A FEW LINES ABOUT GOD
A Scottish book-seller and maker of
Bible concordance Cruden Alexander (1701-1770) said: This is one of the names
which we give to that eternal, infinite, and incomprehensible being, the creator
of all things, who preserves and governs
every thing by his almighty power and wisdom, and who is the only object of our
worship.
A German philosopher Empedocles (490-430 B.C.) said: God is a circle whose
centre is everywhere, and its circumference nowhere.
The French writer and philosopher Francois-Marie
Arouet, populary known as Voltaire (1694-1778) suggested that if God did not
exist it would be necessary to invent him.
The English poet and playwright Robert Browning (1812-1889) wrote in his
dramatic poem “Pippa Passes” : “God’s in
His heaven ---All’s right with the world.”
Somewhere I found the following
words: He is the God of predestination; the God upon whose absolute will, the
hinge of fate doth turn.
Look at the following poetic lines
“Chain’d
to his throne, a volume lies,
With
all the fates of men,
With
every angel’s form and size,
Drawn
by th’ eternal pen.
His
providence unfolds the book,
And
makes his councils shine,
Each
opening leaf, and every stroke,
Fulfils
some deep design.
According
to an interpreter : This is the God of the Bible, this is the God whom the
Christians adore; no weak, no pusillanimous God, who is controlled by the will
of men, who cannot steer the bark of providence; but a God unalterable,
infinite, unerring. This is the God we (the Christians) worship; and a God as
infinitely above his creatures, as the highest thought can fly: and higher
still than that.
To conclude, most of the religions
regard God as: sovereign, holy, immutable, love, truth, omniscient, omnipotent
and omnipresent.
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G.R.Kanwal
27 July 2025
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