Chapter 4, The Nature of God
The Church says that though God and good are effectively the same thing good is
really a symbol of their personal loving God. God is not a symbol of good.
Some atheists and liberal Christians say that God is real as in myth and image
but that there is no personal God. I consider that a terrible piece of
exploitive obfuscation and mystery mongering.
Handbook of Christian Apologetics Says
God is unlimited if there were another God the two Gods would need to be
different to be separate but this would mean there was something one God was
that the other was not. This would be a limitation.
Reason says,
This is correct reasoning. It says that there can be nothing outside God. But
traditional religion claims that God created all things out of nothing and that
he is not the creation. So God created energy and things that he isn’t. The
creation then is what God is not. The creation implies a limitation to God so
God is not unlimited. The alternative is to hold that God turned himself into
the creation.
Handbook of Christian Apologetics Says
God is spiritual (a non-material being) for he is infinite and the limitless
fullness of being. This means he is the one being that depends on nothing to
exist. His existence cannot end while that of anything else can for it depends
on him.
Reason replies:
Correct. But we are still left wondering does God exist?
Handbook of Christian Apologetics Says
God is the source of all being therefore God is good
Reason replies:
This is very unclear. Some kind of knavery is going on
here.
Handbook of Christian Apologetics Says
God is not male but we should call him, him and he and
male because the idea of God as mother gives the following idea. Mothers make
babies from their own bodies. A mother God would be like a God who turns herself
not the universe. The father is separate from his creation and does not make the
baby in the way his woman does. Even though the Bible sometimes uses feminine
symbolism about God it refers to him as if he were male and so should we
Reason replies:
Mothers do not make babies from their own bodies
differently from men. Both provide a seed. The baby makes itself from the
nutrients provided by the mother not from the mother’s body.
What he really means is that though the Bible sometimes indicates that God is
mother we should ignore it in favour of the more numerous statements in the
Bible that he is father.
Calling God male is an insult to women and even more so when God is sexless.
If God became man in Christ then God experienced life as a man. God valued life
as a man but not as a woman. The concept is certainly anti-women.