News and Information from
https://CharacterofGod.org
December 3, 2023
The place to learn about the character of God
This newsletter reports news from and additions to the website https://characterofGod.org since the last newsletter (September 3, 2023). Aside from additions listed herein, I am always making improvements to pages to make this website a valuable resource and hub of information about the character of God, the people who are foremost in promoting it and more.
VIDEOS, VIDEOS AND MORE VIDEOS
The team has been working hard to get past videos organized with the result that now there are over 90 videos available. They provide a great deal of information on the true character of our ever-merciful, non-violent God of other-centered love including studies on the character of God in the book of Revelation, and studies on individual difficult verses.
Most of these are videos of our weekly group study sessions (via Zoom) which have been ongoing for several years. Some still require editing to improve the quality but we are working on that.
Follow the link below the title for each group of videos below for a page giving details of each video.
The YouTube channel connected to this website is: https://youtube.com/@characterofGodvideos. Please give videos a like and share with others as you feel is appropriate.
Character of God Study Videos
https://characterofGod.org/character-of-god-videos
Difficult Verse Videos
Glossary Word Videos
https://characterofgod.org/glossary-videos/
Many of our studies discuss various Biblical terms which is part of the process of preparing to add them to the Character of God and the Gospel Glossary. This is an important resource where you can see detailed studies of many common terms in the Bible that have been misunderstood. Now, for many words, you can read the study or watch a video.
Here are the available videos:
Power Point Presentation Videos
Revelation Series Videos
https://characterofgod.org/revelation-videos/
We are presently (but nearly finished) going through the book of Revelation to especially look at where an understanding of the true character of God impacts its meaning.
The Character of God and the Gospel Glossary
I like to remind readers about this valuable resource to help understand terms that are understood differently between the Traditional Legal and the Biblical Healing models of the gospel.
Here are the terms in the glossary at present with links to entries:
accuser, advocate (with intercession), anger (with wrath), appease, arbitrary,* arrows, atonement, awe (with fear), Biblical Healing Model,* blood, blot, books/records, born again, breach, chastening of the Lord, command, condemnation, consequence-natural,* conscience, consumed, covenant, cross, curse, cut off, destroy/destruction, destroyer, discomfited, dispensation, dominion, eternal/everlasting/forever, fear, fire, forgiveness, forsake, free will* (with command), glory, gospel, guilt (with shame), hardened, hell, hiding the face, holy, hornets, intercession, intercessor, jealous God, judgment, just (a just man), just (God is just), justice, justification, justified (with justification), kill, kingdom of God, law, law-design,* law-imposed,* legalism,* lightning (with arrows), lion, longsuffering, love, mark, mediator (with intercession), mercy, murder (with kill), name, of the Lord, overthrow, penal substitution,* perfection, price (with ransom), pricks (with discomfited), probation, propitiation, punishment, ransom, recompense, reconciliation, redeemed (with ransom), remission, repentance, righteousness, sacrifice, sanctification, sanctuary, sealed, second death, sent (“the Lord sent”), shame, sin, sin (made to be), sinful flesh (with sin, made to be), sinner, smote, strange act, sovereign,* surely die, sword, torment, Traditional Legal Model,*veil, vengeance, visit, works, wrath
*Supplemental terms, (not actually in the Bible, KJV)
Terms included with another indicated by: “(with …)”
Terms that may yet be added (and probably more) as studies and editing are done:
believe/faith/trust, brimstone, consume away, converted, destroying angel, grace, idolatry, imparted/imputed, omniscience*, rod of iron, salvation, scapegoat, stoning, tithing, worship
To understand the message you need to know the meaning of its words.
Books and Tracts
We continue to distribute books worldwide and have partners in various countries who can send in their areas to reduce postage costs. The booklet The Lake of Fire and the Second Death is now translated into Ekegusii (a language in Kenya) and is in process of being distributed there.
Tracts
Tract number 3 – God’s Justice in the series Two Ways to Understand the Gospel is now complete. Each of these tri-fold tracts examines a different aspect of the character of God. They are available as PDF files that anyone can download, print, fold and share. More titles will be added in the future. Download at: https://characterofgod.org/resources/#tracts
Previous Newsletters
Past newsletters can be accessed at: https://characterofgod.org/newsletters/
My Other Website/Newsletter
For more good spiritual material, please see my other website https://www.jesus-resurrection.info/ which was started to share about the timing of Jesus’ resurrection (it was not on a Sunday) but also includes many other items of interest (well over 600 pages) There is also a quarterly newsletter available there highlighting current events that point to a soon Second Coming.
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