gift of righteousness” is an atonement blessing.
 JEHOVAH – RAAH: “The LORD my SHEPHERD”…
(Psalms 23). In Psalms 22, JEHOVAH makes peace by the blood of the cross; in
Psalms 23, JEHOVAH is shepherding his own who are in the world (John 10:27).
 JEHOVAH – SHALOM: “The LORD our PEACE”, or “The LORD send PEACE”…
(Judges 6:24). Almost the whole ministry of JEHOVAH finds expression and illustration
within this chapter.
- JEHOVAH HATES AND JUDGES SIN (v. 1-5)
- JEHOVAH LOVES AND SAVES SINNERS (v. 7-18),
BUT ONLY THROUGH SACRIFICE (v. 19-21).
This also reveals to us the redemptive privilege of having His peace. Accordingly Jesus
says “My peace I give unto thee.” This blessing is in the Atonement, because “the chastisement
of our peace was upon Him” when He “made peace by the blood of His cross.”
 JEHOVAH – SHAMMAH: “The LORD is THERE” or “PRESENT”, revealing to us the
redemptive privilege of enjoying His presence, who says, “Lo, I am with you always.” That
this blessing is provided by the Atonement is proven by the fact that we are “made nigh by the
blood of Christ.”
 JEHOVAH – RAPHA: “The LORD that HEALETH or “I AM the LORD that HEALETH
thee” or “I AM the Lord thy PHYSICIAN.” …. (Exodus 15:26) This name is given to reveal
to us our redemptive privilege to be healed. This privilege is purchased by the Atonement, for
Isaiah, in the redemptive chapter, declares, “Surely He hath borne our sickness and carried
our pains.”
The fact is, that the very first covenant God gave after the passage of the Red Sea,
which was so distinctively typical of our redemption, was the covenant of healing, and it was
at this time that God revealed Himself as our Physician, by the first redemptive and covenant
name,
JEHOVAH RAPHA, “I AM the LORD that Healeth thee.” This is not only a
promise, it is a statute and an ordinance.” And so, corresponding to this ancient ordinance,
we have, in the command of James 5:14, a positive ordinance of healing in Christ’s Name as
sacred and binding upon every church today as the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper and of
Christian Baptism.
Since JEHOVAH RAPHA is one of His redemptive Names, sealing the covenant of
healing, Christ, during his exaltation, could no more abandon His office of Healer than that
revealed by each of His 6 Redemptive names. Have any of the blessings which His
redemptive names reveal been withdrawn from this “better” dispensation?
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7. Trinity of God
Many people in the world do not believe in the Trinity. All Jews and Muslims, for example, believe that
God is an absolute unity. This is also true of some supposedly Christian sects such as the Jehovah’s Witnesses,
the Iglesia ni Cristo, the Mormons, and the Unitarians.
That the One God consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, is a Christian belief based on the
teaching of the Scripture as a whole, although no single passage teaches the Trinity explicitly. Let us look at the
evidence in the Scripture for the doctrine of the Trinity.
1. THE IMPLIED ARGUMENTS OF SCRIPTURE
A. The Name Elohim
Elohim is a noun, plural in form but singular in meaning when referring to the true God. Of course
this grammatical fact does not prove that God is a Trinity, but it does lend support to the doctrine of
the Trinity.
B. The Use of Plural Pronouns In The Creation Account
Many readers of the Scriptures are perplexed as they read, “Then God said, let us make man in our
image, in our likeness,” Gen. 1:26. If God is one, why is the plural from us used in this verse?
Verse 27 refers to God in the singular: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God
he created him”. The Jewish teachers said that the Lord must be referring to the angels who were with
him at the time of creation. But this cannot be, for God created man in his own image, and not in the
image of angels. The use of plural pronouns in these verses implies that the one God exists in trinity.
2. DIRECT ARGUMENTS OF SCRIPTURES
Although the Scripture does not use the term Trinity or teach the existence of the Trinity in a single
verse, it does teach that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are God.
A. “The Father” Is God!
“Yet for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live.”
“The Father of our spirits”; Jas. 1:17, “the Father of the heavenly lights”; Jn. 6:27 and Gal. 1:1; “God
the Father”; Gal. 1:3, “God our Father.” Clearly, “the Father” mentioned in these verses is God.
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8. B. “The Son” Is God
1. Evidence From the Old Testament
Isa. 9:6 states a prophecy concerning a “son” who was to be given, one who was to reign “on
David’s” throne… forever.” He is given several wonderful names, including “Mighty God.”
2. Evidence From The New Testament
Jn. 5:17-18 , Making himself equal with God.
Jn. 8:58 Before Abraham was born, I am!
Jn. 14:8-11 “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father”
Jn. 10:30-31 “I and the Father are one.
Jn. 1:1-3 “the Word is identified as God.
Jn. 1:14 “the Word is identified as the one who became flesh and lived for a while among us.”
This One is the one and only Son. Heb. 1:1-8 The strongest statements of the Deity of the Son.
c. The Holy Spirit Is God
The Holy Spirit is God it is clearly seen in the following three ways:
1. He Possesses The Nature of God - Heb. 9:14; I Cor. 2:10-11; Ps. 139:7-11
2. He Performs The Work of God - Gen. 1:2; II Pet. 1:21; Jn. 3:5
3. He Is Called “God” (Acts 5:3-4)
4.
The Bible teaches that the Father, the Son and Spirit are equally God. The Bible also teaches that
God is one. We conclude, then, God is a Trinity: three in one.
 Basis of the Doctrine of the Trinity
A. In the Baptism of Jesus in Matthew 3:13-17
B. The baptismal formula in Matthew 28:19
C. The benediction in 2 Corinthians 13:14
D. The creation of man uses plural terms Genesis 1:26
There is only one God, Deut. 6:4. Manifesting in three persons, God the Father, God the Son, God
the Holy Spirit, the same in essence, substance, power and authority.
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9. Attributes of God
1. THE NATURAL ATTRIBUTES
FATHER SON SPIRIT
OMNIPOTENCE OMNIPOTENCE OMNIPOTENCE
All powerful All powerful All powerful
Jer. 32:17
Heb. 1:3
Psa. 45:3; Phil. 3:21
Rev. 1:8
Luke 1:35;
Rom. 15:19
OMNISCIENCE OMNISCIENCE OMNISCIENCE
All Knowing All Knowing All Knowing
Acts 15:18
Heb. 1:3, I Cor. 2:10,11
John 16:30; 21:17 I Cor. 2:10,11
OMNIPRESENCE OMNIPRESENCE OMNIPRESENCE
All Present (everywhere) All Present (everywhere) All Present (everywhere)
Jer. 23:34
Eph. 1:23, Psa. 139:7
Matt. 18:20; 28:20 Psa. 139:7-13
IMMUTABLE IMMUTABLE IMMUTABLE
Never changes (eternal) Never changes (eternal) Never changes (eternal)
Heb. 3:12;
Mal. 3:6; James 1:17
Heb. 13:8;1:12
Isa.9:6; Mic. 5:2; Col. 1:17
Heb. 9:14
2. THE MORAL ATTRIBUTES
FATHER SON SPIRIT
HOLINESS HOLINESS HOLINESS
Rev. 4:8; 15:4
Acts 3:13; I John 3:20
Rev. 15:3,4;6:10 2 Peter 1:21; Roma 1:4
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE
Ezra 9:15; Jer. 12:1
Psalm 145:17
Heb. 6:10; I John 1:9
2 Tim. 4:8
John 16:7-11
Rom. 8:10
MERCYANDLOVING-KINDNESS MERCYANDLOVING-KINDNESS MERCYANDLOVING-KINDNESS
Psa. 103:8; Luke 6:36
Phil. 2:27; Psa. 31:10
2 Pet. 3:9; Isa 55:7
Jude 21; James 5:11
Rom. 5:3-5; John 15:26
Acts 9:31; 2 Cor. 1:3
LOVE (DIVINE) LOVE (DIVINE) LOVE (DIVINE)
John 3:16; 16:27
I John 4:8-18
Gal. 2:20; 2 Cor. 5:14 Gal. 5:22
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