Bible Discussion Thread

Getting back to my study on Who God is. I would like to follow up Majestic with:

MYSTERY

There is much mystery in God from our viewpoint. Within the Godhead, all is known about His whole being. Nothing is hidden from Him nor is He able to not know/understand all that He is.

But to us, there is more of Him that is a mystery to us than that which we know and understand of Him.

In Job 38-40,out God bring before Job a plethora of things that God knows and does that man does not have any idea about.

There is the mystery of the inner relationship and union of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

There is the mystery of how God can be three distinct persons but only One God.

There is the mystery of how He created all things ex nihilo (out of no substances) aside from His word spoken and will performed.

There is the mystery of His existence outside of the universe, time, space, and anything else but Himself. There is the mystery of what He is truly like as a Purely Spiritual Being.

There is the mystery of why He allowed for sin to enter His creation when he could have done it another way.

There is the mystery of His perfection that we cannot ever have.

There is the mystery of His infinitude that we cannot ever be. We have bounds and limits.

There is the mystery of why He must punish sin forever.

There is the mystery of how Jesus could take on a human nature and still be fully God, not in any way diminished. No other being can be come something it is not created to be. No man can become God. But God could become man.

There is mystery about how Jesus' one sacrifice is infinitely worthy and over abundantly sufficient to take away all the sin of the world.

There is the mystery of how He, being God, could take sin upon Himself to be cursed before God and take all of the wrath of the God upon Himself for sin and be able t bear it.

There is the mystery of how the Jesus was able to raise Himself from the dead.

There is the mystery of how that Holy Spirit regenerates.