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The True God

The Christian Bible teaches that there is only one true God.  He exists in three persons.  They are God the Father, God the Son (Jesus, or ‘the Word’), and God the Holy Spirit.  Each is perfect, equal in character and power.  They function together perfectly in love and unity. 

God created all things, and still reigns as King over all.

The Bible reveals that God is eternal, holy, good, all-powerful, all-knowing and wise, merciful and willing to forgive, and just. Scripture states that God is love. 

The Holy Spirit points people to the Son (Jesus Christ), and works to establish the benefits (everything needed for life and godliness, and eternal life) won for them through Jesus’ death on the cross and His resurrection.  The Son brings people to the Father, who is fulfilling His purposes for eternity.  The Father seeks to actively be our Father in heaven, but allows us free choice.  He does not want mindless robots.  God is kind, and does everything possible to lead us to Himself and save us from our sin.  But, in the end, He cannot ignore sin in the unrepentant heart.

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The earth does not seem a perfect place. 

This is because of Satan (the devil), an angel who rebelled against God.  Long ago Satan tempted the first man and woman God made, and they disobeyed God, falling into sin.  This state of sin is passed on to every person born.  Satan and evil spirits he commands are still active deceiving people, and tempting them to sin. 

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In time, in God’s wisdom, all evil caused by Satan and fallen mankind will be eradicated.

Satan, and all who have remained in a fallen state of sin, will suffer eternal judgement.  In God’s love, there will be a new earth and a new heaven free of evil and its consequences. God’s perfect kingdom of love and truth with His children will then be fully realised for eternity.

  • "⁵ Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: ⁶ Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: ⁷ But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: ⁸ And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross."

    —Philippians 2:5-8

  • "¹⁰ Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. ¹¹ I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour."

    —Isaiah 43:10-11

  • "¹⁹ Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost"

    —Matthew 28:19

  • "²⁸ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. ²⁹ He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength."

    —Isaiah 40:28-29

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