If you ask any person from any part of the world about God they will share with you their thinking on Him, their understanding of Him.
Even amongst Christians there are varying descriptions of God and many doctrinal differences resulting in denominations.
'God' is simply a term for deity. All peoples throughout history have had one or more deities that they worshipped.
Even the Jewish people from which our Bible and our Lord Jesus Christ issue are confused about God.
We should reject the notion of God as some nebulous, bipolar manipulator of events and people's lives.
What? Forsake God? How can a minister propose such an action?
If you read what I said above carefully you see that I was describing false gods with adjectives that are no descriptive of the true and living God. And to make it clear, any god that is not Christ Jesus is a false god.
Jesus is the Truth about deity. He is the express image of deity. There is no deity other than Christ Jesus.
Most Christians worship three gods
→ Father (?)
→ Son ( Jesus)
→ Holy Spirit (?)
They call 'it' the Trinity. This is simply polytheism with a nice term stuck on it.
Why was Jesus rejected by the Jews who are the descendants of the men who wrote the Old Testament?
Because He was not like the God they believed in.
The Old Testament does not present the Truth about God. It represents man's experiences and extrapolations from isolated interactions with God, filled with misunderstandings about Him.
This is why God Himself had to come to earth to clarify who He is, what He values, what He expects and what He offers to humanity. Jesus is the incarnation of the deity referred to as God.
Since the term 'God' has so many different meanings to so many different people, it should be abandoned in favor of the name of deity which is Jesus. Furthermore, believers in Christ Jesus aught to focus on the New Testament for doctrine using the Old Testament only as it supports New Testament doctrine. Listen to what Jesus said about the Old Testament scriptures.
There is no intersection between Law and Grace. They are mutually exclusive.
→ The Old Testament is about the Law and performance based relationship with the Lord. It served to incriminate every human being.
→ The New Testament is about Grace and how the Lord reconciled us to Himself unilaterally. It is about the love of Christ Jesus and the infilling of His Holy Spirit to make us New Spirit beings.
So, glorify our deity who is Christ Jesus and worship Him in Spirit (His Holy Spirit) and Truth (His Words).
You will find that your relationship with the Lord is more personal, more intimate, more trusting, more powerful.
If you have any doubts about the deity, the sovereignty or the glory of Christ Jesus listen to these Words:
All power belongs to Christ Jesus and He will judge all men. Who is like Him in the universe? None.
Jesus is Lord. He is God. He is Saviour. He is Healer. He is our very life.