Who and what does the Bible say God is ! Home Links     God is A Spirit and there is only one God. John 4: 21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. ver. 21 worship the Farther, ver. worship the Father, ver. 24 God that one omnipresent Spirit. We just covered that Jesus was conceived of the Holy Spirit, which makes the Holy Ghost the Father of the Son of God and Ephesians say that there is one Spirit, Ephesians 4:4 There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; He is an omnipresent Spirit, everywhere there can only be one omnipresent Spirit, how can there be more than one omnipresent Spirits Psalms 139: 7 ¶ Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? 8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. 2 Chronicles 6:18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built! He is invisible, which means he cannot be seen. Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature: The word translated God in the Old Testament is Elohim Genesis 1:1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 0430 Myhla 'elohiym el-o-heem' plural of 0433; TWOT-93c; n m p AV-God 2346, god 244, judge 5, GOD 1, goddess 2, great 2, mighty 2, angels 1, exceeding 1, God-ward + 04136 1, godly 1; 2606 1) (plural) 1a) rulers, judges 1b) divine ones 1c) angels 1d) gods 2) (plural intensive-singular meaning) 2a) god, goddess 2b) godlike one 2c) works or special possessions of God 2d) the (true) God 2e) God Elohim is a plural noun but even when it is used for Pagan gods, these gods are many but each one is singular, for they each had an individual name. Each kingdom had its own god. What separated the God of Israel from was His name. If you have a computer with a Bible program, search " my name, His name, Name of the Lord". Even today God can be a generic name like car or man, what separates one from another is the name that it is called. Molech, or Moloch, which signifies "king, "was the idol of the Ammonites. His statue was of brass, and rested on a pedestal or throne of the same metal. His head, resembling that of a calf, was adorned with a crow, and his arms were extended in the attitude of embracing those who approached him. His devotees dedicated their children to him; and when this was to be done, they heated the statue to a high pitch of intensity by a fire within, and then the infants were either shaken over the flames, or passed through the ignited arms, by way of lustration (to lust after) to find the favor of the pretended deity. The fire-worshippers asserted that all children who did not undergo this purifying process would die in infancy; and the influence of this Zabian superstition was still so extensively prevalent in the days of Moses, that the divine lawgiver judged it necessary to prohibit it by an express statute. Milcom="great king" 1) the god of the Ammonites and Phoenicians to whom some Israelites sacrificed their infants in the valley of Hinnom Baal="lord" 1) supreme male divinity of the Phoenicians or Canaanites   Nergal nare-gal' of foreign origin; ;n pr m AV-Nergal 1; 1 Nergal="hero" 1) one of the chief deities of Assyria and Babylon and worshipped by the men of Cuth   Ashima="guiltiness: I will make desolate" 1) a god of Hamath   Succoth-benoth="the daughter's booth" 1) Assyrian or Babylonian deity worshipped by the Babylonians in Samaria   Dagon Little fish; diminutive from dag a fish, the fish-god; the national god of the Philistines #Jud 16:23 This idol had the body of a fish with the head and hands of a man. It was an Assyrio-Babylonian deity, the worship of which was introduced among the Philistines through Chaldea. The most famous of the temples of Dagon were at Gaza #Jud 16:23-30 and Ashdod #1Sa 5:1-7   Ashtoreth as the "queen of heaven." 1) the principal female deity of the Phoenicians worshipped in war and fertility 1a) also'Ishtar' of Assyria and'Astarte' by the Greeks and Romans   Chemosh The destroyer, subduer, or fish-god, the god of the Moabites #1) the national deity of the Moabites and a god of the Ammonites 1a) also identified with'Baal-peor', 'Baal-zebub', 'Mars' and 'Saturn' 1b) worship of this god was introduced into Jerusalem by Solomon and abolished by king Josiah of Judah Beelzebub (Gr. form Beel'zebul), the name given to Satan, and found only in the New Testament #Mt 10:25 12:24,27 Mr 3:22 It is probably the same as Baalzebub (q.v.), the god of Ekron, meaning "the lord of flies, "or, as others think, "the lord of dung, "or "the dung-god." Baalim--The plural is used to include all the gods of the country.   Diana So called by the Romans; called Artemis by the Greeks, the "great" goddess worshipped among heathen nations under various modifications. Her most noted temple was that at Ephesus. It was built outside the city walls, and was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. "First and last it was the work of 220 years; built of shining marble; 342 feet long by 164 feet broad; supported by a forest of columns, each 56 feet high; a sacred museum of masterpieces of sculpture and painting. At the centre, hidden by curtains, within a gorgeous shrine, stood the very ancient image of the goddess, on wood or ebony reputed to have fallen from the sky. Behind the shrine was a treasury, where, as in the safest bank in Asia, 'nations and kings stored their most precious things. The temple as St. Paul saw it subsisted till A.D. 262 when it was ruined by the Goths   Teraphim Givers of prosperity, idols in human shape, large or small, analogous to the images of ancestors which were revered by the Romans. AV-image 7, teraphim 6, idol 1, idolatry 1; 15 1) idolatry, idols, image(s), teraphim, family idol 1a) a kind of idol used in household shrine or worship    Rimmon rim-mone'or wnwmr Rimmownow (#1Ch 6:77) rim-mo-no' the same as 07416; TWOT-2171 AV-Rimmon 14, Remmon 1, Remmonmethoar 1; 16 Rimmon="pomegranate" n pr dei 1) the deity of wind, rain, and storm, worshipped by the Syrians of Damascus   Mercurius or Hermes="herald of the gods" 1) a Greek deity called by the Romans Mercurius (Mercury)   Jupiter or Zeus="a father of helps" 1) the national god of the Greeks and corresponds to the Roman Jupiter   Nisroch="the great eagle" 1) an idol of Nineveh worshipped by Sennacherib; symbolised by the eagle-headed human figure Ashera(h) ="groves (for idol worship)" 1) a Babylonian (Astarte)-Canaanite goddess (of fortune and happiness), the supposed consort of Baal, her images 1a) the goddess, goddesses 1b) her images 1c) sacred trees or poles set up near an altar  Befor Exodus He was only known as God, which is a title like Father says what He is not who He is, Abraham knew him as the Almighty God; Genesis 17:1 ¶ And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram, and said unto him, I am the Almighty God; walk before me, and be thou perfect. They did not know him as YHWH till He told Moses in Exodus Exodus 6:3 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them. His name is in the Hebrew the existing one. 03068 hwhy Y@hovah yeh-ho-vaw' from 01961; TWOT-484a; n pr dei AV-LORD 6510, GOD 4, JEHOVAH 4, variant 1; 6519 Jehovah =" the existing One" 1) the proper name of the one true God 1a) unpronounced except with the vowel pointings of 0136 They only have the consonants and not the Vowels JEHOVAH is used but the Israelites today do not know Jeremiah 23:27 Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal. Easton Dictionary Jehovah The special and significant name (not merely an appellative title such as Lord [adonai]) by which God revealed himself to the ancient Hebrews #Ex 6:2,3 This name, the Tetragrammaton of the Greeks, was held by the later Jews to be so sacred that it was never pronounced except by the high priest on the great Day of Atonement, when he entered into the most holy place. Whenever this name occurred in the sacred books they pronounced it, as they still do, "Adonai" (i.e., Lord), thus using another word in its stead. The Massorets gave to it the vowel-points appropriate to this word. This Jewish practice was founded on a false interpretation of #Le 24:16 The meaning of the word appears from #Ex 3:14 to be "the unchanging, eternal, self-existent God, " the "I am that I am, " a convenant-keeping God. (Comp.) #Mal 3:6 Ho 12:5 Re 1:4,8 The Hebrew name "Jehovah" is generally translated in the Authorized Version (and the Revised Version has not departed from this rule) by the word LORD printed in small capitals, to distinguish it from the rendering of the Hebrew _Adonai_ and the Greek _Kurios_, which are also rendered Lord, but printed in the usual type. The Hebrew word is translated "Jehovah" only in #Ex 6:3 Ps 83:18 Isa 12:2 26:4 and in the compound names mentioned below. It is worthy of notice that this name is never used in the LXX., the Samaritan Pentateuch, the Apocrypha, or in the New Testament. It is found, however, on the "Moabite stone" (q.v.), and consequently it must have been in the days of Mesba so commonly pronounced by the Hebrews as to be familiar to their heathen neighbours. What separates the God of Israel from pagan gods was His name. That is why it is important to know the name of your God. Who is the Lord Jesus Christ?