As promised - Adam Clarke’s definition of God
As promised in yesterday’s message (Sun. June 2.2007) here is Adam Clarke’s (pictured on the left) definition.
“God is the eternal, independent, and self-existent being; the being whose purpose and actions spring from himself, without foreign motive or influence; he is absolute in dominion; the most pure, the most simple, the most spiritual of all essences; infinitely perfect; eternally self-sufficient, needing nothing that he has made; illimitable in his immensity, inconceivable in his mode of existence, and indescribable in his essence; known fully only by himself, because an infinite mind can only be fully comprehended by itself. In a word, a Being who, from his infinite wisdom, cannot err or be deceived, and from his infinite goodness, can do nothing but what is eternally just, and right, and kind.”
It will require work - but I highly recommend memorizing this definition, or at the very least taking some time to put it on a 3X5 card and regularly meditating on it. The even more industrious might consider looking at verses from which a definition like this might be derived. Parents… how about teaching our children a definition like this?