__NOTOC__{{quote | text={{Bible verse|Genesis|1|1|lang=WEB}} [[Genesis 1:1]]}}{{Infobox_Contents | topic_name = God | subtopics = [[Character of God]] - [[God is the creator]], [[God is love]], [[God is holy]], [[God is forgiving]]* [[Trinity]] - [[God the Father]], [[Jesus Christ]], [[Holy Spirit]]* [[Names of God]] | opinion_pieces = {{short_opinions}}* {{ebd}}* Sermon: [[Luke 15 - What is God like? (G.G.)]]}} God is the central being of all existence. He is eternal in that he has no beginning and no end. In the [[Genesis 1|first chapter of the first book]] of [[Bible]] an account is given of God creating the universe and the earth and creating people in his own image. The Bible also reveals that God is full of [[God is forgiving|mercy]] and [[God is love|love]] (for example [[1 John 4:8]]. Millions of people in the world trust in God as their master and Lord and also their saviour. He is a personal being, who is three in one - [[God the Father|Father]], [[Jesus Christ|Son]] and [[Holy Spirit]]. The Bible also reveals that God stands ready to come into any person's life when that person acknowledges him and repents of having not lived his way. ===[[Character of God]]=== Although the mere existence of God can be deduced by natural reason his nature is beyond our understanding. He gives life to all and he is the author of love and forgiveness. [[John 1:4]] describes this beautifully:: ''{{Bible verse|John|1|4|lang=WEB}}'' God is also completely [[holy]] and without any evil. At the same time God is forgiving and merciful and full of love. {{sectionstub}} ===[[Trinity]]=== The Trinity is the Christian [[doctrine]] (or teaching) that describes the three-in-one (triune) nature of God. Although impossible to fully grasp, the Bible reveals that there is one and only one God, and also that the [[God the Father|Father]] is God, and yet [[Jesus]] the Son is God, and also the [[Holy Spirit]] is God. That is, there is one God who eternally exists in three distinct persons. {{sectionstub}} ==Quotes== Sri Aurobindo, in ''Thoughts and Aphorisms'': A God who cannot smile could not have created this humorous universe. Robertson Davies in ''Conversations'': A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself. Albert Einstein : Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish
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==Synopsis==[[C.S. Lewis]]: God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.: God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.: If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.
God Galileo Galilei (1564 ~ 1642): I do not think it is necessary to believe that the central being. He created the earth and he created man in his own image. same God is full of mercy who has given us our senses, reason, and love. Millions of people in the world confess God as intelligence wished us to abandon their Lord and saviour. He is a personal beinguse, who is three in one - [[God giving us by some other means the Father|Father]], [[Jesus Christ|Son]] and [[Holy Spirit]]. God stands ready to come into any person's life when information that person confesses him and repent - this is when you are [[born again]]we could gain through them.
==Contents==Yiddish proverb, : If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
{{also}} {{ebd}}J.R.R. Tolkien: If you do not believe in a personal God the question: `What is the purpose of life?' is unaskable and unanswerable.
{{topics}}Thomas Jefferson * [[Character of God]] - [[God is the creator]] | [[God is love]] | [[God is holy]] | [[God is forgiving]]* [[Trinity]] - [[God the Father]] | [[Jesus Christ]] | [[Holy Spirit]]* [[Names of God]]: It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.
{{opinions}}Immanuel Kant* Sermon: [[Luke 15 - What Reason can never prove the existence of God. Emily Dickinson : They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse. Catherine Doherty: With God like? (G, every moment is the moment of beginning again.G Unknown source: You can live without God, but you better not die without him.)]]
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==Main article==[[1 John 4:16]]: God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.
God is the central being. He created everything that exists. He is full of mercy and love. He is a personal being, who is three in one - [[God the Father|Father]], [[Jesus Christ|Son]] and [[Holy Spirit1 John 1:5]]: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.
===[[Character of GodExodus 3:14]]===(King James Version): God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you.
[[Isaiah 45]]:5-7 (King James Version): I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God's nature beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is beyond our understandingnone beside me. He gives life to all I am the LORD, and he there is none else. I form the author of love light, and forgiveness. He is completely holy create darkness: I make peace, and without any create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
===[[Trinity]]===Spike Milligan: And God said, 'Let there be light' and there was light, but the Electricity Board said he would have to wait until Thursday to be connected.
The Trinity is the Christian [[doctrine]] describing the triune nature of Woody Allen: If only Godwould give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. The doctrine asserts the following: there is one and only one How can I believe in God; when just last week I got my tongue caught in the Father is God, [[Jesus]] the Son is God, and the [[Holy Spirit]] is God; the one God eternally exists in three distinct persons.roller of an electric typewriter?
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