How to Become a Friend of God: The 52 Attributes of God, #53

By Raymond Creed

Designed to help any seeker after truth, this booklet explores how it's possible to become a 'Friend of God' through loosing faith in ourselves and our ability to ever please Him by our own efforts. It looks at the obstacles to knowing God and how these maybe overcome through receiving the gift of faith in Christ. Great emphasis is placed upon the many benefits of resulting Christ's sacrificial death on the cross.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Raymond Creed
• Release date: Jan 12, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393436003

Raymond Creed

Published Under the Pen Name of Raymond Creed On Lulu Publications Facing the Unthinkable (2010) (What the Jewish People May Feel When They Find their True Messiah) The 52 Attributes of God (2011) (A Bible-Based Analysis of the Attributes of God – With Particular Reference to the Relationship between Divine Holiness and Divine Love) The Leeds Liturgy (2010) (A Prayer Book enabling Christians to ‘Worship God in Spirit and in Truth’) The Phantom Conflict (2010) (Bible teaching on the relationship between divine holiness and divine love in connection with Christian idolatry and the need for a balanced Christian life) Reaching Across the Chasm (2019) (An Unlikely Dialogue between a Male Religious Conservative and a Christian Lesbian Writer) Ancient Passions (2020) (Exploring the Spiritual Crisis of our Time) How I Became  Christian Regarding becoming Christian I was: - 1. Led by the Revd Richard Bolt to ask Jesus Christ into my life at a boys’ camp in Croyde North Devon, during August 1968 (and in late August 1969 and 1970 because I lacked assurance) 2. Finally re-born through receiving a direct vision of Christ at a Student Christian Union meeting (held in a student flat in Newcastle upon Tyne) on Saturday, 18th October 1975 (around 8.00p.m) 3. Baptized in the Holy Spirit at a prayer meeting on Thursday, 27th November 1975 (began to pray with tongues the following Monday evening) 4. Given a full immersion (Trinitarian) water baptism on the evening of Sunday, 5th September 1976.

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How to Become a Friend of God

The 52 Attributes of God, Volume 53

Raymond Creed

Published by Raymond Creed, 2021.

While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this book, the publisher assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from the use of the information contained herein.

HOW TO BECOME A FRIEND OF GOD

First edition. January 12, 2021.

Copyright © 2021 Raymond Creed.

ISBN: 978-1393436003

Written by Raymond Creed.

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HOW TO BECOME A FRIEND OF GOD? | (Finding God by Losing Faith in Ourselves) | Raymond Creed

HOW TO BECOME A FRIEND OF GOD?

(Finding God by Losing Faith in Ourselves)

Raymond Creed

Copyright © the Author 2014

(Backdated to cover all material produced by the author before 2014)

All Rights Reserved: The Moral Right of the author has been asserted.

First electronic edition: Monday 4th August 2014

SECTION 1: OBSTACLES TO BECOMING A FRIEND OF GOD

Having explored the 52 Attributes of God the next step is to explore the simple yet profound notion of becoming a friend (and maintaining a life-long friendship) with God. However, the following five (seemingly insurmountable) barriers appear to stand implacably in the way of such a friendship: -

1) Limited capacity – by nature Man is a limited creature, incapable of relating to an unlimited Being, whose characteristics far surpass his own at every level, (Isaiah 55:8)

2) Sin – this lies at the heart of every human being. It causes Man to turn away from God and to defy His laws; opting to follow the self-centred road to eternal destruction. Mankind would prefer to continually entertain incorrect and even ridiculous ideas about God rather than admit to being inherently sinful and in need of salvation, (Genesis 3:8-13)

3) God’s justified outrage against sin – this provokes God to withdraw His blessings and to inflict His perfectly fair judgements in order to forcibly remove sin, (Romans 1:18)

4) Living in a Fallen Creation – Mankind must continually battle with all of the world’s distracting troubles and pressures which frequently