The Nature of God and Forgiveness

The Forgiving Nature of God:

Someone asked me if God wants to forgive us he could have just said a word or he could have done something, why should he come in the form of man and be crucified?

All I know is that God Loves us and he just does not want to say, but to show - Demonstrate his Love for us. If he has just said a word we would have been forgiven, no doubt about it, but to show us that we should also strive to be like him, because we are made in his image. When we suffer we are not alone, he did not left us alone to suffer. He forgives us our sins and heals all our diseases. He never leaves us nor forsakes us. He has promised that he will be with us for eternity. For which we should be able to live here without sin and with him. He did not chose to leave us free from problems and troubles, but instead he gives us helping hand - Mighty hand and he has a loving heart.

Galatians 6:7 NIV
Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.

Above all God's Nature is Love. He showed us how much he loves us, by sending us his Son - Jesus Christ. We are to acknowledge his love by accepting his Son, who is the only way to the Heavenly Father. His life should be our role model, our all in all, everything. He should be our Author & Finisher of our Faith, He should be our First and the Only Priority in life, He is the Alpha & Omega, He is the Beginning and the End, He is the Great "I AM", He is YAHWEH, He is El Shaddai.

Challenges in understanding the Nature Of God:

How can God be in Human Form? - Jesus Christ


The Omnipotence Paradox is about God's providence on providing:

The omnipotence paradox states that: If a being can perform any action, then it should be able to create a task that it is unable to perform. Hence, this being cannot perform all actions. On the other hand, if this being cannot create a task that it is unable to perform, then there is something it cannot do.

One version of the omnipotence paradox is the so-called paradox of the stone: "Could an omnipotent being create a stone so heavy that even he could not lift it?" If he could lift the rock, then it seems that the being would not have been omnipotent to begin with in that he would have been incapable of creating a heavy enough stone; if he could not lift the stone, then it seems that the being either would never have been omnipotent to begin with or would have ceased to be omnipotent upon his creation of the stone

This paradox sounds something like the Temptation of Jesus Christ on Wilderness.

Matthew 4:3 ►NIV
The tempter came to him and said, "If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread."

Here the question is to make the stone even more larger, that he cannot hold. God is not as what we think who he is. First of all he does't have to make anything to prove who he is. He already exists. So, it is we who need to understand who God is. He does't have to create anything to prove that he exists.

Colossians 1:16 NIV
For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.

For we are the one, we can't do anything with ourselves:

Matthew 5:36 NIV
And do not swear by your head, for you cannot make even one hair white or black.

The Nature of Man and Sin

The Sinful Nature of Man:
It so amazes me that above all creations Man has a specialty. He is given the knowledge of Speech, where he can share his feelings of love and hatred, show his sufferings and joy, anger. etc above all this he is given a knowledge to think and act, not only to react - Like animals, but to think and act. The processing of the information to make everything meaningful for life.

In the processing of making everything meaningful men has reached a far heights, just like the former men who tried to reach up to heaven by building great structures(tower of babel). Today with the invent of new things Man thinks that he could create anything which he wanted, not knowing their consequences.

The once thought gifts of Speech - for better Communication, gift of thought - to think and act has now become a threat to the whole mankind. The new inventions of communication seems to be very friendly and also giving us access to all the info at the point of a touch, but it has built a great wall between the humans for communication. The knowledge and wisdom once thought to give humble attitude, now has a different fact, power and smartness has blinded the vision of what God wants us to do.

2 Timothy 4:1-8New American Standard Bible (NASB)

“Preach the Word”

4 I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is tojudge the living and the dead, and by His appearing and His kingdom: 2 preachthe word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with [a]great patience and instruction. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires, 4 andwill turn away their ears from the truth and will turn aside to myths. 5 But you,be sober in all things, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.

6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. 7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith; 8 in the future there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day; and not only to me, but also to all who have loved His appearing.