QUESTION: What is God like?

ANSWER: The Bible reveals many attributes of the personality and character of God. Like a person, He has personality and character. He is eternal, a spirit-being. He is omniscient (all-knowing); nothing escapes His knowledge. He is omnipotent (all-powerful). He is omnipresent (everywhere present). He is all-wise. As a being, God apparently also has emotions. We are told that He grieves, and also laughs. He is holy, pure, righteous, and perfect. He is also revealed as faithful, merciful, kind, and loving. In fact, He personifies love so much that the Bible declares, "God is love." He is also just and intolerant of sin and evil. But in His love, He has provided an answer to these things through His Son. In Jesus the fullness of God was said to dwell, so if we want to know what God is like, we look at what Jesus is like. "He who has seen me has seen the Father," Jesus said.