Nature of God

Key Aspects of God's Nature
- Omnipotence: God's all-powerful nature, capable of doing anything that is consistent with His character and will.
- Omniscience: God's all-knowing nature, possessing complete and perfect knowledge of everything past, present, and future.
- Omnipresence: God's presence everywhere at all times, transcending space and time.
- Eternality: God's existence without beginning or end, existing outside of time.
- Holiness: God's absolute moral purity and separateness from sin.
- Immutability: God's unchanging nature in His essence, attributes, and promises.
- Love: God is love, showing perfect love and compassion towards His creation.
- Justice: God is just, ensuring that righteousness prevails and that sin is judged appropriately.
- Mercy and Grace: God is merciful and gracious, offering forgiveness and blessings beyond what is deserved.
- Sovereignty: God is sovereign; He has supreme power and authority.
Scripture References to Aspects of God's Nature
Omnipotence (All-Powerful)
- Genesis 17:1 (KJV): "And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect."
- Job 42:2 (KJV): "I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee."
- Isaiah 40:28 (KJV): "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."
- Jeremiah 32:17 (KJV): "Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee."
- Matthew 19:26 (KJV): "But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible."
- Revelation 19:6 (KJV): "And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth."
Omnipresence (All-Present)
- Psalm 139:7-10 (KJV): "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; Even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me."
- Jeremiah 23:24 (KJV): "Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD."
- Proverbs 15:3 (KJV): "The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good."
- Acts 17:27-28 (KJV): "That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring."
Omniscience (All-Knowing)
- Psalm 147:5 (KJV): "Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite."
- Proverbs 15:3 (KJV): "The eyes of the LORD are in every place, beholding the evil and the good."
- Isaiah 46:9-10 (KJV): "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure."
- Jeremiah 23:24 (KJV): "Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD."
- 1 John 3:20 (KJV): "For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things."
- Romans 11:33 (KJV): "O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!"
Eternality (Everlasting)
- Psalms 90:2 (KJV): "Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God."
- Isaiah 40:28 (KJV): "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."
- Revelation 1:8 (KJV): "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."
Holiness (Pure & Sacred)
- Leviticus 11:44 (KJV): "For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."
- Isaiah 6:3 (KJV): "And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory."
- 1 Peter 1:15-16 (KJV): "But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy."
Immutability (Unchanging Nature)
- Malachi 3:6 (KJV): "For I am the LORD, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed."
- Hebrews 13:8 (KJV): "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."
- James 1:17 (KJV): "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
Love
- Romans 5:8: "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
- 1John 4:8: "He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."
- 1John 4:10: "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins."
- Romans 8:28: "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose."
Justice
- Deuteronomy 32:4: "He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he."
- Psalm 89:14: " Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face."
Mercy and Grace
- Ephesians 2:4-5: "But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) "
- Titus 3:5-7: "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life."
Sovereignty
Click here to read more about God's Sovereignty- Isaiah 46:9-10: "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me, Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:"
- Psalm 103:19: "The LORD hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.""
- Daniel 4:35: "And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?"