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"Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might"
Consider this verse my friends, and consider that it does not simply state that there is one God. But it especially emphasizes that The Lord is ONE
It has been the teaching of ancient Christianity since the very beginning that God is not contingent upon anything. He therefore lacks composition. This means he cannot have parts.
Human beings are composed of flesh, bone, blood, and they are even composed of a soul and a body. God cannot be composed in the same way that human beings are since he is infinite. Therefore, he has no material parts.
Consider these next verses my friends, and see how much further we must understand that God is purely one, with no parts whatsoever.
"I the LORD do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed."
"God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?"
God by virtue of his eternal nature, is unchanging. God by virtue of his immaterial nature, lacks composition and has no parts.
Therefore, we can conclude that God does not have different thoughts and feelings as human beings do. He does not have different parts or things within himself. But he is purely one within himself, which we call his essence.
A common objection to what I have said come from those who quote the following verse....
"So the Lord changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people."
They quote this verse to indicate to me that there must be a contradiction in the Bible. But we Christians know that Moses, who is the author of the Holy Law, did not make error when he wrote these things, although on a surface-level they seem to contradict.
But some will also quote this verse and try to say that God does change, and that Numbers 29 is only referring to his unchanging disposition towards goodness...
but we must understand that Moses is referring to the nature of God when he quotes Gods words saying, that he does not change his mind. Likewise the Prophet Malachi quotes Gods words by divine revelation, when he says that God does not change. God, by virtue of being eternal logically cannot change, everything about him is eternal, and he does not possess qualities within himself which change.
What follows from this is the understanding that our conception of God can only be understood through symbols and allegories. Analogies which will never be able to fully describe the indescribable, the incomprehensible and ineffable name of God which is known only to the spirit of God.
So when the Apostle John, who spoke by the hand of God, writes that "God is love", we know that this means God does not possess a quality separate from himself called "the property of love" but that God is perfect infinite love itself, and does not "have" love like you and I have love as a quality or a property.
I hope this helps many. Ask questions and I'll try to answer when I can.
Consider this verse my friends, and consider that it does not simply state that there is one God. But it especially emphasizes that The Lord is ONE
It has been the teaching of ancient Christianity since the very beginning that God is not contingent upon anything. He therefore lacks composition. This means he cannot have parts.
Human beings are composed of flesh, bone, blood, and they are even composed of a soul and a body. God cannot be composed in the same way that human beings are since he is infinite. Therefore, he has no material parts.
Consider these next verses my friends, and see how much further we must understand that God is purely one, with no parts whatsoever.
"I the LORD do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed."
"God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?"
God by virtue of his eternal nature, is unchanging. God by virtue of his immaterial nature, lacks composition and has no parts.
Therefore, we can conclude that God does not have different thoughts and feelings as human beings do. He does not have different parts or things within himself. But he is purely one within himself, which we call his essence.
A common objection to what I have said come from those who quote the following verse....
"So the Lord changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people."
They quote this verse to indicate to me that there must be a contradiction in the Bible. But we Christians know that Moses, who is the author of the Holy Law, did not make error when he wrote these things, although on a surface-level they seem to contradict.
But some will also quote this verse and try to say that God does change, and that Numbers 29 is only referring to his unchanging disposition towards goodness...
but we must understand that Moses is referring to the nature of God when he quotes Gods words saying, that he does not change his mind. Likewise the Prophet Malachi quotes Gods words by divine revelation, when he says that God does not change. God, by virtue of being eternal logically cannot change, everything about him is eternal, and he does not possess qualities within himself which change.
What follows from this is the understanding that our conception of God can only be understood through symbols and allegories. Analogies which will never be able to fully describe the indescribable, the incomprehensible and ineffable name of God which is known only to the spirit of God.
So when the Apostle John, who spoke by the hand of God, writes that "God is love", we know that this means God does not possess a quality separate from himself called "the property of love" but that God is perfect infinite love itself, and does not "have" love like you and I have love as a quality or a property.
I hope this helps many. Ask questions and I'll try to answer when I can.