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Question 27: Then, since maintaining creation in its proper state is a greater task than creating it once, why do you call God simply the Creator?

  Question 27: Then, since maintaining creation in its proper state is a greater task than creating it once, why do you call God simply the Creator? Answer: This does not mean that God, after completing the great task of creating creation with His own hands, abandons it and does not care for it. Rather, it means that just as the world was first created by God, He still maintains it in that state, and that heaven, earth, and all creatures could not maintain their existence without His power. Furthermore, because God holds all creatures in His hands, He has the authority to rule and govern all things. Therefore, because God is the Creator of heaven and earth, He directs all natural order through His love, power, and wisdom. This means that He gives rain and drought, hail and storms, good weather, abundant harvests and famine, health and various diseases. In short, this means that God always places all creatures under His rule so that they may serve Him according to His will. God's pl...
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The Password to the Door to the Kingdom of God

  The Password to the Door to the Kingdom of God   When looking at a house today, there is a front door, and most homes have smart keys that require a password to open. Just as one cannot enter a house without knowing the password, I think that the Kingdom of God also has a password. It means that the condition for entering the Kingdom of God is not simply living a life of hard work, devotion, and sacrifice, but rather that there is a mutual promise, like a password. This mutual promise is a covenant between God and man, and that is what the password is. Ephesians 5:31-32 "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is profound, as I speak concerning Christ and the church." Here, the word "mystery" appears. The Apostle Paul said, "A man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. This mystery is great." What does ...
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Question 26: Do you exclude other creatures from the words "heaven and earth"?

  Question 26: Do you exclude other creatures from the words "heaven and earth"? Answer: No. Other creatures are also included in these two words, for all creatures belong either to heaven or to earth. Heaven represents the Kingdom of God, and the earth represents the material world. The Kingdom of God is a spiritual world where God is the master, and in the Kingdom of God, angels exist as spiritual creatures. The material world is where creatures made of matter exist, such as humans and animals. Humans are beings who combine spirit and body. Although God is also the master of the material world, for a period from creation to the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, God permitted Satan to rule over it. Therefore, Satan and his angels exist within the material world. This means they do not exist materially, but rather spiritually, ruling over the spirits within the body.
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Question 25: Why did you add that God is the Lord who created heaven and earth?

Question 25: Why did you add that God is the Lord who created heaven and earth? Answer: Since God has revealed Himself to us through His works, we must seek and find Him in them. For our intellect is incapable of understanding God's essence. However, the world is like a mirror to us, through which we can see God to the extent that we are able to know Him. In Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," "beginning" means "first," or "head." "Heaven and earth" refer to heaven and earth. "Heaven" does not refer to the ethereal sky, but rather to the kingdom of God, and "earth" refers to the material world. God is in His kingdom, so why did He create the earth out of dust? The earth is like a prison, created to confine the spirits of angels who sinned in God's kingdom. That's why Genesis 1:2 says, "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, ...
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Question 23-24

  Question 23: In what sense do you think God is omnipotent? Answer: This does not simply mean that God has power but no longer uses it; rather, it means that God holds all creatures in His hand and sovereignty, disposes of all things according to His providence, governs the world according to His will, and directs all that happens as He pleases. The word omnipotent has a variety of meanings. It means being able to do everything, but its meaning can be expressed more specifically as follows: First, God is the One who creates something from nothing with His words. Second, He is the God of order. We can see that God plans everything and operates according to that plan. Third, He is eternal life, without death. Therefore, He resurrected Jesus, who died on the cross. All life is lived by the life given by God. Fourth, He is not bound by time and space. He exists equally in the past, present, and future.   Question 24: So, according to what you say, God's power is n...
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Question 21-22

  [God the Father] Question 21: Now, tell us the first part of the Apostles' Creed. Answer: I believe in God the Father Almighty, Latin: Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem, English: I believe in God the Father Almighty.   The English translation is no different from the English Apostles' Creed we use today. Question 22: Why do you call God "Father"? Answer: It is the name by which Jesus Christ calls God (the Father). He is the eternal Word of God, begotten of God (the Father) from all eternity. Then, when He appeared in the world, He was acknowledged and known as the Son of God. From the fact that God is the Father of Jesus Christ, it follows that God is also our Father. Jesus Christ is both the Son of Man and the Son of God. Jesus Christ died on the cross as a substitute, bearing all the sins of the first man's sinful body as the Son of Man, thus fulfilling what was planned before the foundation of the world. And as the Son of God, He was resurr...
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Question 20

  Question 20: Do you understand that it is not at all inappropriate for us to clearly distinguish three persons in the one God, and that God is not divided (separated) in spite of this? Answer: Yes. In today's church community, believers call God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, based on the doctrine of the Trinity. However, nowhere in the Bible does it say God the Son or God the Holy Spirit. Jesus Christ calls God the Father and is the Son of God. Furthermore, the Holy Spirit is called the Spirit of Jehovah in the Old Testament and the Spirit of Jesus (or the Spirit of Christ) in the New Testament. Jesus was born both as the Son of Man and as the Son of God. Although he was in very nature God, he did not consider equality with God something to be grasped. Philippians 2:6 says, "Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped." Why must Jesus be the Son of God, not God Himself? First, because God is revea...
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