How do Christians describe God?

Answer 1

Well, I'd like to start of with descriptive names and from there go on to a more complex, detailed description of him.

Some of the names for him: The Alpha and Omega, Beginning and the End, Lord Almighty, LORD, The King of Kings, and for Jesus the Way, Truth, and Life, and the prince of peace.

Now the below description is intended to show the nature of God.

John 4: 24 - God is a Spirit

Numbers 23:19 - God is not a man

Jeremiah 23:23-24 - Am I only a God nearby," declares the LORD, "and not a God far away?

2 Chronicles 2:6 - "Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?" declares the LORD. "Do not I fill heaven and earth?" declares the LORD.

Acts 17:28 - 'For in him we live and move and have our being.'

Matthew 16:17 - "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not revealed to you by man, but by my Father in heaven."

As you can see, the Bible clearly states that God is:

Spirit

Light

Not man

Not limited by space

Next, I'll show a story from the book "Flatland" (by Edwin Abbott) that makes the nature of God appear very simply:

We, obviously, are three dimensional beings:

We have length, width, and height.

Flatland, though, is a 2 dimensional place with 2 dimensional figures. These people only have length, and height.

The Story of Flatland:

--- One day a man in Flatland is in his living room, and a sphere suddenly appears in front of him. To him, this sphere looks like a dot, as he can only see in an impossibly thin line. As the sphere passes through flatland, the dot grows into a small line, which grows, and eventually shrinks back into a dot and disappears. ---

Now if you think of a tennis ball passing through a piece of paper (in the view of someone that can only see forward in a place with absolutely no width) first there's going to be a dot, then as it slowly gets towards the middle, it'll get bigger, and once it passes the middle get smaller and smaller until it eventually disappears.

We all know two things: Matter cannot be created or destroyed.

This is exactly what happens, though:

This ball, which is matter, appears out of nothing, and disappears after it's passed through Flatland.

--- Now suppose that the man in Flatland begins talking to the sphere, and says "What is it like to be a sphere? The sphere says, "I'll tell you what it's like; draw a circle on your floor." Now this is very difficult for someone in Flatland to do. To him a circle is a constantly curving line that returns to its origin; but he can't see all of the circle at once. He can only see the side of the circle facing him. The only way he could see a whole circle would be to be inside the circle, and if he got inside he could never get out; the circle, for him, is matter, so being inside is like being inside a 2 ft thick steel ball. Because of this it takes along time for him to draw the circle. The sphere is most impatient with all this because he could have done it instantly. Finally the circle is completed and the sphere says, "Now what I want you to do is to rotate the circle." What he has in mind is that the man in Flatland will rotate the circle about its diameter producing a sphere, but what the man in Flatland does is to rotate the circle about its circumference, spinning it like a record on a record player. "No, no--rotate it the other way,' says the sphere. The man begins rotating the sphere in the opposite direction. "No - rotate it the third way!' says the sphere ""There is no third way you fool," cries out the man in Flatland. For the man in flatland, there is no third way, no sideways in a thickness direction, and absolutely no way for him to comprehend what the sphere is talking about or what the sphere is. The only thing that he can understand is the world or dimension in which he lives. ---

Now the reason I've told you this story is that We are this man in flatland, and God is this sphere. When you read, "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis 1:1), you are reading a description analogous to Flatland. The concept is that, a God, who is in a higher dimension than are we, a God who has the same kind of relationship to us which the sphere had to Flatland, that, this kind of being touched our little "Flatland," so to speak, and in violation of all of our laws of science created matter out of nothing. God is so superior to us, he exists in such a higher dimension than do we that what is natural and ordinary to him is miraculous to us. The Bible recognizes this concept and uses it in every single description of God.

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Another good comparison for God is time (A fourth dimension)

We can't see time, we can't feel time, we can't taste it, hear it, smell it, but we know it exists.

If you look at the evidence, though, you can see that it exists. The same thing is true for God and the bible. Now I believe that God created time, and the Bible seems to support this:

Here are some more scriptures to describe God in relation to time.

2 Peter 3:8 - But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

Psalm 90:4 - For a thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.

Psalm 102:27 - But you remain the same, and your years will never end.

Acts 1:7 - He said to them: "It is not for you to know the times or dates the Father has set by his own authority.

Now if you think about what time limits and causes, this is pretty much what you'll come up with

Being in one place

Deterioration

Death

Now if we are in "Flatland" and God is in a higher dimension both us, and time, which we know him to be from the Bible, then none of the above factors can apply to God, meaning he is eternal, never changing, and everywhere.

Conclusion

If God isn't limited by any of the dimensions, then this explains both how he could scientifically create the dimensions and everything in them.

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This description shows very much and in a very good way the description of God, but not necessarily Who he is.

Now in short terms, God is love, truth, our savior, the one true God, merciful, wise (1st John 3:20 "For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.").

There are really no words that can describe the extent of his love, but the Bible would offer a good place to find out for yourself. :)

Answer 2

Christians describe God as Indescribable, Uncontainable, and Almighty. They also describe him as The Creator, King, and well known Lord.

Answer 3

God is a Life-Saver

Answer 4

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