The question, ?What is God like??, is always one that will provoke discussion and debate. To get an answer, there are two possible approaches.
1. The best scenario would be for God to tell us what He is
like. That would save a lot of conjecture and give us an accurate answer.
2. We could use the evidence we have available to establish that God exists, and then try to ascertain what type of being He is, how He thinks, and how He operates.
This second approach has severe limitations as we are restricted by the sum total of human experience (assuming that it has been recorded and retained accurately). Also, our results will be very subjective as we will end up describing God in terms that we have chosen. They may not be accurate. This could ultimately be defined as personal speculation.
I suggest that the first approach is available to us in the holy book we call the Bible. We are not left to our own personal speculations about God, for we can learn from the revelation which God has given about Himself in His book.
It is, therefore, important for us to consider why we should accept that the Bible is in reality God?s message to the human race, and that it has supernatural authorship. If it is just another ?holy book? written by men, then it is only another form of speculation. This will be the subject of Chapter 1 which I hope you will read carefully.
