What are some of the most important aspects of Biblical theology?
What is God Like?
God is a Creating God.
- One of the very first things the Bible tells us about God is that
He is a creating God.
- God creates the universe and all the creatures in it (Gen 1).
- God creates man in His own image as the pinnacle of His creation (Gen 2).
- God creates a special people for Himself, starting with Abraham's election (Gen 3).
- This creative activity of God gives Him a Creator's authority over His handiwork, meaning that He has the right to do whatever He wishes with whatever He has created.
- This is in large part why His election of Abraham and Israel as a special people is completely fair and legitimate: He has a right to treat them specially because He owns everything that exists by virtue of creating it all.
