March 28, 2019

Theology 9 — God

52 minutes

Today we’ll tackle the biggest question of all: who is God? We’ll take a journey through scripture together to discover what God is like, stopping at key moments to consider what this or that interaction tells us about him.

—— Notes ——

theology: one’s understanding of God

Ontology vs. Functionality

ontology: understanding something based on what it is (it’s essence)

tendency to define God based on what he is (omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent)

perfect being theology: reasons from perfection to generate characteristics that God must have independent from what he reveals about himself in the bible

bible tends to define God based on what he’s done and his relationship w/ people

Creator desiring trusting relationships

creation

Adam and Eve

Limited participant in human affairs

in time, with us, not aloof (we’ll get to predestination later)

Cain and Able

warns Cain

does not force him or prevent him

Lamech

Heartbroken exception maker

Nephilim

Gen 6

Noah’s flood

Preemptive preventer

Babel

the God of Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob

the call (Gen 12.1-4)

Yahweh is going to be Abraham’s God

he’ll have his back

bless those who bless

curse those who curse

he’s just looking for someone to believe him, to trust him, to do what he says

three tests of trust

leave your land

circumcise yourself and all your men

the Akedah (binding of Isaac)

with Abraham and Sarah we find the opposite of Adam and Eve

believed God’s promises

left their native land to be with God in promised land

trusted God to perform the impossible

over time grew more faithful

died trusting God

by the end of all of this, God irreversibly yoke’s himself to this family through covenants

covenant faithfulness and chesed

henceforth, God’s dealings w/ Abraham affect how he PRIMARILY refers to himself

I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

Powerful liberator and god-mocker

burning bush

how does God introduce himself to Moses?

the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

the name

Pharaoh’s question (Ex 5.1)

10 plagues as God telling Egypt and the world who he is vis-à-vis the Egyptian gods

he is the God above all other gods

Passover meal memorializes the historical event of God liberating Israel

this is how God intends to imprint faith on each generation (festivals)

Exclusive moralist

ten commandments begin w/ several statements of exclusivity

singular pronouns!

whenever anyone ever uses a pronoun for God in the bible it is singular: he, him, his, you (sg.)

basic moral code

8 attributes of God

Exodus 34.6-7

6 The LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, 7 keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”

chesed (חֶסֶד)

John Goldingay: “It is sometimes described as covenant love, though in the OT it rarely appears in the company of the word “covenant.” It is used in two connections: when someone makes an act of commitment for which there is no reason in terms of prior relatio

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March 28, 2019

Theology 9 — God

52 minutes

—— Notes ——

theology: one’s understanding of God

Ontology vs. Functionality

ontology: understanding something based on what it is (it’s essence)

tendency to define God based on what he is (omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent)

perfect being theology: reasons from perfection to generate characteristics that God must have independent from what he reveals about himself in the bible

bible tends to define God based on what he’s done and his relationship w/ people

Creator desiring trusting relationships

creation

Adam and Eve

Limited participant in human affairs

in time, with us, not aloof (we’ll get to predestination later)

Cain and Able

warns Cain

does not force him or prevent him

Lamech

Heartbroken exception maker

Nephilim

Gen 6

Noah’s flood

Preemptive preventer

Babel

the God of Abraham, Isaac, & Jacob

the call (Gen 12.1-4)

Yahweh is going to be Abraham’s God

he’ll have his back

bless those who bless

curse those who curse

he’s just looking for someone to believe him, to trust him, to do what he says

three tests of trust

leave your land

circumcise yourself and all your men

the Akedah (binding of Isaac)

with Abraham and Sarah we find the opposite of Adam and Eve

believed God’s promises

left their native land to be with God in promised land

trusted God to perform the impossible

over time grew more faithful

died trusting God

by the end of all of this, God irreversibly yoke’s himself to this family through covenants

covenant faithfulness and chesed

henceforth, God’s dealings w/ Abraham affect how he PRIMARILY refers to himself

I am the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

Powerful liberator and god-mocker

burning bush

how does God introduce himself to Moses?

the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob

the name

Pharaoh’s question (Ex 5.1)

10 plagues as God telling Egypt and the world who he is vis-à-vis the Egyptian gods

he is the God above all other gods

Passover meal memorializes the historical event of God liberating Israel

this is how God intends to imprint faith on each generation (festivals)

Exclusive moralist

ten commandments begin w/ several statements of exclusivity

singular pronouns!

whenever anyone ever uses a pronoun for God in the bible it is singular: he, him, his, you (sg.)

basic moral code

8 attributes of God

Exodus 34.6-7

chesed (חֶסֶד)

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