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God the Father

Topics

The Existence of God (Vs. Atheism)

1. God’s Incomprehensibility

2. Knowability of God

3. Evidence for the Existence of God

1. God’s Personal Name

2. God’s Titles

3. God’s Metaphorical Names

1. God’s Foreknowledge

2. Predestination

The Nature of God

1. The Spirituality of God (Vs. Materialism)

2. The Personality of God (Vs. Pantheism)

3. The Unity of God (Vs. Polytheism)

4. The Trinity (Vs. Unitarianism)

1. Attributes Describing God in Himself​:

God’s Self-Existence

God’s Unity

God’s Spirituality

God’s Simplicity

God’s Immutability

God’s Infinity

God’s Eternity

God’s Omnipresence

God’s Omniscience

God’s Omnipotence

God’s Glory

God's Will​

A. Creation

1. Creation ex nihilo

2. The Spiritual World

3. The Material World

 

B. Providence 

1. Providence and Miracles

2. Providence and Concursus

3. God’s Preservation of Creation

4. God’s Sovereignty over Creation

1. The Unity of the Trinity

2. The Plurality of the Trinity

3. The Trinity and Scripture

4. Historical Development of the Doctrine of the Trinity

2. Attributes Describing God in His Activity toward Creatures

God’s Goodness

God’s Love

God’s Mercy

God’s Grace

God’s Holiness

God’s Righteousness

God’s Veracity

God’s Wisdom

God’s Wrath

God's Faithfulness

God's Patience

God's Justice

God's Jealousy

C. Covenants

1. The Covenant with Creation

2. The Covenant with Noah

3. The Covenant with Abraham

4. The Covenant at Sinai

5. The Covenant with David

6. The New Covenant

Notes:

William Evans and S. Maxwell Coder, The Great Doctrines of the Bible, Enl. ed. (Chicago: Moody Press, 1974), 7.
Peter J. Gentry and Stephen J. Wellum, God’s Kingdom through God’s Covenants: A Concise Biblical Theology (Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2015), 50–51.

Mark Ward et al., eds., Lexham Survey of Theology (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2018).

 YouTube Playlist on God

The Knowability of God

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The Trinity

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Creation

The Providence of God

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The Sovereignty of God

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