Prime Reality Research Paper
Question one: What is really real?
Various worldviews would answer this fundamental question differently. Naturalist say matter is prime reality, while those of New Age spirituality would argue that self is the prime reality. Christians, however, believe that a higher power is the really real.
What is this God like?
He is infinite. "'I am the Alpha and the Omega – the beginning and the end,' says the Lord God. 'I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come – the Almighty One'" (Revelation 1:8, NLT). He is the source of everything, the creator. Nothing and no one rival him in nature. "He is the only self-existing being"(Universe next door, p.28). He is the prime reality. Moses tells the Israelites that their "God is one Lord" (Deuteronomy 6:4, KJV). …show more content…
He can think and act, and designed his creation to have those same capabilities. The Lord has his own characteristics. As well as being personal, God is also triune. The Father, God, the Son, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are separate and joined at the same time. They are "coequally and coeternally God" (Universe Next Door p.29). C.S. Lewis compares the Trinity to a cube, an object that "is six squares while remaining one cube"(Mere Christianity, p.162).
The Lord is transcendent, or otherworldly, and immanent all at once. He is beyond our universe and yet is always in it. God is always present, everywhere. "[He] is beyond all, yet in all and sustaining all" (Universe Next Door, p.30)
The Lord is omniscient, or all-knowing. He is the origin of all understanding. In Psalm 139, David marvels several times over the fact that God knows everything. "You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord" (Psalm 139:4, NLT) "He counts the stars and calls them all by name. How great is our Lord! His power is absolute! His understanding is beyond comprehension!" (Psalm 147:4-5,
Various worldviews would answer this fundamental question differently. Naturalist say matter is prime reality, while those of New Age spirituality would argue that self is the prime reality. Christians, however, believe that a higher power is the really real.
What is this God like?
He is infinite. "'I am the Alpha and the Omega – the beginning and the end,' says the Lord God. 'I am the one who is, who always was, and who is still to come – the Almighty One'" (Revelation 1:8, NLT). He is the source of everything, the creator. Nothing and no one rival him in nature. "He is the only self-existing being"(Universe next door, p.28). He is the prime reality. Moses tells the Israelites that their "God is one Lord" (Deuteronomy 6:4, KJV). …show more content…
He can think and act, and designed his creation to have those same capabilities. The Lord has his own characteristics. As well as being personal, God is also triune. The Father, God, the Son, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit are separate and joined at the same time. They are "coequally and coeternally God" (Universe Next Door p.29). C.S. Lewis compares the Trinity to a cube, an object that "is six squares while remaining one cube"(Mere Christianity, p.162).
The Lord is transcendent, or otherworldly, and immanent all at once. He is beyond our universe and yet is always in it. God is always present, everywhere. "[He] is beyond all, yet in all and sustaining all" (Universe Next Door, p.30)
The Lord is omniscient, or all-knowing. He is the origin of all understanding. In Psalm 139, David marvels several times over the fact that God knows everything. "You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord" (Psalm 139:4, NLT) "He counts the stars and calls them all by name. How great is our Lord! His power is absolute! His understanding is beyond comprehension!" (Psalm 147:4-5,