Thinking Theologically
About Knowing God
Life with the Triune God
the Bible gives us confidence that God reveals himself to us
For this reason, based on the authority of the Bible we can actually make statements about God that are:
- True
- Accurate and coherent
- Have amazing implications for our lives
Watch the following video as Nikolas explains how trusting what God says about himself leads to a vision for life that is profound and meaningful.
The Christian gospel reveals that God initiates and humanity responds to this revelation
The good news is that God shows himself to be a personal God who wants a relationship with people. This means that learning more about God leads to a deeper love of God. As Nikolas says in the video, “Good lovers are students of the things or people that they love.”
ACOP Core Belief
"We believe in One True Living God, revealed in the Bible as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. God is the source of life and being. He reveals himself relationally to be holy, good, loving and faithful. He is transcendent—above and other than creation--yet also immanent—active and present to his creation. God lacks nothing and is, in himself, a perfect community of self-giving love. ACOP denies both tritheism, “a distorted belief in three different Gods” and modalism, a trinitarian heresy that does not view the Father, Son and Spirit as ‘persons in relation’ but merely as three modes of the one divine person of God. We affirm the historic Christian confession of the Trinity."
Test Yourself
Answer
Think about it and Respond:
- How does the doctrine of the trinity reveal God’s love to us?
- If God has relationship and community within himself, how important is it that we as his followers engage in loving relationship with the people around us?