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Explains theology proper as the study of God's being and Fatherhood, known only through His self-revelation.
GodThe outstretched arm pictures God's saving strength, first shown in the exodus and ultimately revealed in Christ.
GodGod cannot suffer in His own nature, yet Scripture reveals real divine grief and love, most fully shown in the incarnate Son.
GodExplores 1 John's claim that God is love, showing this love is proven at Bethlehem and Calvary, not mere sentiment.
GodGod exists outside time as the eternal 'I AM,' unchanged and unhurried, yet He works patiently within history.
GodExplains God's wrath as righteous, judicial anger against sin, borne by Christ at the cross for those who trust Him.
GodScripture presents God as a personal, self-revealing being who acts and loves, not an impersonal abstract Form contemplated by the mind.
GodGod's power is limitless, but He cannot act against His own nature—He cannot lie, sin, or deny Himself.
GodGod transcends gender, but Scripture's own words like 'Father' and 'He' were divinely given, not human inventions to revise.
GodScripture rarely shows God laughing, and when it does, it is derisive laughter at rebellious mankind's powerless schemes.
GodOmnificent means God creates without limit, making everything from nothing by His word and sustaining all things by His will.
GodExplains how God is unchanging and complete in Himself yet truly feels love and grief, and suffered in the humanity the Son took.
GodGod's love goes to any length to save sinners, but it is never careless, always holy, and measured at the cross.
GodThe 'rock paradox' fails because it demands a self-contradiction, and God's power is defined by His nature, not by logical absurdities.
GodGod's love finds its source and motive entirely in Himself, not in any merit found in us, and the cross reveals rather than creates that love.
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