Who is God?
The Creator of ALL things
"In the beginning...", that was God. He created the beginning. He made all human beings in His image, He created consciousness and freewill. He made all animals and trees, all planets and stars. He constructed the details of every bit of everything, from the role of atoms to Adam and Eve.
All-Knowing
We're talking about the embodiment of wisdom and insight. He knows what you're thinking before you think it. He knows your future and past. He knew you when you were in your mother's womb. He cannot be fooled, He cannot be manipulated, He cannot be coerced, He is the reason intelligence exists.
Omnipresent
We cannot even fathom the breadth of God's existence. Everything Everywhere All At Once? Jobu Tupaki couldn't be that--but God is, all the time. He is not like man, He doesn't need sleep. He is self sufficient, He is this way and uses this to be able to be there for all of His children whilst simultaneously seeing & condemning all the evil corrupting the world.
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God seems like a narcissist.
nar·cis·sist
/ˈnärsÉ™sÉ™st/
noun
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a person who has an excessive interest in or admiration of themselves.
Traits of a narcissist: arrogant, entitled, lack of empathy, reacts negatively to criticism, need for excessive admiration.
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If God is real, why do so many bad things happen?
The reality we live in is a result of choosing in our freewill to live our lives outside of the grace and protection of God. Because He knows best, choosing to disobey and be in sin is to not be in relationship with Him, because He does not tolerate sin. He's holy. This was all a consequence of disobedience. However, although we now have access to relationship with God again, Jesus says "In this world you will have troubles and trials of many kinds, but take heart--I have overcome the world." God's word also says, "He who is in you is greater than He who is in the world". Because Lucifer is the prince of darkness of this world (John 14:30) , he will always wreck havoc, being the first manifestation of sin from his blasphemous behavior towards the Father. With his temptation and the falling of the first humans, sin, pain, disease, and so forth all entered into the life God wanted to be full of peace for us. We even used to live to be around six to seven hundred years old, whereas now we barely reach 80 most of the time. It was never God's intention for life to be like this. Now when we struggle, (if we believe in the sacrifice His son made for us, John 3:16), He uses it to produce endurance within us, and to sharpen us to be wiser. (Romans 5: 3-5)
What kind of God sends His own Son to die?
"Consequently, just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people. For just as through the disobedience of the one man the many were made sinners, so also through the obedience of the one man the many will be made righteous."
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."
Just as through Adam death came to be, through Jesus life came to be, for we will no longer have to worry about living in an eternity void of God's presence when we choose to believe in His sacrifice for us and allow Him to guide and center our lives. God is holy and cannot harbor nor tolerate sin, so it was through innocent blood that we had to be able to be in His presence or be forgiven: animals were the original sacrifice, along with grain (for different offerings). Holiness = innocence. However people were still overly evil, idolatrous, full of divination, carnality, and anything else you can think of. So God through prophets made sure they knew through all their consequences and issues that He was sending a once and for all solution as a sacrifice to provide the cleansing our spirits cannot get from physical burnt offerings. A sacrifice of innocent blood, once and for all, provided the Holy Spirit to guide us and let God abide within us, as His temples. (In the old times He could only abide separate from humanity, in a physical temple made with specific ramifications). Jesus. He, through the instructions of His Father and the love He has for people, with his own freewill, allowed himself to be killed so that He could rise from the dead, fulfilling prophecy and symbolizing life through faith in Christ. Jesus was God coming into the flesh to save us. Any Father that loves His children would die for them. And that's what He did. Except He's still alive to spread the story.
How is God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit all God..... yet separate?
God is the origin and the creator. He is the Godhead of the trinity. Though the Holy Spirit is God and Jesus is God, God.... is God. He is the source. It can't be compared to human genealogy, you're not your father, you just simply share his genes--making you his blood relative. The trinity however, though their own beings, all derive from God, and God fulfills Himself, He doesn't need it from elsewhere like creation does. Jesus always existed, Jesus is the Word and the Word was with God and the Word WAS God. Those words "In the beginning..." in Genesis where the rundown of creation played out--that was Jesus. He was the words, He was the wisdom, He was the medium that birthed everything God said was good! Jesus had so much wisdom pouring out of everything He said and taught because He was and IS the literal personification of God's word. He is wisdom as a man. The Holy Spirit was always with God, the Holy Spirit is God's spirit. In the old testament God would allow His spirit to fall on prophets at certain times for His glory and His will, which after Jesus rose led to all believers receiving His spirit, therefore solidifying their salvation and relationship with Him. The Holy Spirit is not an object, He can talk. He can convict, He can pray (thank God), and He is evidence of your salvation and alignment with God. Jesus said "I and the Father are one." And He also said "Before Abraham was, I Am." (John 10:30, John 8:58) They're all God with their own personalities. They're all alive.