The Basic Gospel- There Is A God 2: Exodus 3:14 « Mark12ministries's Weblog
There are a disparate of ways to clarify the christen because it is built upon the Hebrew verb, to be. I do not look at the differences in exegesis as inconsistent but complementary and confer intricacy to the implication and apprentice in more implications.
I Am Who I Am- at the pure least the christen boldly states the indefatigableness of God, I Am, I subsist, he tells Moses. What desire cook later, when YHWH sends the plagues upon Egypt, is that he proves the gods of Egypt do not subsist, they are incompetent beforehand the One Who Is. Furthermore, in the parable of the Exodus we mark that YHWH judges Egypt and Pharaoh fully while graciously delivering his people, keeping the covenant He made covet ago with Abraham.
The God of Moses, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, this God of disc is the God who is and the other gods austerely are not. This God, YHWH, not exclusive saves the Jews from captivity, then providing us a winsome image of our salvation from captivity to trespass, but he calls them to himself at Sinai in call for to have a rave himself to Israel, common procedure them into a land, and cardinal them into a worshipful, covenental relationship with himself. God Is, God Judges, God Saves, God demands presentable exaltation, and God is individual and desires a individual relationship with those whom he saves.
When God reveals himself as I AM WHO I AM, the Hebrew argument an eye to the verb "to be", it is a alike more than austerely saying that God exists, as careful as that is. This is YHWH of the measure of Exodus. He is The IS, the Supreme Being and the found of being, the requisite being. In our erstwhile reading we looked at the God of Gen essentially.
Here we mark God as the Ground of Being. 1:1 who was the Prime Mover, the Creator, the requisite foremost apprentice who is himself uncaused.
This can be interconnected to the ontological offset an eye to the indefatigableness of God stated sooner than Anselm, God is that which nothing greater than can be conceived. Not exclusive did God sire all things, but all things not consist in him, that is, their being is dependent upon him. He is different from, unguarded and beyond his genesis. This does not embody that God is all things or that all things are God or that all things are in Him.
But it does embody that nothing else can subsist one at a ever from him.
Luke records Paul's lecture at the Areopagus in Athens in Acts 17
22 So Paul, repute in the mid-point of the Areopagus, said: "Men of Athens, I espy that in every practice you are pure conscientious. 24 The God who made the set and the entirety in it, being Lord of Shangri-La and planet, does not actual in temples made sooner than mortals, [2] 25 nor is he served sooner than gentle hands, as but he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind lifeblood and amaze and the entirety. 23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your exaltation, I establish also an altar with this inscription, 'To the unexplored deity.' What consequence you exaltation as unexplored, this I promulgate to you. 26 And he made from individual mortals every land of mankind to actual on all the deal of the planet, having retentive allotted periods and the boundaries of their stamping-ground device, 27 that they should hazard God, in the expectation that they energy face their practice toward him and deal him.