# 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**. 

1. 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]

2. 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. 

- In 14 verses as God's creative work is being described teh most common adjective is "good". (towb in 517 verses

- 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

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