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God Is A Living Personal Spirit

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God:
God is good. He is loving, merciful and compassionate. The Bible tells us that God is a living personal Spirit. He is not an impersonal force, but a living being who acts (Psalm 115:3-7). God is personal with his own features. He is Spirit who exists separately from the world and is above and beyond it. God is Trinity; Father, Son and Spirit. Father, Son and Holy Spirit are distinct persons within the Trinity and have distinct purposes, yet they are perfectly united in the being of God.
He is infinite, without beginning or end or any limitation at all. He is self-existent, not dependent on anyone for anything. God is sovereign. He rules overall and is the final cause of all that happens in his universe. He is everywhere and knows …show more content…

In the garden stood "the tree of the knowledge of good and evil," whose fruit was not to be eaten. When Adam and Eve went against God and ate the fruit, God banished them from the garden, sentencing them and their descendants to a life of hard work, pain, disease, and eventual death, and submitting the earth itself to servitude. Christians call this humanity 's "fall" from innocence.

Jesus:
It is generally accepted that Jesus was a man who walked on the earth in Israel 2000 years ago. The dispute begins when the subject of Jesus ' full identity is discussed. Through religious teachings, Jesus was a prophet, a good teacher, or a godly man. The problem is that the Bible tells us that Jesus was infinitely more than a prophet, a good teacher, or a godly man.
Jesus has to be God, because if He is not God, His death would not have been enough to pay the penalty for the sins of the whole world (1 John 2:2). Only God could pay such an infinite penalty (Romans 5:8; 2 Corinthians 5:21). Jesus had to be God so that He could pay our debt. Jesus had to be man so He could die. Salvation is available only through faith in Jesus Christ. Jesus’ divinity is why He is the only way of salvation. Jesus’ divinity is why He proclaimed, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6).

Restoration:
A Christian worldview attempts to answer three questions biblically: (1) God created humanity in His

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