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Who is God and why is God?
God is omnipresent (all-present). He is not an object somewhere in the universe, for he is the Creator of all things. He is invisible; this is even sometimes called “divine hiddenness.” It is because of this that God can be our refuge and hiding place. Although the Son took the form of a human and now — even today!
Why is God becoming human important?
Through Jesus’ incarnation, God began the process of salvation from sin, making it possible for humans to have a full relationship with him and go to Heaven. As Jesus was the son of God, most Christians believe he could not have been conceived and born like a normal human.
Why did God create the world?
“God created the world out of love as Father, Son and Holy Spirit,” adds Gary, “and so God redeems and perfects out of that love, even at his own cost. For that is what divine love is — and so what divine love does .” Humanity has an important place in creation. Our calling was to be a channel of blessing to the rest of creation.
Does God need a cause?
Answer: A common argument from atheists and skeptics is that if all things need a cause, then God must also need a cause. The conclusion is that if God needed a cause, then God is not God (and if God is not God, then of course there is no God).
Why do we call God God?
Therefore, since there could never have been absolutely nothing, something had to have always been in existence. That ever-existing thing is what we call God. God is the uncaused Being that caused everything else to come into existence. God is the uncreated Creator who created the universe and everything in it.
Why did God have to re-create people first?
“Humanity in its unbelief and disobedience interrupted God’s purpose,” says Gary, “so God had to redeem and re-create people first so that in the end all the rest of creation could also be restored. There is no magical fairy dust — it needed to be an inside job.