![]() ![]() As this plurality appears in so many parts of the sacred writings to be confined to three Persons, hence the doctrine of the TRINITY, which has formed a part of the creed of all those who have been deemed sound in the faith, from the earliest ages of Christianity. The original word אלהים Elohim, God, is certainly the plural form of אל El, or אלה Eloah, and has long been supposed, by the most eminently learned and pious men, to imply a plurality of Persons in the Divine nature. ![]() Reader, such is the God of the Bible but how widely different from the God of most human creeds and apprehensions! In a word, a Being who, from his infinite wisdom, cannot err or be deceived and who, from his infinite goodness, can do nothing but what is eternally just, right, and kind. Many attempts have been made to define the term GOD: as to the word itself, it is pure Anglo-Saxon, and among our ancestors signified, not only the Divine Being, now commonly designated by the word, but also good as in their apprehensions it appeared that God and good were correlative terms and when they thought or spoke of him, they were doubtless led from the word itself to consider him as THE GOOD BEING, a fountain of infinite benevolence and beneficence towards his creatures.Ī general definition of this great First Cause, as far as human words dare attempt one, may be thus given: The eternal, independent, and self-existent Being: the Being whose purposes and actions spring from himself, without foreign motive or influence: he who is absolute in dominion the most pure, the most simple, and most spiritual of all essences infinitely benevolent, beneficent, true, and holy: the cause of all being, the upholder of all things infinitely happy, because infinitely perfect and eternally self-sufficient, needing nothing that he has made: illimitable in his immensity, inconceivable in his mode of existence, and indescribable in his essence known fully only to himself, because an infinite mind can be fully apprehended only by itself. ![]() בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ Bereshith bara Elohim eth hashshamayim veeth haarets GOD in the beginning created the heavens and the earth. Dictionaries: American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Astronomy Creation Miracle Rings Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Creation God Heaven Holy spirit Miracles Trinity Word Yahweh Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Colossians, Theology of Create, Creation Genesis, Theology of God God, Names of Heaven, Heavens, Heavenlies Immorality, Sexual King, Christ as Light New Heavens and a New Earth Philosophy Word World Worship Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God Omnipotence of God Easton Bible Dictionary - Creation Heaven Fausset Bible Dictionary - Adam (1) Creation Genesis, the Book of Holman Bible Dictionary - Adam Birds Creation Earth, Land Famine and Drought Fountain Genesis God Host of Heaven Infinite Number Systems and Number Symbolism Perfect Time, Meaning of Word World, the Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Creation Dualism Earth Genesis Greek Versions of Ot Hexateuch Idolatry Image Logos Man Praise Sabbath Stars Time World Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Angels Quotations Morrish Bible Dictionary - Creation Earth God People's Dictionary of the Bible - Heaven Smith Bible Dictionary - Earth Heaven Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Gods Trinity ![]()
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