2nd session - who is god 2011
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Presented by Rev Fr Michael ChuaTRANSCRIPT
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Who is God?
Rite of Christian Initiation
Church of St Francis Xavier, PJ
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If you could picture God, how would you imagine
him to look like?
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Some Images of God
• Fearsome God
• Kill-Joy God
• Policeman God
• Feel Good God
• Santa Claus God
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How do we come to know about God?
General Revelation
Specific Revelation
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History of Religion Primitive Experience
Mythical religions
3 ways of moving beyond the myth
Mysticism Monotheistic Revolution
Enlightenment
(Spiritual Experience)
(The Divine Call) (Rational Knowledge)
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Christian Notion of God
• Characteristics of God
1. Spirit
2. Personal Being – not impersonal force
3. Omnipotent, Omnipresence, Omnisience, Omnibenevolent, Immutable
4. God is free, perfect and eternal
5. God is Truth
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A Relational God
• God is LOVE
• God is Creator
• God who reveals himself
• God is Forgiving
• God is Faithful
• God is our Father
• Transcendent & Immanent
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Goal of Human Life
• Why did God make you?
• “To know Him, to love Him, to serve Him and be with Him in paradise forever.
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God and Suffering
• Syllogism
1. God is Good
2. There is Suffering
3. God is not good OR God does not exist
• God is not the cause of evil & suffering
• Christian answer to suffering: God embraces our suffering to free us from it
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How do we speak of God?
VIA POSITIVA• God is truth
• God is just
• God is Love
VIA NEGATIVA• God’s truth is beyond
any human truth• God’s justice is
beyond human justice• God’s love is greater
than any human love
GOD IS MYSTERY
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In times past, God spoke in partial and various ways to our ancestors through the prophets; in these last days, he spoke to us through a son … Heb 1:1ff
JESUS CHRIST