God

AI summary: God's significance cannot be reduced to a single storyline role because every major biblical theme depends on who God is and what he does. The cross references present him as Creator over all things, the covenant Lord of Israel, the holy judge of sin, the deliverer of his people, the giver of law and wisdom, the one who speaks through prophets, and the Father revealed in the mission of Jesus Christ. Across Scripture, God is shown not as a distant principle but as the active, personal, and sovereign center of the biblical narrative. Taken together, these references make clear that every page of the Bible is ultimately theological because it is ordered around God's character, rule, and redemptive purpose.¹

(A.S. and Dutch God; Dan. Gud; Ger. Gott), the name of the Divine Being. It is the rendering (1) of the Hebrew ’El, from a word meaning to be strong; (2) of ’Eloah_, plural _’Elohim. The singular form, Eloah, is used only in poetry. The plural form is more commonly used in all parts of the Bible, The Hebrew word Jehovah (q.v.), the only other word generally employed to denote the Supreme Being, is uniformly rendered in the Authorized Version by “LORD,” printed in small capitals. The existence of God is taken for granted in the Bible. There is nowhere any argument to prove it. He who disbelieves this truth is spoken of as one devoid of understanding (Ps. 14:1). The arguments generally adduced by theologians in proof of the being of God are: ³