5. The Existence of Being God
The Bible does not argue or prove the existence of God, but it declares it (48). There are a number of arguments about the proofs of the existence of God: cosmological argument. These arguments are "useful in a negative sense but they will never lead to faith" (49).
The supreme end of studying the doctrines should be to know God himself; however, can He be known (50)? According to Matthew, "Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God" (Matthew 5:8). God is incomprehensible (Timothy 6:16; Romans 11:33; Isaiah 55:8-9); however, he is knowable. We have "partial knowledge of God": "but thought it is partial, it is nevertheless real; though it is not complete, it is a true knowledge, enough to lead us to glorify Him" (51). Moreover, the anthropomorphosis of God helps us to know something about him (52).
Martyn Lloyd Jones wants us to bear in mind the above-mentioned conception, so that we can start to examine what the Bible tells us about the essential nature of God's being. The essential nature of God's being is infinity, spirituality, personality, and also God is one unity. Lloyd Jones concludes: "the glorious truth we have been trying to look at together is just this, that this infinite, absolute, sublime, transcendent, glorious, majestic, mighty, everlasting being who is Spirit, who is truth, who dwells in light no one can approach, this God has been graciously pleased that you and I should know Him, that we should talk to Him and that we should worship Him. And He is prepared to listen to us, to meet us, and receive our unworthy and poor worship, and our praise and adoration" (56).
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