A Overview of The Doctrine of God
A Overview of The Doctrine of God
A Overview of The Doctrine of God
C. Knowing God, who He is, what He does, what He is like and what
He requires of us, is the foundation for life and faith, joy, obedience,
love and worship.
Summary:
6. My passion must be to
Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and
blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction and
no understanding of what surrounds you. This way you can waste your
life and lose your soul. Packer.
3. Worldview assumptions
1. Rationalism
2. Empiricism
3. Revelation
6. Conclusion
2. The name of God is thus vitally linked to His glory, His fame
Gods name is God Himself, God in His self-revelation (Frame).
In short, Scripture says about the name of God virtually
everything it says about God (Frame).
E. Adon, Adonay
I. Preliminary considerations
A. The unity and simplicity of God
B. Classification of attributes
1. Classic Lutheran classification:
Negative
Positive
2. Classic Arminian:
Absolute
Relative
Moral
3. Classic Reformed:
Communicable
Incommunicable
Goodness
Knowledge
Power
Critique:
B. Self-existence (Ex. 3:14; Psa. 102:25-27 [Gen. 1:1; Jn. 1:1]; Rev.
1:8)
Resolutions:
1) Compatibilism
(1) Prescience
B. Holiness
Isa. 6:1-3; 57:15; Ex. 15:11
1 Jn. 1:5
C. Righteousness
Gen. 18:25; Ezra 9:15; Psa. 71:19; 145:17
D. Justice
Deut. 32:4; Psa. 7:11; 9:7-8; 96:10-13;
The Attributes of God
IV. Goodness, Holiness, Righteousness, Justice and Truth
E. Truth
1. Truth and reality
Jn. 17:3; 14:6; 1 Jn. 5:20
2. Ethically reliable
Titus 1:2; Heb. 6:18; Psa. 12:6; 119:160; Jn. 17:17
3. Personally faithful
Ex. 34:6;
V. Divine Affections
A. God has absolute capacity to feel, He has affections
I. Definitions:
2. The solution
CONCLUSION
Gods Work of Creation
A Biblical Theological Introduction to Creation
1) That God created, by fiat, the heavens and the earth, is a biblical given
which pervades all of Scripture.
In Gods way of doing history, the last things are as the first (ta escata w`j ta
prwta).
3) The reminder that God is Life-giver and Lord over all creation
Gen. 2:7; Job 33:4; Psa. 47:2; 97:9
D. We ought to look forward to the New Heaven and the New Earth
Gods Work of Providence (Job 12; Psa. 104)
Introduction
Larger Catechism, Q/A. 18
Q. What are Gods works of providence?
A. Gods works of providence are His most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and
governing all His creatures; ordering them, and all their actions, to His own glory.
Sproul
If chance existed, it would destroy Gods sovereignty. If God is not sovereign,
He is not God. If He is not God, He simply is not. If chance is, God is not. If God is,
chance is not. The two cannot coexist by reason of the impossibility of the contrary.
I say that chance has no power to do anything because it is simply not anything.
It has no power because it has no being. Nothing cannot do something. Nothing is not.
What are the chances chance can do anything? Not a chance. It has no more chance to
do something than nothing has to do something.
Ecc. 9:11
On the lips of an Israelite chance means what is unexpected, not what is
random. The Hebrew word means something that happens. Michael Eaton
3. Concurrence
2 Sam. 24:1, 10; 1 Chron. 21:1
Gods activity is simultaneous and co-extensive with mans activity and
yet at the same time determinative.
C. My actions are governed by the revealed will of God, not His providence
(Deut. 29:29; 1 Sam. 24:1-7)