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The Bible ascribes to God a wealth of moral properties, including holiness, righteousness, love, grace, mercy, long-suffering, loving kindness, faithfulness, and so on.
God is telling us in Scripture who He is; as the Psalmist says, “As is Thy name, O God [Elohim], so is Thy praise to the ends of the earth” (Ps. 48: 10). It is important to understand that only God can name himself.
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Good and evil is a major theme of the Bible; Genesis 1:31; 2:9; 17; 3:22; the first thing that was not “good” is that man was alone; isolation and ungodly introspection are a breeding ground for evil. God made us to be in community, and to care for one another.
Evil is the thorniest of theological problems for a Christian theologian and may well be, as some have claimed, the number one cause of lost faith. The problem, says philosopher J. L. Mackie, is that. God is omnipotent; God is wholly good; and yet evil exists.
good and evil, was the moral law.‖ This responsibility on Adam’s part is implied by the very nature of moral law, and in Adam’s moral responsibility as a creature in God’s image (Gen 1:27).
In this lesson, Dr. Lawson explains what it means to affirm that God is holy, and how an understanding of this truth affects how we approach the living God and live before Him in humble reverence. 1. To explain what Scripture means when it calls God “holy” 2. To instill awe in the one who is exalted over all creation. 3.
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In a nutshell, one's concept of the holiness of God is directly connected to and governed by his understanding of the exceeding sinfulness of sin. The aim of this doctrinal study is to allow the student to clearly see both the purity of the one and the perversion of the other.
