These pages are designed for use to aid discipleship among Christians through individual Bible study, Cell groups, Home groups, or for meeting one to one. If you wish, you could use the questions, while leaving the group to choose their own translation of the Bible.
God is first and foremost our creator. This gives Him an incredible place of authority in our lives for surely any creator has rights over their creation. God however treats us not as a dominating dictator but as a loving Father. God is Father.
There are many who ask the question who made God? This question puts us in time and space, but God is beyond the dimensions of time and space. These are mere trappings of His creation. He has no creator, no beginning and no end. When He introduced Himself to Moses, He called Himself ‘I Am’ or ‘I Am who I Am’ - Thus His name in Hebrew - Yahweh.
God who is greater than any of us is also somewhat difficult to understand. Just as we feel like we are getting the hang of Him, He acts in an unexpected way and perplexes us again. We seek Him, and understand Him in part, but He is a God of Mystery.
God is very clear about His character and what He values. He shows us these things in the Bible. Two characteristics that stand out are His Righteousness and His Justice. He lives this way and He longs to see these character qualities in us His children as well.
Another characteristic is His Holiness. This character quality is very important to us for it indicates that God is totally trustworthy. Since He is holy we can depend on Him to do as He says and not to change the rules on us for some personal advantage. Holy
This section focuses on the who of God, but the next section ‘Know God’ goes on to speak of what He does, His love, His knowledge, ...
Finally it is worth pointing out that Jesus is the one who reveals the Father since He is the image of the invisible God.
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