Who is the real God?

I. GOD

Who is God?

 What is He like?

 Thinking about these questions has driven the greatest thinkers and philosophers of the ages. In today’s world, the issue—on the popular level at least—seems to be propelled by two notions.
On one side is the idea that God is whatever or whoever the individual makes Him (or It or Her) out to be. Everybody’s idea is equally valid. Do you want God to be like “the Force” (some benevolent entity) like in Star Wars?

Fine, even though there’s a dark side. Do you want God to be like a genie dispensing health and wealth just for the asking?

 If this works for you, go for it.

 The other notion is driven by a growing awareness of the religion of Islam, which worships only one God?

Many people have assumed that the God of Islam (Allah?) and the God of Christianity are identical. Thus the question arises, Is the God of Islam the Father of Jesus Christ?

 Are Muslims and Christians—both claiming to worship the only deity there is?
Are both serving the same God?
Christians begin with the Scriptures, not with popular culture or with someone’s experiences of “God.”

Follow the study of these seven (elements) terms that point to the true identity of the God of the Bible.
 In particular, note the last study, on the Trinity.
 If, as orthodox Christians have always affirmed, God eternally exists in three Persons—Father, Son, and Spirit—then the answer to the two questions at the end of the previous paragraph must be a resounding NO.