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Theology Review. General Revelation. Enough for everyone to know there is a God. Not enough to bring sinners to salvation. Scripture. Inspired by God Authoritative Sufficient. God’s Character. God Is Spirit God Is Infinite God Is Unchanging God Is Good.
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General Revelation Enough for everyone to know there is a God. Not enough to bring sinners to salvation.
Scripture Inspired by God Authoritative Sufficient
God’s Character God Is Spirit God Is Infinite God Is Unchanging God Is Good God Is Immanent and Transcendent God Is Three-in-One
God’s Ways “Now therefore, I pray You, if I have found favor in Your sight, let me know Your ways that I may know You, so that I may find favor in Your sight. Consider too, that this nation is Your people.“ Exodus 33:13
God’s Ways “Oh that My people would listen to Me, That Israel would walk in My ways! I would quickly subdue their enemies and turn My hand against their adversaries. Psalm 81:13-14
God’s Ways Eternal
God’s Ways Eternal “Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or of me His prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity.” 2 Timothy 1:8-9
God’s Ways Eternal “This was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him.” Ephesians 3:11-12
God’s Ways Eternal Righteous
God’s Ways Eternal Righteous “The judgments of the LORD are true; they are righteous altogether.” Psalm 19:9
God’s Ways Eternal Righteous “The Rock! His work is perfect, For all His ways are just; A God of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous and upright is He.“ Deuteronomy 32:4
God’s Ways Eternal Righteous Wise
“O LORD, how many are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all; The earth is full of Your possessions.” Psalm 104:24
God’s Ways Eternal Righteous Wise Comprehensive
“We have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will.” Ephesians 1:11
God’s Ways Eternal Righteous Wise Comprehensive Effective
“The counsel of the LORD stands forever, The plans of His heart from generation to generation.” Psalm 33:11
“The LORD of hosts has sworn saying, ‘Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand.’” Isaiah 14:24
God’s Ways Eternal Righteous Wise Comprehensive Effective For His Glory
“For My own sake, for My own sake, I will act; For how can My name be profaned? And My glory I will not give to another.” Isaiah 48:11
God’s Ways Eternal Righteous Wise Comprehensive Effective For His Glory Free
“Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, Or as His counselor has informed Him? With whom did He consult and who gave Him understanding? And who taught Him in the path of justice and taught Him knowledge and informed Him of the way of understanding?” Isaiah 40:13-14
Creation: The Beginning of God’s Ways Out of Nothing
Creation: The Beginning of God’s Ways Out of Nothing “God, who gives life to the dead and calls into being that which does not exist. “ Romans 4:17
Creation: The Beginning of God’s Ways Out of Nothing All-Encompassing
“All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.” John 1:3
“You turn things around! Shall the potter be considered as equal with the clay, That what is made would say to its maker, ‘He did not make me’; Or what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘He has no understanding’?” Isaiah 29:16
Creation: The Beginning of God’s Ways Out of Nothing All-Encompassing Good
“Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.” 1 Timothy 6:17
Creation: The Beginning of God’s Ways Out of Nothing All-Encompassing Good Purposeful
Creation: The Beginning of God’s Ways Out of Nothing All-Encompassing Good Purposeful Mature
“Then God said, ‘Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years; and let them be for lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth’; and it was so.” Genesis 1:14-15
Creation: The Beginning of God’s Ways Out of Nothing All-Encompassing Good Purposeful Mature Just As He Said
“God called the light day, and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day.” Genesis 1:5
Providence: God’s Continuing Work “You alone are the LORD. You have made the heavens, the heaven of heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all of them and the heavenly host bows down before You.” Nehemiah 9:6
Providence: God’s Continuing Work “He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.” Colossians 1:17
Providence: God’s Continuing Work Physical and Spiritual
“He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” Psalm 23:3-4
Providence: God’s Continuing Work Physical and Spiritual Universal and Individual
“The lot is cast into the lap, But its every decision is from the LORD.” Proverbs 16:33
Providence: God’s Continuing Work Physical and Spiritual Universal and Individual Temporal and Eternal
“For He says to Moses, ‘I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION.’ So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.” Romans 9:15-16
Providence: God’s Continuing Work Questioned by People
Providence: God’s Continuing Work Questioned by People The “Problem” of Evil