Who is the God of the Bible?

God is typically painted in a religious light, meaning He is usually defined by those who worship & serve Him.

For example, the “God” of Israel, or more specifically, the God “of Abraham, Isaac & Jacob”, is defined for us primarily by the Old Testament or the Tanakh, written by men who worshipped & sought to serve Him.

But then, the God “of the Jews” is further defined by the traditions of the elders and rabbinical teachings, in the religion called “Judaism”.

And in the view “of the believers of Jesus Christ”, God is defined further still through the writings of the New Testament, coupled with the traditions & teachings of the Church, in the religion called “Christianity”.

For the past decade (& then some), I spent a huge part of my life trying to understand who the God of the Bible was, apart from all the traditions & teachings of man, be they either Jewish or Christian in nature by studying the Bible more intently.

I found my greatest insight to who that God was, when I turned my attention to the early chapters of Genesis, before Abraham ever came on the scene, and coupled this course of textual study with my personal observations of the natural world.

This is where I draw my understanding of who God is.

In the beginning God created shaped the heaven loft and the earth land.

Genesis 1:1 [revision mine]

God is the Maker of the natural world and the Source of all life. His handiwork is all around us for all to see, and His established Natural Law & Order is universal for all to experience its justice.

This is the God I worship and serve.