Does it matter what we believe about the nature of God? Why or why not? Can someone be saved while believing that God is other than what God is? (ie: not believing that Jesus is God, believing that the Holy Spirit is merely the divine breath of God)
Two strands for evaluation:
What does the Bible say?
What does the material universe indicate or necessitate concerning the nature of the God which created?
God is either:
An abstract force or ‘intelligence’ | A personal quantity or entity |
Non-living or a “concept” | Living |
Pervades the universe (pantheism) | A particular single or multiple entity |
In all things (panentheism) | Independent of all other things |
Everything is “god” | Only one is God |
The Biblical God is either:
One Being presented in different roles (modalism: O... |