A. W. Tozer wrote, “’What is God like?’ If by that question we mean ‘What is God like in Himself?’ there is no answer. If we mean ‘What has God disclosed about Himself that the reverent reason can comprehend?’ there is, I believe, an answer both full and satisfying.”
disclosed 디스클로우즈드 공개된
reverent 레버런트 경건한
comprehend 캄프리헨드 이해하다
Tozer is right in that we cannot know what God is with respect to Himself. The book of Job declares, “Can you discover the depths of God? Can you discover the limits of the Almighty? They are high as the heavens, what can you do? Deeper than Sheol, what can you know?” (Job 11:7–8).
Sheol 스올
However, we can ask what God has revealed about Himself in His Word and in creation that “the reverent reason” can grasp.
grasp 그래스프 이해하다. (understand)
When Moses was directed by God to go to the Egyptian Pharaoh and demand the release of the Israelites, Moses asked God, “Behold, I am going to the sons of Israel, and I will say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you.’ Now they may say to me, ‘What is His name?’ What shall I say to them?” (Exodus 3:13).
Behold 바라보다, 주시하다.
The answer God gave Moses was simple, yet very revealing: “God said to Moses, ‘I AM WHO I AM’; and He said, ‘Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, “I AM has sent me to you”’” (Exodus 3:14). The Hebrew text in verse 14 literally says, “I be that I be.”
하나님께서 모세에게 주신 대답은 단순했지만, 매우 많은 것을 드러내는 말씀이었습니다: “하나님이 모세에게 말씀하시되, ‘나는 스스로 있는 자니라(I AM WHO I AM)’ 하시고, 또 이르시되, ‘너는 이스라엘 자손에게 이같이 이르기를, “스스로 있는 자(I AM)가 나를 너희에게 보내셨다 하라”’ 하시니라” (출애굽기 3:14).
히브리어 원문에서는 이 14절이 문자 그대로 “나는 존재하는 자이다(I be that I be)”라는 뜻입니다.
reveal 드러내다 (계시하다)
여기서 "yet"은: "앞의 말(단순했다)"과 뒤의 말(계시적이었다)를 대조해서 연결하는 역할을 한다.
즉, 단순한 것처럼 보이지만 실제로는 깊은 의미가 있었다는 강조를 나타냄.
이 문장의 yet은 "하지만", "그럼에도 불구하고"로 자연스럽게 번역되며, "단순한 대답이었지만, 실제로는 깊은 진리를 드러내는 말이었다"는 의미를 강조하고 있다.
Hebrew text 히브리어
This name speaks to the fact that God is pure existence, or what some call pure actuality. Pure actuality is that which IS with no possibility to not exist. Put another way, many things can have existence (e.g., human beings, animals, plants), but only one thing can be existence. Other things have “being” but only God is Being.
what some 어떤 사람들
Pure actuality is that which IS with no possibility to not exist.
"순수 실제(Pure actuality)란 존재하지 않을 가능성이 전혀 없는 '존재 그 자체'이다."
God is Being 모든 존재의 기준이며 근원이며 본질이심을 뜻함.
is 그 자체이신 하나님
be 그 자체이신 하나님.
have existence vs. be existence
→ 인간이나 생명체는 존재를 '가질 수' 있지만,
하나님은 존재 그 자체임
(존재의 근원이자 본질)
The fact that God alone is Being leads to at least five truths about what God is – what type of being God is.
God alone 오직 하나님만이, 하나님 한 분 만이.
- God alone is worthy of worship.
- → 오직 하나님만이 경배받으시기에 합당하시다.
- Salvation belongs to God alone.
- → 구원은 오직 하나님께 속해 있다.
- God alone knows the heart.
- → 하나님 한 분만이 마음을 아신다.
“To God alone wise, be glory through Jesus Christ forever.”
(Romans 16:27, NKJV)
First, God alone is a self-existent being and the first cause of everything else that exists. John 5:26 simply says, “The Father has life in Himself.” Paul preached, “He is not served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives all men life and breath and everything else” (Acts 17:25).
• a self-existent being → 스스로 존재하시는 존재
단어 품사 뜻
| being | 명사 | 존재, 실체, 존재하는 자 |
preached 프리치트 설교하다 전도하다.
Second, God is a necessary being. A necessary being is one whose nonexistence is impossible. Only God is a necessary being; all other things are contingent beings, meaning they could not exist. However, if God did not exist, then neither would anything else. He alone is the necessary being by which everything else currently exists – a fact that Job states: “If He should determine to do so, If He should gather to Himself His spirit and His breath, All flesh would perish together, And man would return to dust” (Job 34:14–15).
contingent 컨틴전트 불확정의
flesh 플레쉬 육체
Third, God is a personal being. The word personal in this context does not describe personality (e.g., funny, outgoing, etc.); rather, it means “having intent.” God is a purposeful being who has a will, creates, and directs events to suit Him. The prophet Isaiah wrote, “I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things which have not been done, saying, ‘My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure’” (Isaiah 46:9–10).
prophet 프라펏 선지자
Fourth, God is a triune being. This truth is a mystery, yet the whole of Scripture and life in general speaks to this fact. The Bible clearly articulates that there is but one God: “Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one” (Deut. 6:4). But the Bible also declares that there is a plurality to God. Before Jesus ascended to heaven, He commanded His disciples: “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19). Notice the singular “name” in the verse; it does not say “names,” which would convey three gods. There is one name belonging to the three Persons who make up the Godhead.
triune 트라이언 삼위일체의
Scripture 스크립처 성경
articulates 아아티켤럿스 명료한,
plurality 플러랠리티 대다수, 복수, 과반수
baptizing 뱁타이징 세례를 베풀다
singular 싱결러 남다른 특이한, 희귀한
Scripture in various places clearly calls the Father God, Jesus God, and the Holy Spirit God. For example, the fact that Jesus possesses self-existence and is the first cause of everything is stated in the first verses of John: “All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life” (John 1:3–4). The Bible also says that Jesus is a necessary being: “He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together” (Colossians 1:17).
possesses 퍼제서즈 소유하다
Fifth, God is a loving being. In the same way that many things can exist but only one thing can be existence, people and other living things can possess and experience love, but only one thing can be love. First John 4:8 makes the simple ontological statement, “God is love.”
ontological 안털라지컬 존재론적인
What is God? God is the only one who can say, “I be that I be.” God is pure existence, self-existent, and the source of everything else that possesses existence. He is the only necessary being, is purposeful/personal, and possesses both unity and diversity.
unity 통일성
diversity 다양성
God is also love. He invites you to seek Him and discover the love He has for you in His Word and in the life of His Son Jesus Christ, the one who died for your sins and made a way for you to live with Him for eternity.
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