The Lord is awe-inspiring, fearsome, fascinating, intriguing, and majestic in his radiant splendor: breathtaking! Here is what I saw of him today and what came to my heart and mind in 1 John 1:5,
“This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.”
What if God had a shadowy side? What if God had faults, inconsistencies, imperfections in his nature? What if God were moody or gloomy?
What would the quality of eternal life be to serve a god like that?
The “antichrists”, the false teachers that John wrote against in this letter we call 1 John, brought their false Gnostic teachings from the dualism prevalent in Greek religion. This Greek religion promoted gods who were anything but morally upright or transcendent in character.
Xenophanes (c. 570-488 B.C.) commented, “Both Homer and Hesiod have attributed to the gods all things that are shameful and a reproach among mankind: theft, adultery, and mutual deception.”
When John proclaims God is light – no darkness whatsoever, it reverberates within me a penetrating excitement to know that our God, the only God, is perfect and perfectly consistent in all of his character and nature!
As Paul wrote Timothy, “… God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever, Amen.” 1 Timothy 6:15-16.
What if God had a shadowy side? What if God had faults, inconsistencies, imperfections in his nature? What if God were moody or gloomy?
What would the quality of eternal life be to serve a god like that?
The “antichrists”, the false teachers that John wrote against in this letter we call 1 John, brought their false Gnostic teachings from the dualism prevalent in Greek religion. This Greek religion promoted gods who were anything but morally upright or transcendent in character.
Xenophanes (c. 570-488 B.C.) commented, “Both Homer and Hesiod have attributed to the gods all things that are shameful and a reproach among mankind: theft, adultery, and mutual deception.”
When John proclaims God is light – no darkness whatsoever, it reverberates within me a penetrating excitement to know that our God, the only God, is perfect and perfectly consistent in all of his character and nature!
As Paul wrote Timothy, “… God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To him be honor and might forever, Amen.” 1 Timothy 6:15-16.
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