What is God Like?
Gaining a God Perspective
To begin: A rationale is presented on the following page for taking the bible as our main reference point in coming to know about God and for using it as our primary resource for understanding what he reveals about himself and his purposes towards people. Hopefully, readers will find insight into these issues unfolding by progressing through the pages of this site. However, the various menu lists may also be used to follow topics of particular interest that will help offer some insight into the perspective that God brings to some of the issues that so often challenge our ability to believe.
Seeing from God’s Perspective
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. . . For the Lord does not see as man sees; for humans look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7 NKJV
As we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18 ESV
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. 1 Corinthians 13:12 ESV
The Lord looks down from heaven on the entire human race; he looks to see if anyone is truly wise, if anyone seeks God. Psalm 14:2 NLT
Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God. Psalm 90:2 NIV
And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do. Hebrews 4:13 NASB
Oh, how great are God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge! How impossible it is for us to understand his decisions and his ways! For who can know the Lord’s thoughts? Who knows enough to give him advice? And who has given him so much that he needs to pay it back? For everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory. All glory to him forever! Romans 11: 33‑36 NLT
By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; by his knowledge the watery depths were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew. Proverbs 3: 19‑20 NIV
The plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people he chose for his inheritance. From heaven the LORD looks down and sees all mankind; Psalms 33: 11‑13 NIV
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. John 4:24 ESV
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord.
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways
and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55: 6‑9 NIV
Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend into heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in hell [in the grave, or in the ground], behold, You are there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there Your hand shall lead me, and Your right hand shall hold me. Psalm 139: 7‑10 NASB
. . . but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace, because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s Law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the flesh cannot please God. Romans 8: 6-8 NIV
The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned. 1 Corinthians 2:14 ESV
See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ. Colossians 2:8 ESV
"Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" 1 Corinthians 2:16 NIV
“Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counsellor?” Romans 11: 33‑34 NIV
Who can fathom the Spirit of the Lord, or instruct the Lord as his counsellor? Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? Isaiah 40: 13‑14 ESV
For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. 2 Timothy 4: 3‑4 ESV
"You felt secure in your wickedness and said, 'No one sees me,' Your wisdom and your knowledge, they have deluded you; For you have said in your heart, 'I am, and there is no one besides me.' "But evil will come on you which you will not know how to charm away; And disaster will fall on you for which you cannot atone; And destruction about which you do not know will come on you suddenly. Isaiah 47:10‑11 NASB
God will bring about [the reappearance of our Lord Jesus Christ] at the proper time--He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see To Him be honour and eternal dominion! Amen. 1 Timothy 6:15‑16 NASB
The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation, that they would seek God, if perhaps they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, 'For we also are His children’. Acts 17: 24‑28 NASB
For the Lord Most High is awesome; He is a great King over all the earth... God reigns over the nations; God sits on His holy throne. Psalm 47:2, 8 NLT
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.” Revelation 22:13 ESV
God is a righteous judge, and a God who feels indignation every day. Psalm 7:11 ESV
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths . Proverbs 3: 5‑6 ESV
Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, "Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man, for I will question you, then you answer me. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Declare, if you have understanding. . . . Have the gates of death been revealed to you? Or have you seen the gates of the shadow of death? Have you comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if you know it all. . . . By what way is the lightning distributed, or the east wind scattered on the earth? . . . Do you know the laws of the heavens? Can you establish its dominion over the earth? . . . Who provides for the raven his prey, when his young ones cry to God, and wander for lack of food? Job 38: 1‑4, 17‑18, 24, 33, 41 NHEB
Moreover the LORD answered Job, "Shall he who argues contend with Shaddai? He who argues with God, let him answer it." Then Job answered the LORD, "Look, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth. I have spoken once, and I will not answer; Yes, twice, but I will proceed no further." Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind, . . . “Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be [in the right]? Or do you have an arm like God? Can you thunder with a voice like him?” Job 40: 1‑5, 8‑9 NHEB
Then Job answered the Lord, “I know that you can do all things” . . . Job 42: 1‑2 NHEB
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