God is 3 important parts comprised as one/often referred to as The Holy Trinity. God is God the Father, God the Son (Jesus/The Christ aka The Messiah/The Annointed/The Saviour), and God the Holy Spirit.
God is the Creator of Life and the Universe itself.
God is the almighty, all powerful, and perfect one.
+Bible proof+
Matthew 28:19-Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit(NIV)
Romans 6:23-For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.(KJV)
John 4:25-The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
In Hebrew Christ translates to The Messiah(Messias), which means The Annoited and/or The Saviour.
Luke 11:13-If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?(KJV)
Nehemiah 9:17-...but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness...(KJV)
1 John 3:8-He that committeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil.(KJV)
1 John 1:5-This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.(KJV)
Hebrews 11:3-Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.(KJV)
John 15:26- But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me:
+Non believer proof+
"The 1st Law of Thermodynamics. If it states that you can never have an increase or decrease of energy/matter, which means that matter/energy can not be created from nothingness, how did we get all the matter and energy in the universe? If science is all there is and there is no God, then the 1st Law of Thermodynamics reigns supreme and therefore it would be impossible to have matter and energy in existence right now. Simply put, when you open your eyes and see matter and experience energy, what you see is impossible according to the known Laws of science if, in fact, there is no God. Therefore, science itself says there must be a God."-Bob Dutko.
The authentic Dead Sea Scrolls trace back to 1947, when Bedouin herders found clay jars in Palestine’s Qumran caves that held thousands of parchment scrolls more than 1,800 years old, including some of the oldest surviving copies of the Hebrew Bible per National Geographic.
Qumran is located between Jerusalem(in Israel) and the major Dead Sea beaches.
The Merneptah Stele(a granite/stone slab), which dates to about 1230 BC, was discovered in Thebes, Egypt in the late 1800’s. The Inscription contains a hymn and a list of the Pharaoh's military victories. The Nation of Israel is on the list of conquests, which scholars believe is the earliest reference to Israel(The Hebrew Israelites)outside the Bible.
The Roman historian and senator Tacitus referred to Christ, his execution by Pontius Pilate and the existence of early Christians in Rome in his final work, Annals written around 116 AD, book 15, chapter 44.
1st-century Romano-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus include references to Jesus and the origins of Christianity. Josephus'Antiquities of the Jews, written around 93–94 AD, includes two references to the biblical Jesus Christ in Books 18 and 20 and a reference to John the Baptist in Book 18.
*How should we address God as Christians?*
+Bible proof+
Exodus 3:14-And God said unto Moses, I AM THAT I AM: and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, I AM hath sent me unto you(KJV)
Exodus 6:3-And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.(KJV)
How did Jesus refer to Father God?
+Bible proof+
Mark 14:6-And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.(KJV)
John 17:21&22-That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one.(KJV)
John 4:24-God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.(KJV)
+Non believer proof+
The Tetragrammaton-The Hebrew name of God transliterated* in four letters as YHWH or JHVH and articulated as Yahweh or Jehovah.
(*using the closest corresponding letters of a different alphabet or language.)
"After the Babylonian Exile (6th century BCE), and especially from the 3rd century BCE on, Jews ceased to use the name Yahweh for two reasons. As Judaism became a universal rather than merely local religion, the more common noun Elohim, meaning “God,” tended to replace Yahweh to demonstrate the universal sovereignty of Israel’s God over all others. At the same time, the divine name was increasingly regarded as too sacred to be uttered; it was thus replaced vocally in the synagogue ritual by the Hebrew word Adonai (“My Lord”), which was translated as Kyrios (“Lord”) in the Septuagint, the Greek version of the Hebrew Scriptures.
The Masoretes, who from about the 6th to the 10th century worked to reproduce the original text of the Hebrew Bible, replaced the vowels of the name YHWH with the vowel signs of the Hebrew words Adonai or Elohim. Latin-speaking Christian scholars substituted the Y (which does not exist in Latin) with an I or a J (the latter of which exists in Latin as a variant form of I). Thus, the tetragrammaton became the artificial Latinized name Jehovah (JeHoWaH). As the use of the name spread throughout medieval Europe, the initial letter J was pronounced according to the local vernacular language rather than Latin." -Per Adam Augustyn/Encyclopedia Britannica
To conclude, As Christians I believe that we should respectfully refer to God the way Jesus does in the New Testament of The Bible.
As mentioned earlier, God is God the Father, God the Son (Jesus/The Christ aka The Messiah/The Annointed/The Saviour), and God the Holy Spirit.
As Christians we're able to pray to Father God with help from the Holy Spirit due to Jesus dying on the cross for our sins.
Ephesians 2:18-For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.
*Is Jesus his real name? Does it matter?*
"Jesus' Hebrew name is written as Yeshua(which translates to the English name Joshua).
From Hebrew Yeshua was transliterated(translated using the closest corresponding letters) to Ancient Greek as Iesus and later translated to English as Jesus."
"Changing the language of a word does not affect the meaning of the word. We call a bound and covered set of pages a “book.” In German, it becomes a buch. In Spanish, it is a libro; in French, a livre. The language changes, but the object itself does not. As Shakespeare said, “That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet” (Romeo and Juliet, II:i). In the same way, we can refer to Jesus as “Jesus,” “Yeshua,” or “YehSou” (Cantonese) without changing His nature. In any language, His name means “The Lord Is Salvation.”
We refer to Him as “Jesus” because, as English-speaking people, we know of Him through English translations of the Greek New Testament. Scripture does not value one language over another, and it gives no indication that we must resort to Hebrew when addressing the Lord. The command is to “call on the name of the Lord,” with the promise that we “shall be saved” (Acts 2:21; Joel 2:32). Whether we call on Him in English, Korean, Hindi, or Hebrew, the result is the same: the Lord is salvation."
Reputable Sources:
1.PBS.org.
2.Got Questions Ministries.
3.The Holy Bible.
(Revised and improved by J.Clark 12-11-24.)
