Doctrine of God

• Studying theology overcome wrong ideas
• You grow spiritually. As we come to know Him more fully, we grow our relationship (trust / obey)

• Independence (He is self-sufficient - Acts 17)
• Unchangeable (He keeps promises - Malachi 3)
• Eternity (He is the end and the beginning - Psalm 90)
• Omnipresence (He is bigger / everywhere - 1 Kings 8)
• Unity (He has manyu attributes but is One)

We are physical (limited by body, time knowledge) -BUT He speaks our language and became human through Jesus Christ

We sin (sin blocks our relationship) - BUT He forgives us and He helps us to overcome sin

We are spiritual babies (we have to learn what life is) BUT He gives us wisdom / direction

• The Father sends the Son into the World
• The Son prays to the Father
• The HS intercedes before the Father for us
• John 1v1 & 17v24

• God is sovereign (Genesis 1v1)
• The Son is sovereign (John 1v1)
• The HS is omnipresence (John 3v5)

There is only One God to be worshipped - Isaiah 45v4-5

• Inner sense
• - Our ability to worship God pressuposes God (Acts 17v23)
• - Jesus Christr reveals God to us (John 14v6-9)

• Inner build knowledge
• - Through Creation (Genesis 1v27)
• - Through Nature (Romans 1v19-23)

• Cosmological - Everything in the universe has a cause, therefore the universe has a cause which leads only to God
• Teleological - Intelligent purpose (design) of the universe pressupposes an intelligent Creator
• Ontological - We know that God exist by thinking of Him
• Moral - There is a source of our sense of right and wrong

Making divine information acknowledged which has been partly or completely hidden or unknown.

God is not trying to prve himself

• Acts 17v23 (Human ability to worship)
• John 14v6-9 (Jesus Christ reveals God to us)

• Preservation (He maintains earth - by scientific laws) Collosians 1v17
• Agreement (He uses his creation for what it was created to do) Psalm 148v8
• Directs (He directs everything to fulfill its/his purpose) Genesis 37

• Because he's infinite and we are limited we can never fully understand him.
• (Psalm 145v3)
• (Psalm 147v5)
• (Psalm 139v6)