Chapter Two: God and the Holy Trinity

Section

2.2

: Footnotes and Supportive Scripture

The Foundation of All

God, having all life, glory, goodness, blessedness, in and from himself is unique in being all-sufficient, both in himself and to himself, not standing in need of any creature which he has made, nor deriving any glory from such. On the contrary, it is God who manifests his own glory in them, through them, to them and upon them. He is the only fountain of all being; from whom, through whom, and to whom all things exist and move. He has completely sovereign dominion over all creatures, to do through them, for them, or to them whatever he pleases. In his sight all things are open and manifest; his knowledge is infinite, infallible, and not dependent on the creature. Therefore, nothing is for him contingent or uncertain. He is most holy in all his counsels, in all his works, and in all his commands. To him is due from angels and men whatever worship, service, or obedience, they owe as creatures to the creator, and whatever else he is pleased to require from them.

Ps 119:68
You are good and do good; teach me your statutes.
Ps 148:13
Let them praise the name of the Lord, for his name alone is exalted; his majesty is above earth and heaven.
John 5:26
For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.
Job 22:2-3
2 “Can a man be profitable to God? Surely he who is wise is profitable to himself. 3 Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?
Acts 17:25
Nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
Acts 17:28
for “‘In him we live and move and have our being’; as even some of your own poets have said,“ ‘For we are indeed his offspring.’
Rom 11:34-36
34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?” 35 “Or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid?” 36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.
1 Chr 29:11
Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are exalted as head above all.
Ps 103:19
The Lord has established his throne in the heavens, and his kingdom rules over all.
Ps 115:3
Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.
Dan 4:25
that you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field. You shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and you shall be wet with the dew of heaven, and seven periods of time shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men and gives it to whom he will.
Dan 4:34-35
34 At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation; 35 all the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, and he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”
Heb 4:13
And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Isa 40:13-14, 27-28
13 Who has measured the Spirit of the Lord, or what man shows him his counsel? 14 Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? 27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the Lord, and my right is disregarded by my God”? 28 Have you not known? Have you not heard? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Isa 46:10
declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
1 John 3:20
for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything.
Ps 145:17
The Lord is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works.
Rev 19:10
Then I fell down at his feet to worship him, but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who hold to the testimony of Jesus. Worship God.” For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.
Rev 22:9
but he said to me, “You must not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.”
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