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The Greatness of God Examining Gods CV Who is God? Our tendency is to use mental mathematics when thinking about God. God = good I think XYZ = good Therefore God = XYZ Who is God? Who is God? We decide based on

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The Greatness

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Examining God’s CV

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Who is God?

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Our tendency is to use mental mathematics when thinking about God.

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  • God = “good”
  • I think XYZ = “good”
  • Therefore God = XYZ
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Who is God?

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Who is God?

We decide based on who we think he should be

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Who is God?

We decide based on who we think he should be God reveals himself to us truly

God

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Revelation (the Bible) becomes our key to overcoming our natural tendency to shape God

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God continued to reveal himself in great detail and clarity through Scripture

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God’s revelation gives light and color to our understanding

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God’s CV

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“God is love” – 1 Jn. 4:8

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God is all-loving

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God is all-loving God has affection toward us

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God is all-loving

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God is all-loving God does not lust for us

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God is all-loving God does not lust for us

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God is all-loving

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God is all-loving God is concerned for our good

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God is all-loving God is concerned for our good

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God is all-loving

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God is all-loving God loves us parentally

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God is all-loving God loves us parentally

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There are two sides to every coin

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There are two sides to every coin Love

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There are two sides to every coin Love Hate

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There are two sides to every coin Love Hate

  • Eccl. 3:8
  • Isa. 61:8

Amos 5:15

  • Rom. 12:9

Lk 6:27-36

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How does God both love and hate?

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How does God both love and hate?

They are two sides to the same coin

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How does God both love and hate?

They are two sides to the same coin

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Because we “love” our children…

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Because we “love” our children… …We hate what harms/ruins them

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Luke 6:27-36 – I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. … If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. … But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

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Luke 6:27-36 – I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. … If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. … But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

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Luke 6:27-36 – I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. … If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. … But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

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Luke 6:27-36 – I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. … If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. … But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

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Luke 6:27-36 – I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. … If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. … But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

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Luke 6:27-36 – I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. … If you love those who love you, what benefit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. … But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.

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Socrates and Euthyphro

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Mark 1:1 - The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

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Mark 1:1 - The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.

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If Jesus brings good news, what is the news without Jesus?

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If Jesus brings good news, what is the news without Jesus?

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Who is God?

We decide based on who we think he should be God reveals himself to us truly

God

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Who is God?

We decide based on who we think he should be God reveals himself to us truly

God

We tend to develop a religion of

“fairness”

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We think all is okay if our good deeds

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We think all is okay if our good deeds

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Matthew 5:29 – If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one

  • f your members than

that your whole body be thrown into hell.

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Matthew 3:12 – His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire

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Matthew 5:46-48 – For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

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Why is God so hung up about sin?

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Socrates and Euthyphro

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Euthyphro’s Dilemma: What makes something moral?

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Euthyphro’s Dilemma: What makes something moral?

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Euthyphro’s Dilemma: What makes something moral?

The moral equivalent to, “What came first, the chicken or the egg?

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Euthyphro’s Dilemma: What makes something moral?

Option 1 Some actions are “holy” in themselves and for that reason the gods love those actions.

The moral equivalent to, “What came first, the chicken or the egg?

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Euthyphro’s Dilemma: What makes something moral?

Option 1 Some actions are “holy” in themselves and for that reason the gods love those actions. Option 2 Some actions loved by the gods, and that is what makes those actions “holy.”.

The moral equivalent to, “What came first, the chicken or the egg?

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God IS moral!

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If God is 100% pure, how do we fit in when we are less than 100%?

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Matthew 7:19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire

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Matthew 13:41-42 The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all causes of sin and all law-breakers, and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth

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How does God’s all-loving trait merge with his hatred of evil trait?

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Look to God as the good one

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Look to God as the good one

“No one is good except God alone” – Lk 18:19

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Take sin seriously

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Take sin seriously

“And you were dead in the trespasses and sins ” – Eph. 2:1

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Walk in God’s mercy

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Walk in God’s mercy

“But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ ” – Eph. 2:4-5

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The Greatness

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Examining God’s CV