God's attributes and acts prove that He can be trusted #2

God's acts point to His attributes


    As we have seen in the case of the Creation event, when God spoke things into being, we can learn from the acts of God a little bit of what He is like. What can we learn from the very first verse of the Bible, and the very first event in time and space, about the nature of God? First, God exists. I know that seems simple, but, think about it. God can't create without existing, can he? He must also be powerful to be able to create. If God was there before the Creation event to plan it in the first place, then He is eternal, and not bound by time. He must also be pretty smart, brilliant, in fact, to have created all of the systems and sub-systems in the entire universe from the macro level to the micro and quantum level. As we mentioned before, we also find out that God is self-existent, that is, he doesn't need the universe He created to exist Himself, but rather it's the other way round. But we also see that he can act in and upon the creation He made. So on a short little look at the very first few words of the Bible we can see that God is self-existent, eternal, really powerful (in fact, all powerful), quite knowledgeable (really, all-knowing), transcendent (over and above), and immanent (all through and within). So it is easy to see that God's acts recorded in history show us His attributes.