The Power of God: Difference between revisions
Created page with "thumb| 280px |Westerlund 2 star cluster, captured by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, 2009. Source: ESA/Hubble The '''power of God''' is limitless. It transcends all human ability and imagination. God, the Alpha and the Omega, exists from eternity in and of Himself and endures forever without end.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?searc..." |
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===Sovereignty Over Life and Death=== | ===Sovereignty Over Life and Death=== | ||
[[file:Tissot Water Is Changed into Blood.jpg |thumb| 280px |''Water Is Changed into Blood'', James Tissot (1836–1902), depicting one of the ten plagues of Egypt]] | [[file:Tissot Water Is Changed into Blood.jpg |thumb| 280px |''Water Is Changed into Blood'', James Tissot (1836–1902), depicting one of the ten plagues of Egypt]] | ||
The omnipotent and omnipresent God rules sovereignly over life and death, blessing and calamity. He gives life<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+2%3A7&version=NIV |title=Genesis 2:7 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+17%3A25&version=NIV |title=Acts 17:25 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> and takes it away.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+12%3A20&version=NIV |title=Luke 12:20 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> He extends the days of the dying<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+20%3A6&version=NIV |title=2 Kings 20:6 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> and raises the dead to life again.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+11%3A43-44&version=NIV |title=John 11:43–44 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref>{{quote5 |내용= “See, I set before you today '''life''' and '''prosperity''', '''death''' and '''destruction'''.” |출처= [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+30%3A15&version=NIV Deuteronomy 30:15]}} | |||
The omnipotent and omnipresent God rules sovereignly over life and death, blessing and calamity. He gives life<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+2%3A7&version=NIV |title=Genesis 2:7 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+17%3A25&version=NIV |title=Acts 17:25 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> and takes it away.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+12%3A20&version=NIV |title=Luke 12:20 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> He extends the days of the dying<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Kings+20%3A6&version=NIV |title=2 Kings 20:6 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> and raises the dead to life again.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+11%3A43-44&version=NIV |title=John 11:43–44 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> | |||
{{quote5 |내용= “See, I set before you today '''life''' and '''prosperity''', '''death''' and '''destruction'''.” |출처= [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy+30%3A15&version=NIV Deuteronomy 30:15]}} | |||
When wickedness filled the earth in the days of [[Noah]], God sent rain for forty days and nights and destroyed the world by flood.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+7%3A11-12&version=NIV |title=Genesis 7:11–12 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> In the time of [[Abraham]], He consumed Sodom and Gomorrah with fire.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+19%3A24-25&version=NIV |title=Genesis 19:24–25 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> In Egypt, He struck the land with ten plagues, including blood, frogs, pestilence, and hail. In the [[Life in the Desert|wilderness]], He sent venomous snakes to punish Israel’s grumbling, yet also provided healing.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+21%3A6-9&version=NIV |title=Numbers 21:6–9 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> During the [[Babylonian Captivity|Babylonian exile]], [[Daniel (Prophet)|Daniel]]’s three friends, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, were preserved by God, so that not a hair of their heads was singed in the blazing furnace.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+3%3A26-27&version=NIV |title=Daniel 3:26–27 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> | When wickedness filled the earth in the days of [[Noah]], God sent rain for forty days and nights and destroyed the world by flood.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+7%3A11-12&version=NIV |title=Genesis 7:11–12 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> In the time of [[Abraham]], He consumed Sodom and Gomorrah with fire.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+19%3A24-25&version=NIV |title=Genesis 19:24–25 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> In Egypt, He struck the land with ten plagues, including blood, frogs, pestilence, and hail. In the [[Life in the Desert|wilderness]], He sent venomous snakes to punish Israel’s grumbling, yet also provided healing.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers+21%3A6-9&version=NIV |title=Numbers 21:6–9 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> During the [[Babylonian Captivity|Babylonian exile]], [[Daniel (Prophet)|Daniel]]’s three friends, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, were preserved by God, so that not a hair of their heads was singed in the blazing furnace.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel+3%3A26-27&version=NIV |title=Daniel 3:26–27 |publisher= |quote= }}</ref> | ||