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topic_name = God | | topic_name = God | | ||
| − | subtopics = [[Character of God]] - [[God is the | + | subtopics = [[Character of God]] - [[God is the creator]], [[God is love]], [[God is holy]], [[God is forgiving]] |
* [[Trinity]] - [[God the Father]], [[Jesus Christ]], [[Holy Spirit]] | * [[Trinity]] - [[God the Father]], [[Jesus Christ]], [[Holy Spirit]] | ||
* [[Names of God]] | | * [[Names of God]] | | ||
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| − | God | + | God is the central being. He created the earth and he created man in his own image. God is full of mercy and love. Millions of people in the world confess God as their Lord and saviour. He is a personal being, who is three in one - [[God the Father|Father]], [[Jesus Christ|Son]] and [[Holy Spirit]]. God stands ready to come into any person's life when that person confesses him and repent - this is when you are [[born again]]. |
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==Main article== | ==Main article== | ||
===[[Character of God]]=== | ===[[Character of God]]=== | ||
| − | God's | + | God's nature is beyond our understanding. He gives life to all and he is the author of love and forgiveness. He is completely holy and without any evil. |
===[[Trinity]]=== | ===[[Trinity]]=== | ||
| − | The Trinity is God | + | The Trinity is the Christian [[doctrine]] describing the triune nature of God. The doctrine asserts the following: there is one and only one God; the Father is God, [[Jesus]] the Son is God, and the [[Holy Spirit]] is God; the one God eternally exists in three distinct persons. |
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Sri Aurobindo, in ''Thoughts and Aphorisms'' | Sri Aurobindo, in ''Thoughts and Aphorisms'' | ||
| − | : A God who | + | : A God who cannot smile could not have created this humorous universe. |
Robertson Davies in ''Conversations'' | Robertson Davies in ''Conversations'' | ||
| − | : A | + | : A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself. |
Albert Einstein | Albert Einstein | ||
| − | : | + | : Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish |
Benjamin Franklin | Benjamin Franklin | ||
| − | : God | + | : God heals, and the doctor takes the fee. |
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| + | [[C.S. Lewis]] | ||
| + | : God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. | ||
| + | : God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. | ||
| + | : If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying. | ||
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| + | Galileo Galilei (1564 ~ 1642) | ||
| + | : I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them. | ||
Yiddish proverb, | Yiddish proverb, | ||
| − | : | + | : If God lived on earth, people would break his windows. |
J.R.R. Tolkien | J.R.R. Tolkien | ||
| − | : | + | : If you do not believe in a personal God the question: `What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable. |
Thomas Jefferson | Thomas Jefferson | ||
| − | : | + | : It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. |
Immanuel Kant | Immanuel Kant | ||
: Reason can never prove the existence of God. | : Reason can never prove the existence of God. | ||
| + | Emily Dickinson | ||
| + | : They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Catherine Doherty | ||
| + | : With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Unknown source | ||
| + | : You can live without God, but you better not die without him. | ||
| + | |||
| + | [[Romans 5]]:7-8 | ||
| + | : {{web_verse|romans|5|7}} {{web_verse|romans|5|8}} | ||
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| + | [[1 John 4:16]] | ||
| + | : God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. | ||
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| + | [[1 John 1:5]] | ||
| + | : God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. | ||
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| + | [[Exodus 3:14]] (King James Version) | ||
| + | : God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you. | ||
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| + | [[Isaiah 45]]:5-7 (King James Version) | ||
| + | : I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. | ||
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| + | Spike Milligan | ||
| + | : And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said he would have to wait until Thursday to be connected. | ||
| + | |||
| + | Woody Allen | ||
| + | : If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. | ||
| + | : How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? | ||
==Links== | ==Links== | ||
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* [http://www.theopedia.com/God Theopedia - God] | * [http://www.theopedia.com/God Theopedia - God] | ||
| − | {{returnto}} [[Christianity | + | {{returnto}} [[Christianity]] |
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God is the central being. He created the earth and he created man in his own image. God is full of mercy and love. Millions of people in the world confess God as their Lord and saviour. He is a personal being, who is three in one - Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God stands ready to come into any person's life when that person confesses him and repent - this is when you are born again.
Main article
Character of God
God's nature is beyond our understanding. He gives life to all and he is the author of love and forgiveness. He is completely holy and without any evil.
Trinity
The Trinity is the Christian doctrine describing the triune nature of God. The doctrine asserts the following: there is one and only one God; the Father is God, Jesus the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God; the one God eternally exists in three distinct persons.
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Quotes
Sri Aurobindo, in Thoughts and Aphorisms
- A God who cannot smile could not have created this humorous universe.
Robertson Davies in Conversations
- A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.
Albert Einstein
- Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish
Benjamin Franklin
- God heals, and the doctor takes the fee.
- God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
- God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.
- If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
Galileo Galilei (1564 ~ 1642)
- I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them.
Yiddish proverb,
- If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
J.R.R. Tolkien
- If you do not believe in a personal God the question: `What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.
Thomas Jefferson
- It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
Immanuel Kant
- Reason can never prove the existence of God.
Emily Dickinson
- They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Catherine Doherty
- With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.
Unknown source
- You can live without God, but you better not die without him.
Romans 5:7-8
- God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
- God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
Exodus 3:14 (King James Version)
- God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
Isaiah 45:5-7 (King James Version)
- I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else. I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Spike Milligan
- And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said he would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
Woody Allen
- If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
- How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?
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