Who is God? …part 2
In the first half of Lesson #4, we learned that the Bible is only place to turn for the answer to this question. And in the second half of this lesson, we studied one of God's names from the Old Testament – El Qanna. Our God is a Jealous God. There are 5-Biblical references to El Quanna: Exodus 20:5, 34:14, Deuteronomy 4:24, 5:9 and 6:15.
As opposed to the common definition of jealousy, Del described this jealousy as: Zeal, when sin threatens a covenant relationship.
Salvation is a covenant relationship – accepting Christ as our savior and inviting him into our hearts, "…old things are passed away, and behold all things become new…" An eternal change happens as our names are written in the Book of Life. It's amazing, wonderful and comforting that God is jealous for relationship with ME!
R.C. Scroll explains that the basis of Truth is grounded on two principals:
1. The Existence of God
2. The Trustworthiness of the Bible
It's no surprise to see our enemy attack both of these foundational principals. Del talked about a couple of examples:
Francois-Marie Arouet (who gave himself the pen name of VOLTAIRE), proclaimed that in 100-years, the Bible would be removed from everywhere except museums. Within 100-years, his home had been acquired and was being used for Bible translation, and distribution.
In 1894 Robert G. Ingersoll, wrote a book called, "About the Holy Bible." I scanned excerpts this morning and in all of my years, I've never seen such a demonic attack on the Bible. In every way possible, he rails against it – I could literally feel the evil of it's origin and for this reason, I won't recite excerpts here. But one of Ingersoll's predictions was that because of his writings, in 15-years the Bible would be in the morgue. 15-years from his prediction, Mr. Ingersoll was in the morgue.
In an event called, "The Jesus Seminar" Julius Wellhausen systematically attacks the authenticity of Jesus words in the Bible. He attempted to recalibrate what Jesus actually said with a new color scheme:
- RED for the words Jesus actually spoke,
- PINK for the works Jesus probably spoke,
- GRAY for the words He did not say, but closely resembled His words,
- BLACK for the words He did not say.
You can guess his results – according to Wellhausen, 82% of the words attributed to Jesus were not actually spoken by Him.
Ezekiel 22:26-28 describes those of his day who would call a lie, truth (and their motivation for doing so):
26 – Her priests do violence to my law and profane my holy things; they do not distinguish between the holy and the common; they teach that there is no difference between the unclean and the clean; and they shut their eyes to the keeping of my Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
27 – Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey; they shed blood and kill people to make unjust gain.
28 – Her prophets whitewash these deeds for them by false visions and lying divinations. They say, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says'--when the LORD has not spoken.
I've always been interested in the names the Bible uses to describe God. I found this list, which is not exhaustive, but I thought you might like to see it. By the way, the blue text below is a direct link to a more complete definition of each name.
El Shaddai (Lord God Almighty)
El Elyon (The Most High God)
Adonai (Lord, Master)
Yahweh (Lord, Jehovah)
Jehovah Nissi (The Lord My Banner)
Jehovah-Raah (The Lord My Shepherd)
Jehovah Rapha (The Lord That Heals)
Jehovah Shammah (The Lord Is There)
Jehovah Tsidkenu (The Lord Our Righteousness)
Jehovah Mekoddishkem (The Lord Who Sanctifies You)
El Olam (The Everlasting God)
Elohim (God)
Qanna (Jealous)
Jehovah Jireh (The Lord Will Provide)
Jehovah Shalom (The Lord Is Peace)
Jehovah Sabaoth (The Lord of Hosts)
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