ATTRIBUTES OF GOD
It is easier to tell some attributes of God than write His
biography. A simple definition about Him is that He is the being or spirit that
is worshipped and is believed to have created the universe.
Attributes of God are communicable qualities like : supreme,
holy, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, just, fair, good, loving, affectionate, kind, gracious, merciful,
patient, truthful, wise, eternal, helpful, etc.
The American clergyman H. W. Beecher (1813-1887) says : “The very word “God” suggests care,
kindness, goodness; and the idea of God in his infinity, is infinite care,
infinite kindness. We give God the name of good: it is only by shortening it
that it becomes God.”
The French writer Voltaire (1694-1778) rightly said : “If God did not exist it would be
necessary to invent him. “
According to the Greek philosopher Plato , student of
Socrates , “Escape from evil we must be made, as far as possible, like God; and
this resemblance consists in becoming just, and holy, and wise.”
Russian thinker Panin Nikita Ivanovitch (1718-1883) says:”
Two men please God --- who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him;
who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.”
Finally, this anonymous quotation: The world we inhabit must
have had an origin; that origin must have consisted in a cause; that cause must
have been intelligent ; that intelligence must have been supreme; and that
supreme, which always was and is supreme, we know by the name of God.
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G. R. Kanwal
18 October 2024
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