God is Absolute | TCOULTER.ORG

God is an absolute, but our understanding is not. Our limited human mind, confused by the mixed feelings of our heart, the knowledge of good and evil, and the needs of the human body, cannot understand the purity of God’s word. Everything we see and hear is filtered by our mortality and the impurity of the past. Even our ability to understand the completeness of God is hampered by our incompleteness. Mankind is a creation not yet finished in our own understanding of self. Mankind is not absolute of himself.

“By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work” (Genesis 2:2 NIV). “In his defense Jesus said to them, ‘My Father is always at his work to this very day, and I too am working’” (John 5:17 NIV). The Son of God (being God, see John 1:1-2) is absolute. The only way both of scripture statements can be true is if the one in Genesis 2:2 is a prophecy. What is the prophecy? On the seventh day God will end His work of creation, and He will rest from all His works. The works of God is to be the righteousness of mankind, until mankind is created into the image of God, absolute. Right now, the only way mankind can be complete is by the grace of God – God’s works being counted as our works of righteousness and our faith (belief) in God counted as righteousness. Our complete creation is incomplete without the works of Jesus the Christ – the work of God.

Our absolute faith in God is hampered by our human needs and wants. It is difficult for us to let go of the things we have to serve another for fear that our needs or wants will not be met. Our faith is made incomplete by the frailty of our human existence. Understanding that fact, God has been faithful for us; “being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” (Philippians 1:6 NIV). “Now may the God of peace, who through the blood of the eternal covenant brought back from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, equip you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen” (Hebrews 13:20-21 NIV). God does a work in us that is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ – a work to complete.

Our mortal state cannot comprehend being eternal. Being alive we find it hard to understand our own death, but we also find it hard to understand eternal. Eternal is more than from one point in time going on forever. Eternal has no beginning and no end. How can God give to mortals a life that had no beginning and no end? He is giving us His life. “Then God said, ‘Let us make mankind in our image, in our likenesses’” (Genesis 1:26a NIV). That creation is not complete. Mankind does not yet have God’s life eternal. As Jesus died on the cross, He said, “It is finished.” Everything was now in place to bring mankind into the fullness of God. God had given His life for mankind and now mankind could truly have God’s life eternal.

God is absolute. When Jesus returned to the Father in Heaven, He asked the Father to send the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is also God and also absolute. The Holy Spirit speaks the absolute truth, but mankind cannot fully understand absolute truth. But, by the power of the Holy Spirit the absolute truth can be revealed to us. “As for you, the anointing you received from him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things and as that anointing is real, not counterfeit—just as it has taught you, remain in him” (1 John 2:27 NIV). Then we run into the issue of sharing the absolute truth with others that cannot understand without the revelation of the Holy Spirit. “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8 NIV). It is God’s understanding that is absolute.

Tim D. Coulter Sr.