Showing posts with label God. Show all posts
Showing posts with label God. Show all posts

Thursday, August 16, 2007

God our Creator

In this post, I will continue my series on the basics of the Christian faith by presenting the views that the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith (BCF) has on the nature of God as Creator. Here is the BCF's Chapter 4 "Creation" with Scripture proofs.

Chapter 4: Creation

4.1 In the beginning it pleased God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, [1] to create the world and all things in it, both visible and invisible, [2] in six days, [3] and all very good. [4] This was a demonstration of the glory of his eternal power, wisdom, and goodness. [5]

  1. Hebrews 1:2 John 1:2-3 Genesis 1:2 Job 26:13 Job 33:4
  2. Genesis 1:1 John 1:2 Colossians 1:16
  3. Genesis 2:1-3 Exodus 20:8-11
  4. Genesis 1:31 Ecclesiastes 7:29 Romans 5:12
  5. Romans 1:20 Jeremiah 10:12 Psalms 104:24 Psalms 33:5-6 Proverbs 3:19 Acts 14:15-16

4.2 After God had made all other creatures, he created human beings, male and female, with reasoning and immortal souls, making them fitted for that life for God for which they were created. [1] They were made in the image of God, with knowledge, righteousness, and true holiness. [2] They had the law of God written in their hearts, and the power to fulfil it; yet they also had the possibility of transgressing, and were left to the liberty of their own changeable wills. [3]

  1. Genesis 1:27 Genesis 2:7 James 2:26 Matthew 10:28 Ecclesiastes 12:7
  2. Genesis 1:26-27 Genesis 5:1-3 Genesis 9:6 Ecclesiastes 7:29 1 Corinthians 11:7 James 3:9 Colossians 3:10 Ephesians 4:24
  3. Romans 1:32 Romans 2:12a,14-15 Genesis 3:6 Ecclesiastes 7:29 Romans 5:12

4.3 Apart from the law written in their hearts, they received a command not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. While they kept this commandment they were happy in their fellowship with God, and had dominion over all other creatures. [1]

  1. Genesis 1:26,28 Genesis 2:17


Related websites:

Answers in Genesis








Creation Museum

Creation Research Society









Related articles and audios :



John MacArthur's New Series on Creation: "The Battle for the Beginning" This is John's latest series on Creation and is really one of his best series ever!

"Creation: Believe It or Not (Part 1)" (Selected Scriptures)
"Creation: Believe It or Not (Part 2)" (Selected Scriptures)
"God: Creator and Redeemer" (Selected Scriptures)
"The How, Why, and When of Creation (Part 1)" (Genesis 1:1)
"The How, Why, and When of Creation (Part 2)" (Genesis 1:1)
"Creation Day 2" (Genesis 1:6-8)
"Creation Day 3" (Genesis 1:9-13)
"Creation Day 4" (Genesis 1:14-19)
"Creation Day 5" (Genesis 1:20-23)
"Creation Day 6Part 1" (Genesis 1:24-26)
"Creation Day 6Part 2" (Genesis 1:26-27)
"Creation Day 6Part 3" (Genesis 1:26-31)
"The 'Rest' of Creation" (Genesis 2:1-3)
"The Creation of Man" (Genesis 2:4-7)
"Man in the Garden of God" (Genesis 2:8-17)
"The Creation of Woman" (Genesis 2:18-25)
"What is Sin?" (Genesis 3:1-7)
"The Breadth and Depth of Sin" (Genesis 3:1-7)
"The Origin of Evil" (Genesis 3:1-7)
"The Fall of Man--Part 1" (Genesis 3:1-5)
"The Fall of Man--Part 2" (Genesis 3:6-7)
"Confrontation in Eden" (Genesis 3:8-13)
"The Curse on the Serpent--Part 1" (Genesis 3:14-15)
"The Curse on the Serpent--Part 2" (Genesis 3:14-15)
"The Curse on the Woman--Part 1" (Genesis 3:16)
"The Curse on the Woman--Part 2" (Genesis 3:16)
"The Curse on the Man--Part 1" (Genesis 3:17-19)
"The Curse on the Man--Part 2" (Genesis 3:17-19)
"The Promise of Redemption--Part 1" (Genesis 3:20-21)
"The Promise of Redemption--Part 2" (Genesis 3:20-24)
"Cain: The Portrait of a Doomed Sinner--Part 1" (Genesis 4:1-5)
"Cain: The Portrait of a Doomed Sinner--Part 2" (Genesis 4:6-16)


"The Theology of Creation" , Pt.1. video of John MacArthur 10/23/2009
"The Theology of Creation", Pt.2 video of John MacArthur 10/27/2009
"Evidence for Special Creation from Scientific Evidence" by James White

"Reformed Theology and Six Day Creation" by Kenneth Gentry






















The following are technical articles by some of the best young earth creationists



















"Biblical Perspective on the Philosophy of Science" by Leonard Brand

Contrary views which argue against a strictly Young Earth viewpoint

"Because it Had Not Rained" by Meredith Kline

"Space and Time in the Genesis Cosmogony" by Meredith Kline (defense of the Framework Hypothesis)

"The Framework Hypothesis and Genesis 1" by Herman Hanko (includes a critique of Meredith Kline's views on this issue)



"Meredith Kline Strikes Back, Part 1" by James B. Jordan (a critique of Kline's Framework Hypothesis)

"Meredith Kline Strikes Back, Part 2" by James B. Jordan (a critique of Kline's Framework Hypothesis)

"The Bible, Rocks, and Time : Geological Evidence for the Age of the Earth" by Davis A. Young, Ralph F. Stearley (Google Books limited preview)

review of the above book by Donald J. Duff, stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church

review of the above book by Marcus R. Ross, assistant professor of Geology at Liberty University















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Sunday, August 12, 2007

The Nature of God

Since my blog appears to have a lot of readers who are not Christians, I thought it might be helpful to start a series of blog posts on the basics of the Christian Faith. In this post, I will start by presenting the views that the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith (BCF) has on the nature of God. Here is the BCF's Chapter 2 : God and of the Holy Trinity with Scriptural proofs.

Chapter 2: God and the Holy Trinity

2.1 The Lord our God is the one and only living and true God. [1]

His substance is in and of himself, he is infinite in being and perfection. [2] His essence cannot be understood by any but himself. [3] He is an absolutely pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts or passions. He alone has immortality, living in light which no one can approach. [4] He is immutable, immense, eternal, incomprehensible, almighty, in every way infinite, perfectly holy, perfectly wise, absolutely free, completely absolute. [5] He works all things according to the counsel of his own immutable and entirely righteous will for his own glory. [6]

He is perfectly loving, gracious, merciful, long-suffering, abundant in goodness and truth; he forgives iniquity, transgression and sin. [7] He is the rewarder of those who diligently seek him, yet at the same time he is entirely just and terrible in his judgements, hating all sin, and he will by no means clear the guilty. [8]

  1. Deuteronomy 6:4 Jeremiah 10:10 1 Corinthians 8:4,6 1 Thessalonians 1:9
  2. Isaiah 48:12
  3. Exodus 3:14 Job 11:7-8 Job 26:14 Psalms 145:3 Romans 11:33-34
  4. John 4:24 1 Timothy 1:17 Deuteronomy 4:15-16 Luke 24:39 Acts 14:11,15 James 5:17
  5. Malachi 3:6 James 1:17 1 Kings 8:27 Jeremiah 23:23-24 Psalms 90:2 1 Timothy 1:17 Genesis 17:1 Revelation 4:8 Isaiah 6:3 Romans 16:27 Psalms 115:3 Exodus 3:14
  6. Ephesians 1:11 Isaiah 46:10 Proverbs 16:4 Romans 11:36
  7. Exodus 34:6-7 1 John 4:8
  8. Hebrews 11:6 Nehemiah 9:32-33 Psalms 5:4-6 Nahum 1:2-3 Exodus 34:7

2.2 God has all life, glory, goodness, blessedness in and of himself; he is unique in being, all-sufficient in and to himself, not standing in need of any creature which he has made, nor deriving any glory from them, but rather demonstrating his own glory in them, through them, to them, and upon them. [1]

He alone is the source of all being, from whom, through whom, and to whom are all things;

He has absolute sovereign dominion over all creatures, to do through them, for them, or to them whatever he pleases. [2]

In his sight all things are open and plain, his knowledge is infinite, infallible, and independent of created beings, so for him nothing is contingent or uncertain. [3]

He is perfectly holy in all his plans, in all his works, and in all his commands. [4]

Angels and human beings owe him, as creatures to the Creator, worship, service, and obedience, and whatever else he is pleased to require of them. [5]

  1. John 5:26 Acts 7:2 Psalms 148:13 Psalms 119:68 1 Timothy 6:15 Job 22:2-3 Acts 17:24-25
  2. Revelation 4:11 1 Timothy 6:15 Romans 11:34-36 Daniel 4:25,34-35
  3. Hebrews 4:13 Romans 11:33-34 Psalms 147:5 Acts 15:18 Ezekiel 11:5
  4. Psalms 145:17 Romans 7:12
  5. Revelation 5:12-14

2.3 In this divine and infinite Being there are three persons, the Father, the Son (or the Word) and the Holy Spirit. [1] They are one in substance, power, and eternity, each having the whole divine essence, yet this essence is undivided. [2]

The Father is not derived from anyone, he is neither begotten nor proceeding; the Son is eternally begotten of the Father; the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. [3] All three are infinite, without beginning, and therefore but one God, who is not to be divided in nature and being. Yet they are distinguished by several distinctive characteristics and personal relations.

This doctrine of the Trinity is the foundation of all our fellowship with God, and of the comfort of our dependence on him.

  1. Matthew 3:16-17 Matthew 28:19 2 Corinthians 13:14
  2. Exodus 3:14 John 14:11 1 Corinthians 8:4-6
  3. Proverbs 8:22-31 John 1:1-3,14,18 John 3:16 John 10:36 John 15:26 John 16:28 Hebrews 1:2 1 John 4:14 Galatians 4:4-6

Related articles:

Attributes of God" by A.W. Pink (a comprehensive study of the nature of God)

"The Trinity" by the Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry

"The Biblical Basis of the Doctrine of the Trinity" by the Christian Research Institute

"A Brief Definition of the Trinity" by James White

"The Nature of God-The Tri-Unity of God" by James White

"Loving the Trinity" by James White

"The Trinity" by Thomas Watson

"Doctrine of the Trinity" by John Owen

"Who is God" [a series of articles especially for Muslims]

Answering Islam

"The Trinity, The Definition of Chalcedon, and Oneness Theology by James White

articles on Oneness Pentecostal theology also known as Jesus only theology by Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry

Articles especially for Jehovah's Witnesses by James White

Articles especially for Mormons by James White

Articles especially for Roman Catholics by James White


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