If the Bible is the Word of God, it follows that Bible teaching concerning God is God’s teaching about Himself. That being so, there seems no reason why any unprejudiced reader of the Scriptures should withhold his assent to any aspect of the Bible doctrine of God. What God reveals about Himself must be true, and if we seek to modify or amend this Bible teaching in any particular, we infer quite definitely that God has given a distorted and therefore false revelation of Himself, and that He cannot therefore be believed in the matter, or else that part of what He has declared is of no consequence, and need not be taken seriously. Each of these alternatives is so evidently untenable that we must dismiss them both. We can only conclude that the sole logical alternative to entire belief is total disbelief. There is no intermediate stage in such a matter.
What, then, does the Bible teach concerning God? The opening verse of the Old Testament commences God’s revelation of Himself.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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Author: P. H. Adams
Keywords: Christian creeds, Creeds, Apostles Creed, Nicean Creed, Nicene, Nicene Creed, Athanasian Creed, Trinity, Triune, Triune god, one god, one god in three persons, second person of the trinity, Jesus is God, God the Son, Arius, Arian controversy, Arian, 325 AD, Council of Nicaea, Council of Nicea, First Council of Nicaea, First council of Nicea, Deity of Jesus, Divinity of Jesus, Homoousios, homoiousios, Homoiousian
Bible reference(s): Gen. 1:26, Gen. 11:7, Deu 6:4, 1Ki 8:60, 2Ki 19:15, Isa 37:16, Isa 40:28, Isa 42:8, Isaiah 44:6, Isaiah 45:5, Isa 45:7, Isa 45:18, Isaiah 46:9, Amo 4:13, Mat 11:27, Mat 23:9, Mat 24:36, Mark 12:29, Mar 12:32, Luk 18:19, John 1:1-3, Joh 5:23, Joh 5:30, Joh 10:30, Joh 14:9-10, Joh 14:28, John 17:1-3, Joh 17:21, Joh 20:17, Act 4:24, Act 14:15, Rom 3:29, 1 Cor. 8:6, 1Co 11:3, 1Co 15:27-28, 2Co 11:31, Gal 3:20, Eph 1:3, Eph 4:5-6, 1 Tim. 2:5, 1Pe 1:3
Source: “The Bible Doctrine of God,” The Testimony, Vol. 11, No. 125, May 1941, pp. 152-5.
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