God in Christianity
In Christianity, one way people think of God is as a being that made everything and lives forever. The Christian Bible speaks of God as one who is, who speaks, who sees, hears, acts, and loves. Christians believe that God has a will and is a kind, all powerful being.
Some Christians believe God to be immanent (with and inside all things). Others believe he will be immanent later. Most believe he is also transcendent (outside space and time, so he is unable to be changed by forces inside the universe).[1]
Trinitarians see the Christian God as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. They say that God is one being that lives forever, who is inside and beyond nature. All Christian denominations say that God is personal to humans and to himself. Most of the Christians believe that God is a spirit.
Names for God
In the Hebrew Bible, God is referred to by the personal name YHWH, which commonly stylized a Yahweh. The name YHWH is sometimes Latinized as Jehovah, especially by Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons.
God seen by people
God is not seen often by people in the Bible.
God is seen:
- By Adam and Eve to give them rules
- By Adam and Eve to punish them for breaking the rules
- By Moses as a burning bush
- By Moses as a pillar of flames
Referencing
- ↑ Machen, J. Gresham. God Transcendent. Banner of Truth publishers, 1998. ISBN 0851513557
God In Christianity Media
A folio from Papyrus 46 containing a copy of 2 Corinthians 11:33–12:9. This folio dates to between 175 and 225 AD.
The Tetragrammaton YHWH, the name of God written in Hebrew, old church of Ragunda, Sweden
Use of the symbolic Hand of God in the Ascension from the Drogo Sacramentary, c. 850
God the Father with His Right Hand Raised in Blessing, with a triangular halo representing the Trinity, Girolamo dai Libri c. 1555
God the Father on a throne, Westphalia, Germany, late 15th century
An angel blows the "last trumpet", as in 1 Corinthians 15:52, Langenzenn, Germany, 19th century
The earliest known depiction of the Trinity, Dogmatic Sarcophagus, 350 AD Vatican Museums.
