GOD: We have considered in the context of the course many features and characteristics about God. The Bible is His revelation to us by which all can come to know Him. His very name Yahweh indicates His purpose of deliverance in the meaning: ‘He who will be manifested in a multitude of mighty ones’. He will deliver the faithful descendants of Abraham whether Jew or those who become heirs with Abraham having “put on Christ” (Galatians 3:27).
There are three key traits of God’s being that we should understand from the Scriptures: God is
Omnipotent: Having all and unlimited power and unlimited authority!
Omniscient: All knowing!
Omnipresent: Present everywhere!
These three adjectives are descriptive of the unlimited power, presence and knowledge of God. It is difficult for human minds to understand God in these aspects is beyond our full comprehension. The creation of the heavens and the earth, the animals and man (from the dust of the ground), testify to the power that is God! The Scriptures tell us that he knows the number of hairs on our head, when a sparrow falls to the ground and events in advance of their appearance. There is no place we can go to hide from him as Jonah tried to do.
Yet in all this, He has revealed who He is in this book, the Bible. He requires that we be holy for He is holy as His word reveals: God is Light, God is Love, God is true, God is faithful, God is a consuming fire, and He is not ashamed to be called our God or our Father! The only way we can get to know the love of God is to read his word. The Bible is the means He chose to reveal Himself. He has revealed His attributes of love in Exodus 34:6,7. There is only one God and Father: Deuteronomy 6: 4.