Bible Questions Answered:
“What is God like?'
Sheila/ Dublin, Ireland
Bible Answer:
In theology, we call this the
attributes of God:
Attributes Of God:
Eternal:
There is no beginning with God, and no
ending. He always has been in existence and always will be.
Genesis 21:33 KJV
And Abraham planted a grove in
Beersheba, and called there on the name of The Lord, The Everlasting
God.
Deuteronomy 33:27 KJV
The eternal God is thy refuge, and
underneath are the everlasting arms:
Faithful:
What God says in His Word, that He will
do!
Lamentations 3:22,23 KJV
22 It is of The Lord's mercies that
we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.
23 They are new every morning: great
is thy faithfulness.
I Corinthians 10:13 KJV
There hath no temptation taken you
but such as is common to man: but God is Faithful, who will not
suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the
temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
I Thessalonians 5:24 KJV
Faithful is He that calleth you, who
also will do it.
Good:
Our God, is perfect in all goodness.
Psalm 34:8 KJV
O taste and see that The Lord is
good: blessed is the man that trusteth in Him.
Psalm 100:5 KJV
For The Lord is good; His mercy is
everlasting; and His Truth endureth to all generations.
Psalm 103:1-5 KJV
1 Bless The Lord, O my soul: and all
that is within me, bless His holy name.
2 Bless The Lord, O my soul, and
forget not all His benefits:
3 Who forgiveth all thine
iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
4 Who redeemeth thy life from
destruction; who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender
mercies;
5 Who satisfieth thy mouth with good
things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's.
Psalm 145:8,9 KJV
8 The Lord is gracious, and full of
compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.
9 The Lord is good to all: and His
tender mercies are over all His works.
Holy:
Our God is sinless, pure and undefiled.
God is righteous in all His ways, and He cannot condone sin in any
form.
I Samuel 2:2 KJV
There is none holy as The Lord: for
there is none beside thee: neither is there any Rock like our God.
Psalm 99:5 KJV
Exalt ye The Lord our God, and
worship at His footstool; for He is holy.
Isaiah 43:15 KJV
I am The Lord, your Holy One, The
Creator Of Israel, your King.
Immutable:
God is “unchanging.” He is the same
yesterday, today and forever.
Malachi 3:6 KJV
For I am The Lord, I change not;
therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.
James 1:17 KJV
Every Good Gift and every Perfect
Gift is from above, and cometh down from The Father Of Lights, with
whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
Infinite:
God has "no," limits, God is
a Spirit.
I Kings 8:27 KJV
But will God indeed dwell on the
earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain
thee..."
II Peter 3:8 KJV
But, beloved, be not ignorant of
this one thing, that one day is with The Lord as a thousand years,
and a thousand years as one day.
Just:
The decisions that God makes are just
and fair, because He is a God of righteousness and mercy. Justice
also requires punishment for sin.
Deuteronomy 32:4 KJV
He is The Rock, His work is perfect:
for all His ways are judgment: a God of Truth and without iniquity,
Just and Right is He.
Isaiah 45:21 KJV
Tell ye, and bring them near; yea,
let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient
time? who hath told it from that time? have not I The Lord? and
there is no God else beside Me; a Just God and a Savior; there is
none beside Me.
Romans 3:24-26 KJV
24 Being justified freely by His
grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:
25 Whom God hath set forth to be a
propitiation (make reconciliation) through faith in His blood, to
declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past,
through the forbearance of God;
26 To declare, I say, at this time
His righteousness: that He might be Just, and The Justifier of him
which believeth in Jesus.
I John 1:7 KJV
But if we walk in The Light, as He
is in The Light, we have fellowship one with another, and The Blood
Of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Love:
God is a God of love.
John 3:16-18 KJV
16 For God so loved the world, that
He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should
not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not His Son into the
world to condemn the world; but that the world through Him might be
saved.
18 He that believeth on Him is not
condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he
hath not believed in the name of The Only Begotten Son Of God.
I John 4:16 KJV
And we have known and believed the
love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love
dwelleth in God, and God in him.
Majestic:
God is incomparable in His beauty,
righteousness, power, goodness, and excellence in every way.
Psalm 29:2 ,4 KJV
2 Give unto The Lord the glory due
unto His name; worship The Lord in the beauty of holiness.
4 The voice of The Lord is powerful;
the voice of The Lord is full of majesty.
Psalm 95:6 KJV
O come, let us worship and bow down:
let us kneel before The Lord Our Maker.
Psalm 96:9 KJV
O worship The Lord in the beauty of
holiness: fear before Him, all the earth.
Psalm 104:1 KJV
Bless The Lord, O my soul. O Lord my
God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honor and majesty.
Isaiah 24:14 KJV
They shall lift up their voice, they
shall sing for the majesty of The Lord, they shall cry aloud from the
sea.
Merciful:
God mercifully sets before us The Way
of salvation, the choice is ours.
Numbers 14:18 NLT
The Lord is slow to anger and filled
with unfailing love, forgiving every kind of sin and rebellion. But
He does not excuse the guilty..."
Psalm 130:3 KJV
If thou, Lord, shouldest mark
iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Ephesians 2:4 KJV
But God, who is rich in mercy, for
His great love wherewith He loved us,
Omnipotent:
Our God is all powerful.
Job 42:1,2 KJV
1 Then Job answered The Lord, and
said,
2 I know that thou canst do every
thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
Revelation 19:6 KJV
And I heard as it were the voice of
a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice
of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for The Lord God Omnipotent
reigneth.
Omnipresent:
God is everywhere present.
Psalm 139:7-12 KJV
7 Whither shall I go from thy
Spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou
art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
9 If I take the wings of the
morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea;
10 Even there shall thy hand lead
me, and thy right hand shall hold me.
11 If I say, Surely the darkness
shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
12 Yea, the darkness hideth not from
thee; but the night shineth as the day: the darkness and the light
are both alike to thee.
Proverbs 5:21 KJV
For the ways of man are before the
eyes of The Lord, and He pondereth all his goings.
Proverbs 15:3 KJV
The eyes of The Lord are in every
place, beholding the evil and the good.
Acts 17:28 KJV
For in Him we live, and move, and
have our being..."
Omnisapient:
Perfect in wisdom. God acts perfectly
wise in His creation.
Psalm 104:24 KJV
O Lord, how manifold are thy works!
in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
Isaiah 40:28 KJV
Hast thou not known? hast thou not
heard, that The Everlasting God, The Lord, The Creator Of The Ends Of
The Earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of
His understanding.
Romans 11:33 KJV
O the depth of the riches both of
the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are His judgments,
and His ways past finding out!
Perfect in Knowledge. Our God is all
knowing. There is not anything that our God, does not see or hear.
Job 37:16 KJV
Dost thou know the balancings of the
clouds, the wondrous works of Him which is perfect in knowledge?
Psalm 139:1-4 KJV
1 O lord, thou hast searched me, and
known me.
2 Thou knowest my downsitting and
mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.
3 Thou compassest my path and my
lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
4 For there is not a word in my
tongue, but, lo, O Lord, thou knowest it altogether.
God is Sovereign Almighty Ruler of all
creation.
Psalms 22:28 KJV
For the kingdom is The Lord's: and
He is the Governor among the nations.
Psalm 47:2 KJV
For The Lord Most High is terrible;
He is a Great King over all the earth.
Isaiah 44:6 KJV
Thus saith The Lord The King Of
Israel, and His Redeemer The Lord Of Hosts; I am The First, and I am
The Last; and beside Me there is no God.
Isaiah 66:1,2 KJV
1 Thus saith The Lord, The heaven is
My throne, and the earth is My footstool: where is the house that ye
build unto Me? and where is the place of My rest?
2 For all those things hath Mine
hand made, and all those things have been, saith The Lord: but to
this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite
spirit, and trembleth at My Word.
Daniel 4:34,35 KJV
34 And at the end of the days I
Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine
understanding returned unto me, and I blessed The Most High, and I
praised and honored Him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an
everlasting dominion, and His kingdom is from generation to
generation:
35 And all the inhabitants of the
earth are reputed as nothing: and He doeth according to His will in
the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none
can stay His hand, or say unto Him, What doest thou?
Triune:
Tri-Unity, i.e. one God, yet in three
persons, The Father, The Son, The Holy Spirit. These three are in
perfect harmony, perfect unity, perfect agreement.
Genesis 1:26 KJV
And God said, Let us make man in our
image, after our likeness..."
Deuteronomy 6:4 KJV
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is
one Lord..."
Matthew 3:16,17 KJV
16 And Jesus, when He was baptized,
went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were
opened unto Him, and He saw The Spirit Of God descending like A Dove,
and lighting upon Him:
17 And lo a voice from heaven,
saying, This is My Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.
Matthew 28:19 KJV
Go ye therefore, and teach all
nations, baptizing them in the name of The Father, and of
The Son, and of The Holy Ghost:
Truth:
God's Word is The Way, The Truth and
The Life.
Psalm 117:1,2 KJV
1 O praise The Lord, all ye nations:
praise Him, all ye people.
2 For His merciful kindness is great
toward us: and The Truth of The Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye The
Lord.
Titus 1:2 KJV
In hope of eternal life, which God,
that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
Jeremiah 9:24
KJV
But let
him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth
Me, that I am The Lord which exercise loving kindness, judgment, and
righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith The
Lord.
