God as a Character


The first character of Genesis is God Himself. In the first chapter, we begin to know his character through His creative work. The Bible does not bring the intention of proving the existence of God. His authors started from an absolute presupposition, which is faith. They did not try to convince the reader, but to teach as to God.

Reading the history of the creation, we find God as a being:
Eternal – therefore it is not spoken about His beginning.
Wise – therefore He created everything in the best way.
Almighty – possessing the power to create all the things.
Creative – He put into action the power of creating.
Organized – He created everything in a coherent order, in a way that the first creatures prepared the environment for the following ones.
Objective - all the creatures had been made with a definite purpose.
Kind - everything that He made was good.
Blessed - He prepared a paradise for man.
Sovereign - The universe moves under His orders

A plural God – At some moments of the creation, God uses verbs in the plural (Gn.1.26; 11.7). We believe in the presence of the; Father, the Son and of the Holy Spirit (1.2). In other verses, the God’s name is plural (Elohim), but the verb is singular (Gn.1.1)

The only one God - The Genesis does not present many gods, each creating a part of the universe. Only one God created all things.

Lord – Because of having created all the things, He is the owner of all, inclusive of all the human beings. We are His.

Legislator – In chapter 1, we see the determination of several natural laws, which are still true today. By example, in the verse 11, is determined that the herbs produce seeds and that in them are the genetic characteristics of the plant. God determined the place for each thing to be created: the dry land, the sea, the animals, the fish, the stars, etc.

This order of the universe, its balance and function, is some of the innumerable evidences of the existence of God.

Chapters 1 and 2 refute polytheism, pantheism and deism. We see a God different from the creation, who cares about the created beings, principally, man.