Goodness and God
DOCTRINAL: God is the only non-created.
Questions to Explore
- How does a created being related to the ONLY non-creating Being?
- What obligations are there owed to the Creator?
- God is the SOURCE fall things and God is GOOD.
- God is THE Creator (He caused it all; He is the uncaused cause)
- GOD in the beginning created the heavens and the earth
Genesis 1:1 — In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. [1:21,27; 2:3-4; 5:1-2; 6:7]
- God is GOOD and what HE does is good.
- GOD? ENGLISH ETYMOLOGY => THE GOOD BEING, a fountain of infinite benevolence and beneficence towards his creatures.
God is the ultimate definition of good. Imagine a massive, never-ending waterfall, but instead of pumping out water, it's constantly pouring out pure love, kindness, and awesome things for everyone and everything He created. God is the source of good will and generosity -- wishing good and doing good.
HEBREW: towb: beautiful, best, better, bountiful, cheerful, at ease, X fair (word), (be in) favour, fine, glad, good (deed, -lier, -liest, -ly, -ness, -s), graciously, joyful, kindly, kindness, liketh (best), loving, merry, X most, pleasant, + pleaseth, pleasure, precious, prosperity, ready, GREEK: agathos: a primary word; "good" (in any sense, often as noun):--benefit, good(-s, things), well.
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In 14 verses as God's creative work is being described teh most common adjective is "good". (towb in 517 verses
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This fact is an anchor in language (The grand and unparalleled privileges of the Israelites):
Deuteronomy 4:32 — For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?
Exodus 18:9 — And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel, whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians.
- God alone is described as "good"? Rich young ruler
Mark 10:18 — And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God.
- Therefore the circle is completed that to be truly "good" is to be godly.
That which proceeds from God, and is pleasing to him. It also signifies conformity to his will, and an assimilation to his character, Ps 12:1; Mal 2:15; 2Co 1:2; Tit 2:12 Godliness is the substance of revealed religion, 1Ti 3:16; 4:8; 2Pe 1:6