Questions regarding God's nature. This may include omni- aspects (eg omniscience), love, hate, or other attributes identified with God.
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What do we mean by person?
In general, and as it applies to The Trinity, what do we mean by person.
Assuming that we say a person is "a rational being" or "an individual substance" of some sort, what attributes or qualities ...
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Definition of God in Christianity? [closed]
I saw the question here, but that's not exactly what I want to know about christianity, I just want frank explicit answers, not on the nature of God (that I accept that The full nature of the infinite ...
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Is God omnipotent? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Biblical evidence for omnipotence/omniscience
Next in my line of questions...
I've always heard silly questions like "Could God create a rock so big he couldn't lift ...
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How can an all powerful supreme being be either good or evil?
In order to be Omnipotent, or all knowing, as well as Omnipresent and all powerful wouldn't a supreme being have to be so far removed from concepts of "Good" and "Evil"? Those are just terms and ...
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What is the Christian perspective on the description of God?
My pastor (Calvary Chapel) referred to God as His father, then once said that God is everywhere and in everything (i.e. - inside each person) and then that God is Love.
So now I am confused as to ...
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What does it mean for God to be a person?
What does it mean when Christians say that God is a person? (Representative example here.) Does this mean that Christians believe that God is human?
My experience is with Judaism (in Judaism, God is ...
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Does God tempt Abraham in Genesis 22:1?
In James 1:13 it says:
Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man:
But in Genesis 22:1 it is written:
And it ...
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Are some people pursued by the “enemy” relatively more than others?
My pastor made a general statement (or whole sermon;) and said something to the effect that the more the enemy knows you are in alignment with God the more he tries to knock us off course.
So, more ...
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Does Exodus 3:14 explain who God is to everyone regardless of time and culture?
Exodus 3:14 states:
God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’
This seems appropriate in regard to the Israelites since they ...
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What is the Biblical basis that God's sacrifice is sufficient for all of our sins (past included)?
I spoke to a friend recently and they said:
I feel like I've done so much in my past, and that is holding me back from having a relationship with God. How can I know that God will accept me, even ...
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What were the Nephilim, and what role did they play in the Bible beyond just being mentioned?
Did the Nephilim (Genesis 6:1-4) do anything beyond just existing?
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How can panentheism or God's immanence be reconciled with Satan?
Some Christians hold that the universe or creation are part of God (panentheism). More often than not, God is said to be both immanent and transcendental in relation to the universe. How can those be ...
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Can we truly know anything about God's character?
I've seen a few people casually write about how they know God's character—the features and traits that make up His person or existence—yet I've always been taught the opposite (that we can't possibly ...
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Are all things possible with God?
Every Christian knows the saying that "With God all things are possible." But is this actually a fact?
I listened recently to a speaker, who said, that God cannot come in contact with anything ...
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Does God have the capacity to sin? Can God sin?
To clarify,
this question is not asking for a "justification" of those times, described in the Bible, when God struck someone dead. Life is His to take.
the question is also not asking strictly ...
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Concept of God in Christianity
I don't understand the concept of God in Christianity. Based on what I do know, there is God, the Son of God and the Holy Spirit -- doesn't this add up to 3 Gods?
In Christianity, is there there One ...
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Why do Christians call Jesus the “Son of God” rather than simply “God”?
We call Jesus the son of God that became the son of man. And yet, Jesus is God per the doctrine of the trinity. Why don't orthodox Christians address him as God when talking about him and praying? ...
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How can we apply relying on Jesus in situations where it appears we have to rely on ourselves?
I ask the question for a real reason. I would like to make more money to support my family and live in better conditions. I feel I have to rely on myself to go back to school, work hard and then get a ...
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Could there be any possible action proving Yahweh to be cruel? [closed]
Recently, one of my christian friends died of cancer. My Christian friends told me that Yahweh is very merciful. But if he got well, Yahweh would be merciful, too.
So, HYPOTHETICALLY (see the note): ...
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Identifying the Three and the One in Scripture in light of the Trinity
I am very interested in learning more about the Trinity. I love God, and really want to understand Them better.
..I mean Him. This came to my mind earlier, and I laughed, but then caught myself, ...
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Why do Christians thank God for specific things?
Ideally this question is addressed to non-Calvinists...to those who believe in free will and that much of what is wrong with the world (e.g. genetically unhealthy infants) is due to the existence of ...
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In creation of the earth and mankind, how much thought was put into this? [closed]
Unsure if this is an unanswerable question or a more philosophical one, but do you think God just made the earth/man and all its intricacies or do you think God thought before creating everything? ...
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When God works 'all things' for the good, is anything excluded in the word 'all'?
Assuming these verses in Romans 8 apply to the elect, is anything past, present, or future, in all of creation, circumstance, and world events excluded, or is it literally to be understood as an ...
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Does the Bible have any proof that Jesus Christ is the Only-begotten Son of God?
Apart from John's writings, is there any Biblical evidence that Jesus Christ is the only-begotten son of God?
John makes it clear (such as in John 1:18, 3:18), but other parts of the Bible refer to ...
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Why did God speak Hebrew?
God wrote the Ten Commandments with His own finger, on tablets of Stone, in Hebrew.
When He had finished speaking with him upon Mount Sinai, He gave Moses the two tablets of the testimony, tablets ...
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How do Christians justify God's apparent neglect of those who cannot help themselves? [duplicate]
This is something that always confused me.
Take as a simple example, one among many, children in Africa. The ones we've all seen pictures of. The ones that starve to death or are shot before they're ...
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According to mainstream Christianity, who is God? [duplicate]
This question also relates to it:
Biblical basis for the doctrine of the Trinity
Growing up I've been led to believe that God is God, and Jesus is God's son. But others have also preached that ...
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What is the will of God? [closed]
There's a lot of discussion about whether or not what we do conforms to the will of God. But have we ever defined exactly what that will is?
Can you provide scripture to show exactly what the will of ...
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Why does God allow innocent people to believe wrong or false teachings? [closed]
Lets take a hypothetical example:
A new Christian discovers this site. He posts a certain question about what a specific Bible verse means.
He finally receives a response but the answer is ...
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What is God's nature? [closed]
What is God's nature in simplest terms? What essential principles governs how God interacts within the trinity and with his creation?
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God the Father's possession of a body of flesh and bones [closed]
There is a belief out there that God the Father has always possessed a body of flesh and bones. Some of the proponents of this belief don't find it contradictory to John 4:24 ("God is a Spirit") as ...
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Babel - modern day [closed]
And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one
language; and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be
restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
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Philosophy and Christianity [closed]
Can a Christian study Philosophy and become a philosopher without compromising their beliefs? is it good for Christian to study philosophy
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Is procreation a sin? [closed]
The concept that this world is bent and fallen is pretty standard in
just about every form of Christianity. That this world is not what God
intended it to be is the starting port. But the hope ...
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Why would the God of Judaism require many rituals? [closed]
It seems to me there are many small rituals, my question is what is the sense in requiring them? Why would the God of the universe worry about such small things, and ignore much larger items.
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How do Christians reconcile with Exodus 20:5 [closed]
Do Christians believe the description of God in Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your
God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the
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