Who is God?

The question, who is God, is a good question. It is better than asking, what is God? This is because God exists, created us, loves us, is concerned for our being, desires to provide for us, and sent the Son to redeem us.

If we were to ask, what is God, we might be tempted to say that God is the infinite being, the creator, a presence, or something like that. In some respect, this would be true, but the first question brings us closer to understanding more of who God really is in His character and His love for us as revealed in the Bible.

The One God Who Created and Redeems

The Bible teaches us that in all existence, for all eternity, there has been and always will be only one God. God was never created. He is completely loving, completely just, completely holy, completely merciful, and that He desires the best for us.

God's Holiness and His Relation to Sin

God is holy, and He can have nothing to do with sin, as the Bible says. In Habakkuk 1 .13, it says, His eyes are too pure to look upon evil. This does not mean that God cannot see what someone does that is wrong.

It is a way of describing how holy God is. God cannot sin. He is perfect. In Christianity, God is a trinity. This means that God is three persons, not three gods. Technically, the doctrine of the Trinity states that in the one God is the person of the Father, and the person of the Son, and the person of the Holy Spirit.

Each is not the same person as the other, yet there are not three gods, but one. This is similar in analogy to the nature of time. Time is past, present, and future. The past is not the same as the present, which is not the same as the future.

But there are not three times. There is only one thing called time. The reason the word person is used in describing the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit is because each exhibits attributes of personhood, not in a body of flesh and bones, but in personality.

In other words, each has a will, each loves and speaks, is aware of others, communicates with others, etc. These are attributes of personhood, and we see the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit each demonstrating these qualities.

The Trinity Revealed in Scripture

Because of the Trinity, God can become flesh in the form of the Son and still exist in such a way that He can run the universe. Therefore, the Son can communicate to us on our level. Following are a couple of verses that hint at the Trinity.

Matthew 28, 19 says, Go, therefore, and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. 2 Corinthians 13, 14. The Bible says there is only one God.

Isaiah 45, 5 says, I am the Lord, and there is no other. Besides me there is no God. Yet the Bible teaches that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are each called God. Each of the persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, speak, and each has a will.

Each says, You, Yours, Me, and Mine. So we see in the persons of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit three distinct wills, three who can speak, three who are aware of others as well as themselves.

Therefore, we say that the Trinity is one God in three persons.