Q&A part 3

GOD QUESTIONS

If God made people, how was God made?

Now this is the deepest question I think was asked. Besides the bible I took some information from the chapter on Goodness of God in Millard Erickson’s Christian Theology. I encourage you to read it.

Jesus tells us in John 4:24 that God is not matter or physical but spirit. Paul says in Acts 17:24 that God who made everything cannot be destroyed like everything He has made. Exodus 3:13-14 God simple says that He is. He IS God. There is no other explanation from God himself but that He just exists and Job chapters 38 and 39 reinforce it.

Both William Craig and Thomas Aquinas argue that for something to happen there must be a cause. They argued that God existed so ultimately following that logic God was put here somehow yet if God created cause and effect and time and space to help us out then it wasn’t here until he put it here so we do not know who created God and there is no evidence God was created from this argument.

Jeremiah chapter 10 says that people tried to make God but he didn’t speak or move. They made idols and verse 10 says opposed to being made that God just exists as the only God. He is the only true God not made but simply God said by Jesus in John 17:3. 1Thessalonians 1:9 and 1 John 4:20 once again show you that God is real not construction or imagined. Everything around us is artificial or made at one point. God is real. He is what he appears to be. Deep stuff! God just doesn’t act or do good. He is the definition of Good!

What inspired God to write the Bible?

Scholars or people who spend their whole life studying church and bible stuff use the word inspiration to talk about God the Holy Spirit’s influence on people who wrote the Bible. God wants to communicate truth to us as humans so we can have the best relationship with Him since that’s why He created us. That is called revelation. So, due to this revelation word, there is the best reason for the inspiration of God to write the Bible through certain people. God wrote the Bible so we could have a chance to live in paradise with the greatest person ever, God our dad, the son Jesus Christ, and hope and power through the Holy Spirit.

Why did God flood the earth and why did he choose Noah out of all the people in the world at the time?

People were very evil as Gen 6 says due to sin taking over everybody in Genesis 3. It took over their hearts, in the language of Hebrew in the bible means both heart and mind. So a guy named Peter in a book he wrote later in the bible in chapter 3 says that God waited for the flood in hope that more would have a relationship with Him. That is also why he hasn’t ended the world and there are no more chances because he doesn’t want anybody to perish. In fact Noah in the bible is said to be the same as Enoch that God just took to heaven one day but Noah didn’t get this so he could let the human race continue.

Does God have a name other than God?

God has different names. Yahweh, master, the highest Psalm 18:13, the holy one Psalm 71:22, mighty one Ps 50:1, God of god’s and Lord of lords Dt 10:17, light giver Gen 1:16, Father John 5:17, Judge Gen 18:25, redeemer Job 19:25, savior Luke 1:47, strength Ps 22:19, God of seeing Gen 16:13, Righteous One Ps 7:9.

Crazy stuff. What do you need to call him? He’s God our creator and leader (father), savior (Jesus), hope and power (Holy Spirit). When you pray to God you pray to God 3 in one and when you address one you address them all. They did this to show the ultimate love and communication in relationship and there is no other relationship better than the trinity. We talk to and listen and read about God in the Bible and that is his name…God. Take some time and just talk to the God who loves you, is strong, gives light, gives justice, saves and renews, is right, sees everything and meets the highest standard.