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Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind
you have no idea where god came from or how he evolved, if he is eternal, in what state he has been for all of eternity past. you do not define a christian. my statements are based on the observations of the philosopher friedrich schelling.
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I don't believe God came from anywhere other than Heaven nor evolved. Don't give me New Age garbage to read. Show me the bible..
Your New Age and secular Philosophy defines a different god.
The God of the bible is the Eternally Existing one.
Yours is the Eternally evolving one. You come across more as a New Ager than a Christian. You seek answers from New Age Gurus like Deepak and secular philosophers like friedrich schelling
But on the other hand, the Scripture always asserts in unmistakable terms the unchangeableness of God. He is unchangeable in His nature. Although the name 'Ēl Shadday, by which He made Himself known in the patriarchal period of revelation, denotes especially God's power, this name by no means exhausts the revelation of God in that period. His unchangeableness is involved in His eternity as made known to Abraham (
Gen_21:33). This attribute finds its clearest expression in the name Yahweh as revealed to Moses, the significance of which is unfolded in the passage
Exo_3:13-15. God here reveals Himself to His people as “I AM THAT I AM,” using the future tense of the verb “to be,” which, as the context shows, is given as the meaning of the name Yahweh. Some recent writers would derive these words from the Hiphil stem of the verb, and affirm that it signifies that God is the giver of life. The verb, however, is in the Qal stem, the tense denoting the changeless continuity of the life and nature of God. The idea expressed is not merely that of self-existence, but also of unchangeableness, and this unchangeableness, as the context clearly indicates (especially
Exo_3:15), is here set forth not simply as belonging to the nature of God in Himself, but is brought into closest connection with His covenant relation to His people, so that the religious value of God's unchangeableness is most clearly implied in this fundamental assertion of the attribute. The same idea of God's immutability is reaffirmed in the prophecy of Isaiah. It is connected with the name Yahweh (
Isa_41:4; compare also
Isa_48:12), where Yahweh affirms that He is the first and, with the last, the same God, thereby asserting not merely His eternity, but also that He is the same in His divine existence throughout all ages. This attribute, moreover, is claimed by Yahweh, and set forth as an especial mark of His Godhead in
Isa_44:6. The unchangeableness of the divine nature is also asserted by the prophet Malachi in a difficult passage (
Mal_3:6). This is a clear affirmation of the unchangeableness of God, the only question being whether it is set forth as the ground of Israel's confidence, or in contrast with their fickleness, a question which depends partly on that of the text.
In the New Testament the thought of the passage in
Exodus 3 is reiterated in the Apocalypse where God is described as He who is and was and is to come (
Rev_1:4). This is an expansion of the covenant name Yahweh in
Exo_3:13-15, denoting not merely eternity but also immutability. The phrases “the Alpha and the Omega” (
Rev_1:8;
Rev_21:6;
Rev_22:13); and “the first and the last” (
Rev_1:17;
Rev_22:13); and “the beginning and the end” (
Rev_21:6;
Rev_22:13) bring out the same idea, and are applied to Christ as well as to God, which is a clear indication of our Lord's Deity. The apostle Paul likewise asserts the incorruptibility, eternity and immortality of the divine nature, all of which ideas imply the unchangeableness of God (
Rom_1:23; 1Ti_1:17; 1Ti_6:16).
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