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No one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son, who is himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father, has made him known. In the Good News Translation of the Bible the text reads: No one has ever seen God. The only Son, who is the same as God and is at the Father's side, he has made him known.
"For if one knows himself, he will know God; and knowing God, he will be made like God" [Primary 5] "[H]is is beauty, the true beauty, for it is God; and that man becomes God, since God so wills. Heraclitus, then, rightly said, "Men are gods, and gods are men." For the Word Himself is the manifest mystery: God in man, and man God" [Primary 5]
Harnack’s work was considered to be a rediscovering of the concept of the Hidden and Revealed God whereby ‘the notion of hiddenness expresses a double relation of God to the world: outside of Christ he is the free, all-working, majestic God of the Law; in Christ he is the gracious Redeemer who has bound himself to his Word and Sacraments ...
God has revealed himself to us in the Bible as having always existed. [6] Ray Comfort, author and evangelist, writes: No person or thing created God. He created "time," and because we dwell in the dimension of time, reason demands that all things have a beginning and an end. God, however, dwells outside of the dimension of time.
He wrote: "[T]he Christian Church believes the Bible to be the Word of God", and that "Christian faith is Bible faith". [32] He also wrote: "Yes, God has made known the secret of His will through the Prophets and Apostles in the Holy Scriptures". [33] Brunner rhetorically asked, "Is the whole Bible God's Word then?";
In general revelation, God reveals himself through his creation, such that at least some truths about God can be learned by the empirical study of nature, physics, cosmology, etc., to an individual. Special revelation is the knowledge of God and spiritual matters which can be discovered through supernatural means, such as scripture or miracles ...
This ruler has sometimes been deemed a God-king. [6] Purnawarman: 395–434 CE The king of Sundanese Indianised kingdom called Tarumanagara. According to these inscriptions he embarked on hydraulic project [7]: 53–54 and also identified himself with Vishnu, which indicates he and his kingdom were adhering to the Vishnuite faith. The Sailendras
In Christianity, God is the eternal, supreme being who created and preserves all things. [5] Christians believe in a monotheistic conception of God, which is both transcendent (wholly independent of, and removed from, the material universe) and immanent (involved in the material universe). [6]