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An Insiteful Look At The Omni’s Of God
Contributed by Dr. Craig Nelson on May 12, 2024 (message contributor)
Summary: It is through the attributes of the Triune God that people can better understand the Triune God. The word 'omni' means all combining forms.
Many words in the English language start with 'omni.' The word means all combining forms, such as omnibus, which means to combine (legislative bills, etc.) into a single package; omnidirectional, which means being involved in all directions, such as the antenna in your cell phone; and omnivore, which refers to an animal that is naturally able to eat both plants and meat.
Applied to the Triune God, ‘omni’ refers to all of His attributes as complete, perfect, and infinite, and it reveals His character. It is through the attributes of God that people can better understand Him. God's love, sovereignty, faithfulness, mercy, holiness, power, knowledge, justice, and goodness are all "omni" and are beyond human comprehension and understanding. There is nothing God cannot do. The greater the comprehension of who He is, the more complete trust in Him will be in Him for what He has done and will ever do. The greatest mystery of Heaven is that God knows everything about us - our words, thoughts, and deeds – and loves us anyway. God is omni Omni.
One Eternal Triune God
The Bible declares there is only one eternal God who always existed in eternity past and into eternity future in three persons in what is known as the Trinity – God, the Father, God, the Son, Jesus Christ, and God, the Holy Spirit, who each have their own spirit-body, mind, and spirit (Deuteronomy 33:27; Isaiah 44:6; 57:15; 1 Kings 8:27; 2 Chronicles 2:6; Psalm 147:5; Jeremiah 23:24; Acts 17:24-28). These are beyond all human comprehension or understanding and can't be explained with any esoteric analogies.
The infinite, majestic God is not some universal mind or consciousness that fills space and matter, nor is He confined to three dimensions of space and one dimension of time. He can be in more than one place at a moment. God has been seen physically by human eyes many times (Genesis 18:1-33; 19:24; 32:24-30; Exodus 24:11; 33:11-33; Joshua 5:13-15; Judges 6:11-23; 13:3-25; 1 Chronicles. 21:16-17; Job 42:5; Isaiah 6; Ezekial 1:26-28; 10:1,20; 40:3; Daniel 7:9-14; 10:5-10; Acts 7:56-59; Revelation 4:2-5; 5:1,5-7,11-14; 6:16; 7:9-17; 19:4; 21:3-5; 22:4).
The Triune God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are unique and separate individuals with their own personalities and are not the essential parts of one Being. They have always existed together with no point of origin. God can be clearly seen as "being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse" (Romans 1:20 KJV).
The Bible says that God has clearly revealed Himself to every human being since time began in the beauty of the heavens, "for since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities, his eternal power, and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse" (Romans 1:18-20 NIV).
God the Son, Jesus Christ
Jesus is God, the Son (John 1:1; Colossians 1:15-19; 1 John 5:7-8; Luke 4:34) and came to Earth as 100% fully human and 100% fully God from a reality eternally separate from Earth (John 8:23-24). He has no beginning and no end. Jesus has been given all authority in Heaven and Earth. He willingly chose to come to Earth as a human in the flesh, which gave Him the essential power to save anyone who receives Him as Lord and Savior from the penalty of sin through His shed blood on the Cross (Matthew 1:18; 4:2; Luke 2:40; John 4:6; 8:40; 11:35; 19:28; Hebrews 2:16-18).
Jesus is not the Father or His offspring. Jesus claimed that He came from and not by God, the Father, and was going back to Him (John 8:42,16:5,10:36,17:8). The Father was in Heaven all the time that Jesus was on Earth (Matthew 5:16,48). Over 80 times, Jesus affirmed that He was not the Father (ex: John 14:1-9). Jesus made it clear that He and not the only person in the Godhead was not the Father. Jesus was the speaker, but not the one spoken of or to (Matthew 7:21; 11:27; 18:10,35; Luke 2:49; John 5:17-43; 8:19-49; 10:17-37; 14:7-28; 15:1-26; Revelation 1:1; etc.).
Jesus had a virgin birth from a surrogate mother. He is not ‘a’ god or the biological offspring of God or humanity (Matthew 1:18; Luke 1:35). As 100% human, He relied on His divinity as well as the Father and the Holy Spirit to perform miracles to prove He was also 100% fully God (Luke 4:18; John 10:33-39; Mark. 4:35-41).
While on Earth, Jesus did not seek His glory, but that of the Father (John 8:50-54,17:4). He received all power in Heaven and in Earth (Matthew 28:18). He was resurrected and exalted by the Father (Ephesians 1:20-23; Philippians 2:9-11; Hebrews 12:2; 1 Peter 3:22).
Jesus always prayed to the Father as a separate Person (Matthew 11:25; John 17). Jesus committed His Spirit to the Father and not to Himself (Luke 23:46). Jesus called God "My Father" 57 times (ex: see John 15:1; Revelation 2:27). Jesus said He did not come to do His own will and that He could not, and did not, do anything of Himself, but that of the Father who had sent Him and worked through Him (John 5:19,30; 6:38; 7:16-18; 8:26-40; 12:49-50).
