The excerpt below was taken courtesy of John Piper’s Book Surprised by God, Faithful Editor.
What does it mean that God is what He is? Here are ten points:
- 1.
- God’s absolute being means he never had a beginning.
- Shake your mind.
- Each child asks.
- “Who created God?”And every wise father says.
- “No one has made God.
- God is simply.
- That’s always been the case.
- Without beginning?”.
2. God’s absolute being means that God will never end, if he does not rise he cannot help but be, because he is, it is what He is. There’s nowhere to go but to be. It’s just him. Before creating, that’s all: God.
3. God’s absolute being means that God is an absolute reality, there is no reality in front of him. There is no reality outside of it, unless he wants and does, this is not one of the many realities before creating, it is simply an absolute reality. That’s all there was forever. No space, no universe, no emptiness. Only God, absolutely there, absolutely everything.
4. Does God’s absolute being mean that God is totally independent, does not depend on anything for him to exist, support him, counsel him, or do what he is, is that what words mean?
5. God’s absolute being means that all that is not God depends entirely on God. Everything that is not God is secondary and dependent. The whole universe is completely secondary, not primary. He was born to God and depends at all times on God’s decision to keep him alive.
6. God’s absolute being means that the whole universe in relation to God is like nothing; contingent and dependent reality is for absolute and independent reality as a shadow for substance; like an echo of thunder, like a bubble in the ocean. Everything we see, everything that amazes us in the world and in galaxies, looks nothing like God. “All nations stand before him as something that is nothing; Do you see them less than anything like a void?(Isaiah 40,17).
7. God’s absolute being means that God is constant, he is the same yesterday, today, and always. This can’t be improved, it doesn’t become anything. He’s who he is. There is no development in God, there is no progress. Absolute perfection cannot be improved.
8. God’s absolute being means that he is the absolute standard of truth, goodness, and beauty. There is no law book to turn to to know what is right. No almanaque to establish the facts. There is no guild to determine what is excellent or beautiful. He himself is the standard of what is right, of the true, of the beautiful.
9. God’s absolute being means that God does what He wants, is always right and always beautiful and always according to the truth, there are no restrictions that come from outside him that prevent him from doing as he pleases. is out of it, has created, projected and governed as absolute reality; therefore, it is completely free of any restriction that does not result from the advice of its own free will.
10. God’s absolute being means that he is the most important and precious reality and the most important and precious person in the universe. It is more worthy of interest, attention, admiration and pleasure than all other realities, including the entire universe.
Christ’s teaching has shaken the world since the beginning of Christianity and continues to renew millions of lives today. Impacted by the doctrine of Jesus, Pastor John Piper devoted 33 years of his life to transmitting this message to the Baptist Church of Bethlehem. the main theological approaches of his ministry. These truths teach the glory of the sovereign God and our full joy in him and in his will. These truths have marked the lives of this veteran pastor, his church, and his listeners around the world.
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By: John Piper. © Desire of God and Editora Fiel. Website: desiringGod. org and editorafiel. com. br. Excerpt taken courtesy of the book: Surprised by God.
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