Who Is God?: The Problem with Man

By J. I. Roe

Who Is God? The Problem with Man is a book that is meant to introduce you to the triune god, Elohim. It leads you to be able to have a better understanding of who God is and who we are to God. The Introduction alone will provoke the thought and help the reader gain a better understanding of the existence of God so that they can move past the problem of where it came from. This is one book that the reader will not want to skip over the Introduction.

The book is divided into four parts with three parts devoted to each part of the Godhead: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The last part of the book is dedicated to serving God. The author pulls a lot of information from Scripture and the influences of other great authors and pastors, such as C. S. Lewis, A. W. Tozer, Billy Graham, and Dr. Charles Stanley.

The book is meant to provoke the reader to live a life crucified to self and alive with joy in God. It is great for the new Christian as an introduction to God and a guidebook to godly living. It will also be a great book for the Christian who is seeking more in their life, and it will provoke them to find more for their life by living their life less for themselves and more for God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Jul 26, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638447368

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Who Is God?

The Problem with Man

J. I. Roe

Copyright © 2021 by J. I. Roe

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Table of Contents

The Names of God

The Unchanging God

God Is Jealous for You

God’s Love and Grace

The Three Attributes of God

The Names of Jesus

Intro to Jesus

Yeshua the Humble God

Names of the Holy Spirit/Ruach Hakodesh

Who Is the Holy Spirit

How the Holy Spirit Reveals Himself to Me

The Christian Exodus

Qualifications of Being a Disciple

The Joy of Obedience

Read Your Bible

Foreword

We all know the famous painting found at the Sistine Chapel, of God and Adam for a very good reason. In the painting, we see God doing His best trying to reach out to Adam, but Adam is making a lame attempt to try and reach God. Throughout the Bible, we see this same lame attempt with mankind seeking after their own will rather than the will of God. I could even wager that most of us have this same lame attempt of trying to reach God. There weren’t very many men who have ever sought after God with all their soul, mind, heart, and strength; and only a couple of these men had the pleasure of being caught up without dying. Their names are Elijah and Enoch. Now there are many other men of the Bible and throughout our history, they had the same passion similar to those men, such as the prophets and the apostles. Men who chose to live the crucified life, men who gave up the pleasures of the flesh and this world and chose to follow God, but they are too few and far in-between.

Now I understand salvation is by the grace of God through faith in what the Messiah Yeshua did for us on the cross at Calvary and in His resurrection. However, I refuse to live a life based on cherry-picked Bible verses to excuse my life of sin and selfishness. I choose to apply the whole Bible to my life so that I may be well-pleasing to my Father in heaven. The Bible calls for obedience; Christ, Himself called for it. I fully believe that to have an arm outstretched toward God with an extended finger is the life of obedience to the Scripture, to God, and so this book is written by and dedicated to those who have outstretched arms and fingers.

You will find many of my own opinions and revelations expressed herein that some may not be altogether pleased about; please do not let that discourage you from finishing the book. It is a four-part book. The first three are dedicated to God and the last one is what God has done for me and how I have found pleasure in living for Him. I truly hope the reader will be blessed by this book and will be encouraged to seek God even more after reading my book. When we spend our free time seeking God instead of seeking and satisfying ourselves, we are truly satisfied. When we seek ourselves in our free time, we are only temporarily satisfied. This is the truth I have found and I hope to depart this truth to you. God bless you and keep you and cause His countenance to shine upon you and bring you peace. Amen.

Introduction

We are first introduced to God through a different number of ways: our parents, our friends, loved ones, missionaries, pastors, teacher’s social media, there are even many books and websites that will tell us about God. God even has a wiki description. What better place is there to learn about God however than the Holy Bible? Where to begin though? I often run across this question when I tell people to read their Bible. I always give them the same answer—Genesis. For in Genesis, we get truly close to understanding the power of God, and if we study the original language, we can see the intelligent authorship of the Bible as well.

The very first word of Genesis—Bereshit—translates to in the beginning, but we miss much in the translation, such as the symbology of the original language. I will name some videos to research on this later on in this book. Beyt, for instance, is the first letter of the first word of the first verse of the first book of the Bible. In my study and search for truth, I read from a book, Haggadah, which comes from the Jewish pseudepigrapha. It is not scripture and I would not entirely recommend it myself, but within the book, the author writes that God created the universe through the letter Beyt and on this, I would agree with the author just after studying the symbology of the ancient Hebrew.

Let’s breakdown the spelling of the word Beyt, Beyt, Yod, Tav. The letter Beyt is symbolic of a dwelling; it can also mean the universe. Yod is the right hand of God in this instance, and Tav in the ancient language looks like a cross and the right hand of God, as we know who is Jesus. We also know from the Scripture that God created the universe through Jesus (Colossians 1:16). We can break this down further to get more detail by breaking down the spelling of each of the letters used in the word: Beyt, Yod, Dalet Tav, Vav, Lamed, and, Mem.

We already know what Beyt, Yod, and Tav stand for; let’s look at the other letters. Dalet means door, path, through. Vav means man, nail, establish, etc. Lamed means to teach, shepherd, etc. and Mem means water, chaos, messiah, etc. If we put these all together, what do we get? Within these letters, I see a lot of scripture staring at me. For instance, Lamed has the shepherd staff the chaos of the waters and the door. A shepherd has to guide his sheep through the gate to get them into their pen using his staff. We see in the second verse of Genesis that the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the deep. From the chaos, He brought order. He established creation through Jesus the Messiah. Now I get that this may seem pretty scrambled and well, my mind has a hard time piecing together the puzzle of this, but we see the puzzle put together in order through the Scripture. If that isn’t proof of authorship, I don’t know what is.

Let’s move on. In the beginning, Elohim (Genesis 1:1). I need to stop right here in the middle of the verse so that I can explain to you just how much you can learn about God in just one small yet significant part