Who Is God? Part 2

Last time, I used an analogy of a 2-D stick figure being visited by a 3-D human finger to describe how much more infinitely glorious God is compared to us. We are the stick figures who are incapable of comprehending fully who God is because He is infinitely more... everything: glorious, complex, good, creative, powerful, wise, etc.

I want to continue the analogy only briefly to describe another aspect of God. I'm sure you have heard mention of the Trinity when discussing the nature of God. To use the stick figure analogy, imagine God was compassionate enough to want us to know Him fully. The thing is, if God were only as capable of doing things as much or as well as we humans are capable, God would not be able to reveal Himself fully to us. It would be just like the human sticking its finger through the paper; it would not be a sufficient means to have the stick figures comprehend the human's full nature. Fortunately, God is more capable of doing things than humans are.

Hence, we have God himself becoming a man to reveal Himself to mankind through Jesus. How could God jam all of his essence into a human being and still be God? That I cannot comprehend. But we know He is fully God and fully human because we have Scripture like "For it was the Father's good pleasure for all the fullness to dwell in Him" (Colossians 1:19). If it were not the case, Jesus would not be an adequate mediator and sacrifice for our sin. But now I'm getting ahead of myself. What is important is that Jesus made it possible for us to know God fully when we look upon Him, for Jesus does (and did while on earth) only what He knows the Father to be doing. Jesus did not stray away from participating only in what the Father was doing, thus representing the Father perfectly.

The full revealing and display of God occurred when Jesus died on the cross. This is one of the most missed truths in Christianity. I discussed earlier that God was obsessed with His glory being known and proclaimed to all of creation, and that ultimately all creatures will bow in subjection to Him because there is no other possible response, He is that significant. The cross was the moment where God legitimized His authority and revealed His exact nature, in that He is that humble to die an excruciating and horrible death, bearing all the weight of sin on one who knew not sin until that moment, that He may pay the price and penalty of death when it was not deserved of Him. It was the biggest atrocity of all of time. And everyone will one day understand how appalling an injustice it was one day (hopefully many will understand sooner than later, so that they may be saved). But again, I'm getting ahead of myself, talking about sin. In my original post, before it was unfortunately deleted, I discussed how the ministry of Jesus on earth was proof of God's goodness, creativity, worthiness, etc. I hope by now you can understand why. God did a lot by coming down to our level to make connection possible for us. Our connectedness to Him will be essential in our ultimate fate, which will be explored more in the posts to come.

I think I will skip explaining the third part of the Trinity, the Holy Spirit, until explaining the issue of our response. So next, you can expect to learn more about who we are in all of this.

Until then, feel free to ask questions, share comments or rebuttals. All discussion is welcome.