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An Insightful Look At The Omni’s Of God
Contributed by Dr. Craig Nelson on Oct 25, 2024 (message contributor)
Summary: It is through the attributes of the Triune God that people can better understand the Triune God. The word 'omni' means all combining forms.
OMNIBENEVOLENCE
"The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness" (Exodus 34:6 ESV)
"For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations." (Psalm 100:5 ESV)
The Triune God is omnibenevolent, which means He is perfectly generous, kind, helpful, purely and absolutely all good, charitable, loving and pure in every thought, feeling, action, motive, thought or anything else about Him all the time and cannot create evil (Mark 10:18). For God to be God He must also be omnificent, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent (Genesis 1:31; Psalm 31:19,34:8,105:5,106:1,119:68, 135:3,145:9; Nahum 1:7; Mark 10:18; Luke 2:10; Romans 2:4, 8:28; Titus 3:4; Galatians 5:22; 1 Timothy 4:4; James 1:17; 2 Thessalonians 1:11). God proved His goodness by sending Jesus to die for us as the final sacrifice for the forgiveness of all our sins.
"…but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." (Romans 5:8 ESV)
OMNIFICENCE
The glory of God is best described as His beauty. He is omnificent and the magnificent, all-beautiful, creative God of everything. Every human being will see the beauty of something different than another. There is no established precedent or pattern of beauty that one can say God is like - and if there were - it would be God Himself.
Beauty is the possession and characteristic of God and is one of His distinctive qualities. It is what emphasizes the form in which He reveals Himself in the external manifestation of His presence and the quality of His greatness, authority, dignity, preeminence, power, perfection, and majesty.
"Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in Heaven and Earth is yours. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all. Now, our God, we give you thanks and praise your glorious name." (1 Chronicles 29:11-13 NIV)
The Hebrew word "glory" used is 'tip'eret/tip'arah' and is a noun that means 'glory; beauty; ornament; distinction; pride.' It appears about 51 times in the Bible. The word represents 'beauty' in the sense of the characteristic enhancing a person's appearance as well as their rank as used about God to emphasize His renown and inherent "beauty" (Exodus 28:2; Isaiah 4:2, 62:3; Proverbs 4:9,16:31; Deuteronomy 26:19). The word glory also comes from the Hebrew word 'kabod' and the Greek word 'doxa,' which are most often translated throughout the Bible to convey God's wealth, the perfection of character, splendor, majesty, abundance, and honor, as well as to convey the ecstasy found in Heaven.
The word's root meaning denotes weight, heaviness, size, rarity, beauty, brilliance, brightness, desire, and adornment. This divine quality is beyond human understanding because:
