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The nature of God includes all aspects and characteristics attributed directly to the person of God, possibly including all the omni- aspects (e.g. omniscience), love, hate, persons (e.g. the Trinity) or other attributes.
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Can God be different than what the Bible says?
Your question is valid, and Christians DO have a ready answer for it. Christians answer life and death questions from Christian point of view, and because the way we answer your question have direct …
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What is meant by Living God? Why is Lord Jesus the True Living God?
The term "Living God" was in common use in the Old Testament, and when Jesus came He was naturally called the "Son of the Living God".
As you indicated, "Living" means alive. On the other hand, "Non- …
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If God is beyond our comprehension how can we comprehend what he wants?
Your question is philosophical, not yet Christian, so to complement other answers, here's one straightforward philosophical answer that focus on logic, language, and reason. I also try to make clear …
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What is the Christian Doctrine that balances God's self-sufficiency and perfection with His ...
The 2 problems
You are correct that if there is something lacking, then there is no perfection in God, so God is perfect. It's also a well established teaching that creation is NOT to complete Him.
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God's presence among us
A Trinitarian answer would be in this lecture Divine Indwelling and the Presence of God where Fr. Legge discusses 3 ways God is present to us: 1) in the order of being; 2) through the Trinitarian life …
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Can one speak of God the Father being both spirit & body?
Thomists (representing the Roman Catholic position) will say yes to "God is in all things", which is as close as to what you said:
Everything that exists both spiritual & physical exist in God.
alth …
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Is a belief that the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are not three persons, but one, Modalism?
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In the history of conceptions regarding God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit there have been names commonly assigned to some of them. Over time, those named conceptions have developed …
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Must a Christian disagree with Bernard Williams and say the concept of truth does have a his...
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Once we understand precisely what Scriptures mean by "God is truth", a Christian CAN AGREE with Bernard Williams that "concept of truth has no history", despite progressive revelation. T …
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If "God" is a Trinity, where in the Bible does the word "God" refer to the Trinity?
The short answer is: nowhere. But your question is misguided.
You cannot disprove the nature of God as Trinity by looking at how the NT authors use the word "God" (Θεός or Κύριος) because within a f …
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Is voluntary passibility consistent with an essentially impassible God?
This short 2015 First Things magazine article The Impassible God of the Bible - Replying to Some Objections mentions one potential objection to the passibility of God.
Concluding paragraph:
Put p …
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Can one pray for something "bad" to happen to yourself?
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As a child of God who is right in asking God for joy and fulfillment, do not ask God to remove a desire unless you simultaneously ask for a better one, because God is most glorified when …
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According to Protestant theology, does God’s omnipresence entail us humans walking into God ...
God's point of view
God is Spirit, so we don't "collide" into God physically. Moreover, God's "primary residence" is in Heaven, which is outside space and time of our universe. But He upholds all cr …
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What is the basis for calling God's love "reckless"?
It's best for Cory Asbury himself to explain the meaning. From SongFacts website entry of his song:
"When I use the phrase, 'the reckless love of God,' I'm not saying that God Himself is reckless. I …
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Does the Christian church have an official position on Beauty?
Yes. From the High Middle Ages, the Catholic Church teaches that we can recognize the three transcendentals of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness as
... objective features of everything that exists, they a …
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According to Protestants is God (The Father or The Spirit) capable of human emotions?
The answer is YES, God is capable of human emotions.
The common topic in theology for this question is the discussion on 2 contrasting attributes of God: passibility vs. impassibility. This answer bo …
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