What is God like?

All men are conscious of an objective moral law. Everyone holds that some things are wrong – like murder, rape, theft, and lying. We may tolerate it in others and even argue that it is okay sometimes but not against us. Muslim suicide bombers don’t mind killing you but they don’t want the American government to kill them. Their moral law is skewed but they still recognize there is a moral standard beyond themselves.

Moral laws imply a moral lawgiver. This is based on the principle of causality. Morality could not have come from a “force” as in Star Wars. Morality could not have come from a rock. You do not get morality from an amoral object. What is morally “right” then has to come from outside our universe.

In a “Star Wars” universe, then can be no “good” side and “bad” side. Good side of what? Bad side of what? Who defines the good and the bad?

Therefore, there must be a supreme moral Lawgiver. Because, law must come from a mind. There can be no morality without God.

The God of the universe, who created the universe, is a moral being. He is neither beyond morality nor answerable to a morality over Him. He is by nature moral. Only God ultimately knows the difference between right and wrong because wrong is anything that goes against God’s holy nature. That is what is wrong. Anything right is what is consistent with His moral nature. That is what is right. The only way we can know what is right and wrong is to listen to Him.

You and I can define easily what is moral. It is what is good. Whoever creates something good has to be good Himself. How can He not share, at least part, of His nature with His creation? How can His creation not but reflect at least part of His nature?

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The moral Being/Creator would be Lovingly-kind – infinitely so; True – no falsehood could be in Him at all.  We could go on – just looking at ourselves as human beings, we can see what ought to be. How can we describe the “good” Being? With these words: Loving, joyful, peaceful, patient, kind, trustworthy, gentle, totally in control of self.

What we have here is the perfect, moral Being. The Being from which our own morality originates and flows. Just as surely as we recognize that a powerful force exists because the world exists, so we also recognize that a loving force exists because love exists. The same thing can be said about grace, patience, truth, and so forth.

That brings me to one final point. If it is true that hell exists for those who violate His holy nature, then the perfectly moral Being who is infinite in His love, would not only tell (communicate to) us that hell exists but also tell us (communicate to us) how to avoid hell. In other words, the perfectly “Good” Being would be a Being who communicates to us and it would be a Being who would communicate to us accurately, truthfully, and He would have the power to see that His communication was exactly the way it needed to be.

If we are on the same page up to this point, do you know what we have done? We have described neither a god of Hinduism or Buddhism, nor the “Allah” of Islam but the God of the Bible. Now, to prove the Bible is God’s communication to man is a discussion for another time.

–Paul Holland