by Vincent Charles

Created on: February 06, 2010   Last Updated: February 11, 2010

The Merriam Webster dictionary defines character as; “one of the attributes or features that make up and distinguish an individual.” Our Father God has a very complex personality with many incredible characteristics. To know God, and to know who we are to Him is to know His characteristics, and since we were made in His likeness (Genesis 1:26), we are capable of many of these attributes.

The first verse in the Bible, Genesis 1:1 tells us that, “In the Beginning God created the Heavens and the Earth.” This verse states two things, first, there is God and God only, and there is no other God besides Him. The second is that God is a creator, in the beginning of recordable history, God created all things, including man, and since He created mankind in His image, we also have the ability to be creators. When God hand formed Adam from the dust of the ground, he gave Adam a mind with the ability to be creative, and an imagination. These two attributes put together has given man the ability to be innovative, this attribute was demonstrated by Adam in Genesis 2:19-20,  when God brought before him all the animals to be named. Since God created the earth, He gave man all the resources to be creative with, which man has used since the beginning of time to develop the many inventions in which we all benefit from in our daily lives.

Holiness is absence from any form of evil. Leviticus 11:44 declares that God is Holy and demands us to be Holy. 1 John 1:5 (NKJV) states, “This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.” Likewise, God calls us to be Holy and keep evil out of our lives. To obtain this we must understand that sin is disobedience towards God and is evil. Adam and Eve brought evil into the perfect world that God had created, and were to be punished by death, but because God is Holy, His grace and mercy overcame His wrath and rather than taking their lives, He took the life of an innocent animal and covered their sin with its blood. This foretells that God would bring His Son, Jesus Christ, a man without sin, who would die to take away the sins of mankind.

John 3:16-18 (NKJV) says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.  For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.  He who

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