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The one true Triune God of Christianity and Judaism is distinguishable from all the false gods and their elaborate rituals, rites and doctrines that have been foisted upon mankind by evil [fallen] spirits, contributing to and advising the imaginations of deluded, power hungry men.

Because we live on this one planet, Earth, in a man made world system, of which Jesus identified Satan as its "god," with the existence of many little "g" idols/gods with many competing truth claims; the ability to correctly identity the one true God is of vital importance.

Satan, the great master deceiver of men loves religion. By appearing as an angel of light, he has turned himself inside-out in his attempt to emulate a spiritual counterfeit for all of God's authentic works. One of Satan's most effective frauds is to devise a false religion "preaching a counterfeit gospel." If he can fool you into thinking that all is right between you and God, when it is not, the consequences are eternal.

"Gods that are fashioned by the imaginations and hands of men are absolutely worthless (Isaiah 44:9–10), but the one true God of glory is full of grace, mercy, liberating truth and justice" (John 1:14). The Bible speaks of three divine Persons who share the same nature and essence within one Godhead. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three in one (Matthew 3:16–17; 28:19).

The characteristic of the one true God that separates Him from all other gods of monotheistic religions: God is love.

This characteristic of the one true God separates Him from all other gods of monotheistic religions: Islam teaches one singular god (Allah), who is a false god, because Allah is not love, but only self love, since Allah is not triune.

Any concept of God that excludes Jesus Christ is insufficient and has no salvation. As Scripture says, “No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also” (1 John 2:23).

"Surely His salvation is near to those who [reverently] fear Him [and obey Him with submissive wonder], that glory [the manifest presence of God] may dwell in our land" (Psalm 85:9).

What Are the Attributes of God?


1. SELF-EXISTENT: God has no cause; He does not depend on anything for his continued existence.

I AM WHO I AM (Ex. 3:14; see John 8:58)
Life in Himself (John 5:26)
First and Last, Alpha and Omega, Beginning and End; as the Beginning, God has no cause (Isa. 41:4; 44:6; 48:12; Rev. 1:8, 17; 2:8; 3:14; 21:6; 22:13)
There is No God before or after Yahweh (Isa. 43:10)

2. TRANSCENDENT: God is entirely distinct from the universe, as separate and apart as the carpenter is distinct from the bench; this excludes pantheism (God in all - All in God) and animism (everything is a god).

Separate from the world (Isa. 66:1-2; Acts 17:24)
Contrasted with the world (Psa. 102:25-27; I John 2:15-17)
Implied by doctrine of creation (Gen. 1:1; Isa. 42:5)

3. IMMANENT: Though transcendent, God is present with and in the world; excluding deism (God is out there but not here).

God is near, so He can be known (Deut. 4:7; Jer. 23:23; Acts 17:27)
Bound up with God’s omnipresence (Psa. 139:7-10; Jer. 23:24; Acts 17:28)

4. IMMUTABLE: God is perfect in that He never changes nor can He change with respect to His being, attributes, purpose, or promises; excluding process theology, Mormon doctrine of eternal progression.

Unchangeable (Psa. 102:26-27; Isa. 51:6; Mal. 3:6; Rom. 1:23; Heb. 1:11-12; James 1:17; Heb. 13:8)
God’s relations with changing men spoken of as God changing (Ex. 32:9-14; Psa. 18:25-27)

5. ETERNAL: God is perfect in that He transcends all time and temporal limitations, and is thus infinite with respect to time.

Duration through endless ages (Ps. 90:2; 93:2; 102:12; Eph. 3:21)
Unlimited by time (Psa. 90:4; 2 Pet. 3:8)
Creator of the ages ( i.e., of time itself; Heb. 1:2; 11:3)
Implied by doctrines of transcendence, self-existence, and immutability

6. OMNIPRESENT: God is perfect in that He transcends all space and spatial limitations, and is thus infinite with respect to space, with His whole Being filling every part of the universe and being present everywhere (not diffused through the universe, but present at each point in His fullness).

The universe cannot contain God (1 Kings 8:27; Isa. 66:1; Acts 7:48-49)
Present everywhere (Psa. 139:7-10; Acts 17:28; of Christ, Matt. 18:20; 28:20)
Fills all things (Jer. 23:23-24; of Christ, Eph. 1:23; 4:10; Col. 3:11)
Implied by doctrine of transcendence

7. OMNIPOTENT: God is perfect in that He can do all things consistent with the perfection of His being. God cannot do the self-contradictory (e.g., make a rock He cannot lift), nor can He do that which is contrary to His perfect nature (e.g., He cannot change, He cannot lie, etc.).

Nothing too difficult (Gen. 18:14; Jer. 32:17, 27; Zech. 8:6; Matt. 3:9)
All things possible (Job 42:2; Psa. 115:3; Matt. 19:26; Mark 10:27; Luke 1:37; 18:27; Eph. 1:11)
God cannot lie, be tempted, deny Himself, etc. (2 Tim. 2:13; Titus 1:2; Heb. 6:18; James 1:13)

8. OMNISCIENT: God is perfect in that He knows all things, including events before they happen.

Perfect in knowledge, Job 37:16
Knows the heart (1 Sam. 16:7; 1 Chr. 28:9, 17; Psa. 139:1-4; Jer. 17:10a)
Knows all events to come (Isa. 41:22-23; 42:9; 44:7)

9. INCORPOREAL: God has no body or parts, and is immaterial, being a simple and infinite being of spirit; excluding the Mormon doctrine of God as an exalted man.

God is spirit (John 4:24)
God is not a man (Num. 23:19; 1 Sam. 15:29)
Implied by doctrines of self-existence, transcendence, omnipresence, and creation.

10. ONE: God is a perfectly unique and simple, yet incredibly complex triune Godhead, existing as one infinite Being called God. There is therefore only one God, who is called Yahweh in the Old Testament, and who reveals Himself in the persons of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, eternally three in One in the New Testament; thus excluding polytheism, tritheism (belief in three gods), and subordinationism (in which Christ is a lesser god subordinate to the Almighty God).

Only one God (Deut. 6:4; Isa. 43:10; 44:6, 8; 45:5-7, 21-22; Zech. 14:9; 1 Cor. 8:4-6; Gal. 3:20; Eph. 4:5-6; 1 Tim. 2:5; James 2:19)
All other “gods” are incorrectly “so-called,” (1 Cor. 8:4-6; 2 Thess. 2:4)
Moses was “as God,” not God or divine (Ex. 4:16; 7:1)
Satan, idols, and the belly are all false gods (Psa. 96:4-5; 1 Cor. 10:20; 2 Cor. 4:4; Phil. 3:19)
Wicked judges called “gods” in irony, not to describe nature (Psa. 82:1, 6; John 10:34-36)
Yahweh is Elohim (Gen. 2:4; Deut. 4:35, 39; Psa. 100:3 [thus excluding the view of Mormonism that Jehovah and Elohim are distinct beings])
Implied by the doctrines of self-existence, transcendence, and omnipotence

11. CREATOR: God is the One through whom all things have come into existence; by His unbounded power and knowledge He created finite existence ex nihilo and formed the universe as it now is.

Created all things (Gen. 1:1; Psa. 33:6; 102:25; John 1:3; Rom. 11:36; Heb. 1:2; 11:3)
Made all things by Himself (Isa. 44:24)
Implied by doctrine of self-existence

12. PERSONAL: God, as the author of personhood in the created universe, cannot be less than personal Himself; thus He experiences relationships with other persons, or self-conscious beings. Note that God may be more than personal, indeed, His infinite nature suggests that He must be.

Scripture everywhere assumes the personhood of God in the use of personal pronouns, in recording Him speaking and acting willfully, etc. (e.g., Gen. 1:3, 26; Heb. 1:1-2; etc.)
God gives Himself a name (Yahweh), and says “I am” (Exod. 3:14)
Implied by doctrine of creation

13. INCOMPREHENSIBLE: God is incomprehensible, not in the sense that the concept of God is unintelligible, but in the sense that God cannot be fully and directly known by finite creatures, because of His uniqueness and His infinitude.

None like God (Ex. 8:10; 9:14; 15:11; 2 Sam. 7:22; 1 Chr. 17:20; Psa. 86:8; 1 Kgs. 8:23; Isa. 40:18, 25; 44:7; 56:5, 9; Jer. 10:6-7; Micah 7:18)
Analogical language necessary to describe God (Ezek. 1:26-28; Rev. 1:13-16)
God cannot be comprehended as He really is (1 Cor. 8:2-3)
God can only be known as the Son reveals Him (John 1:18; Matt. 11:25-27)

14. MORALLY PERFECT: The following are the moral attributes of God; they are listed here together because God’s moral nature is perfectly unified, with no tension between His wrath and His love, for example.

GOOD: God is morally excellent, and does only good (Gen. 1:31; Deut. 8:16; Psa. 107:8; 118:1; Nahum 1:7; Mark 10:18; Rom. 8:28)
HOLY: God is morally transcendent, utterly separated from all evil, and perfectly pure (Ex. 3:5; Lev. 19:2; Psa. 5:4-6; 99:5; Isa. 6:3; 8:13; Hab. 1:12-13; 1 Pet. 1:14-19)
RIGHTEOUS: God is perfectly moral in all that He does, doing everything right ( Isa. 45:21; Zeph. 3:5; Rom. 3:26)
TRUE: God is perfectly truthful, and cannot lie (John 17:17; Titus 1:2; Heb. 6:18)
LOVING: God’s moral character is pure love, sacrificial giving for the true benefit of another (Deut. 7:7-8; Jer. 31:3; John 3:16; Heb. 12:6)
WRATHFUL: God’s moral perfection requires Him to show displeasure against anything which seeks to act contrary to its moral purpose, to judge that which rebels against His authority as Creator and Lord (Psa. 103:8-9; Rom. 2:5; 11:22; Heb. 10:31)

Sources utilized "gotquestions.com," Christian Research Institute, equip.org, and O Bible.org
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If your religion or denomination tolerates immorality, it is a false religion. James said, "Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of our God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep oneself unstained by the world" (James 1:27).
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"Religious truth is found in the Word of God known as the Holy Bible. Any religious group teaching doctrines or beliefs that deviate from truth can be defined as a cult. False religions or cults either distort truth or focus on half-truths. The small amount of truth which they do proclaim to snare souls is often well blended with doctrinal error and therefore dangerous. Cults succeed in deceiving many" (2 Timothy 4:3-4).

"False religion does not hesitate to use force. The Bible teaches that Satan is the god of this world and desires to take all the glory from God, in order to receive the worship that rightfully belongs only to God. We who are believers must stand strong no matter the consequences to exalt the name of Almighty God."

Jesus answering, said to them, "Take heed, lest anyone deceive you." (Matthew 24:4)

Marty 2020 Loc: Banana Republic of Kalifornia

Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the Word Romans 10:17
Word = Rhema
Not a word or
Any word but
The Word.


For without faith, it is impossible to please God! Hebrews 11:6

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There are two Greek words meaning "word" in the New Testament.

1) Logos
2) Rhema

There are two primary Greek words that describe Scripture which are translated word in the New Testament. The first, "logos," refers principally to the total inspired Word of God and to Jesus, Who is the living Logos.

Logos means in classical Greek both "reason" and "word." The translation "thought" for the Greek term, indicates the faculty of reason, when the word is inwardly conceived in the mind, as well as the word then outwardly expressed through the vehicle of language.

Biblical Examples of Logos

The following passages of Scripture give examples of the logos of God: •“In the beginning was the Word [logos], and the Word [logos] was with God, and the Word [logos] was God” (John 1:1). •“The seed is the word [logos] of God” (Luke 8:11). •“Holding forth the word [logos] of life” (Philippians 2:16). •“Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word [logos] of truth” (II Timothy 2:15). •“For the word [logos] of God is quick, and powerful” (Hebrews 4:12). •“Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word [logos] of God, which liveth and abideth forever” (I Peter 1:23).

The two ideas thought and speech, are indubitably blended in the term "logos," and in every employment of the word, in philosophy and Scripture, both concepts of thought and its outward expression are closely connected.


Rhema—The Spoken Word

The second primary Greek word that describes Scripture is rhema, which refers to a word that is spoken and means “an utterance.”

"Rhema" means "utterance," the act of speaking or otherwise communicating the conceived word.

Marty 2020 Loc: Banana Republic of Kalifornia

Romans 10:17 was the second verse I was taught by the HS. Corinthians 15:33 was the first.
The teacher I had at the time explained that rhema was literally a lesson directly from the HS to the believer. It’s not that it doesn’t have other applications, but when God instructs you directly, you tend to instantly “know” what you now know. Does that make sense?

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Uh, Marty, Would that be God the H.S., who received it from J.C., the Son of God, who originally received it from GTF, God the Father?

Context is everything.

Romans 10:17 is a verse that explains how faith comes from hearing the message of the Gospel, the word of God the Father through Christ, via the inspiration of God the Holy Spirit; The verse is part of a longer passage that discusses the role of preachers, ministers, and apostles in spreading the Gospel.

Romans 10:18 "But I ask, did they not hear? Indeed they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”

The Order of Resurrection 1st Corinthians 15:32-34
"If I fought wild beasts in Ephesus for human motives, what did I gain?
If the dead are not raised, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.”
Do not be deceived: “Bad company corrupts good character.”
Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God.
I say this to your shame."

Marty 2020 Loc: Banana Republic of Kalifornia

Absolutely in that order. Any other spiritual lessons are from false teachings.