Beliefs about the nature of God + Philosophy and Ethics Spec

Beliefs about the nature of God:

 What God is like for Christians:

• There is only one God (stated in Ten Commandments
• omnipresent       (everywhere at once)
• omnipotent          (all powerful) 
• immanent            (God is present in the world and the universe and can act                                          directly in the world)
• transcendent       (God is outside, beyond the universe and space and time)
• omniscient          (all knowing, all seeing)
• eternal
• acts in best interests of His creation
• God is the Creator of the world and everything in it
• God will judge everyone individually
• God has a purpose for the world although we cannot know what it is 

Biblical for the nature of God:

First of the Ten Commandments
"I am the Lord you God...thou shalt have no other Gods before me"

Psalm 86:5
"O Lord you are so good, so ready to forgive, so full of unfailling love for all who do ask your aid." 

John 21:17
"Lord you know everything"

John 4:8
"Anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love"

Matthew 19:26
"With God everything is possible"