What is your view of God?What is your image of God? How do you 'see' God? How do you view His emotional makeup? How do you see His Character? What will He do? What will He not do? How do you think God acts? Does God intervene in life? Is He distant, merely observing? Does God care? How deeply? The way we see or perceive God is the deepest and most impacting issue in our lives... in our existence... for our Race! Depending on how we see God governs all of our hopes and fears about existence... It is crucial that our picture of God corresponds with Reality... with Who He Really Is ... and not just made up out of our own imagination, bad experiences in life, or other influences. The most clear picture of the invisible God – His heart, His mind, His emotions and His will is found by closely examining the visible life of Jesus. Sound crazy? Read on. Jesus came to earth to do many things. Clearly the destruction of the sin of our Race was a primary objective. However, equally, Jesus came to reveal exactly what the Father was like: “If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father [God]” John 14:9 This verse and others like it state the Grand Eternal purpose of Jesus' earthly ministry to “Reveal the Father.” You may say, “Why was this such a primary objective for the eternal son of God while He existed in a human body?” Simply this... How can you even consider trusting God unless you know what He is like? How could you trust God with your life and it's choices, your family, and ultimately your soul as pass though death unless you absolutely KNOW that God is trustworthy? Jesus makes INVISIBE God VISIBLE! When you study the life of Jesus you find out how He related to the children, how He attacked evil religious leaders, how He related to the women, how He related to the sick.... Studying His actions you begin to get a clear picture of His Character. Knowing Jesus' Character perfectly defines God's Character. There is a one to one correspondence. Therefore this web site is dedicated to exploring the Character and Emotions of Jesus because they will show us clearly what is God's Character and Emotions. Consider these following verses: “When he [anyone] looks at Me, he sees the one who sent Me.” John 12:45 “The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of His being....” Hebrews 13:5 “He [Jesus] is the image of the invisible God....” Colossians 1:15 “For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form....” Colossians 2:9 Jesus revealed all of this because He was more than a human, more than a teacher of moral laws, more than a prophet... Jesus was the Jewish God who created nature, the earth and ultimately the Universe. And this God became a man... the long awaited Messiah that the Jewish people had been looking for during 2,000 years of history has appeared! See our blog at http://TheCharacterOfGod.com Enjoy,
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