The Personality of God

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 15, 1869

The Personality of God.

WE should speak of the existence of the infinite Creator with profound reverence, and with deep self-abasement. God is a Spirit. John iv, 24. This does not reduce him to a mere unreal or unsubstantial being. Beyond all doubt he has a personal existence in the highest sense of the term. The Son of God is the brightness of the Father’s glory, and the express image of his person. Heb. i, 1–3. It is proper to point out the great error of those who represent God as an impersonal being, diffused as a subtle fluid everywhere through space. Yet in combating this mischievous error we should not inadvertently use language that can be handled in a sense utterly unlike that intended. To speak of God as an “organized being” may be the occasion for men to say that we hold God to have had an organizer, i. e., that he is himself a created being.