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Part 1 - God's Puzzle Solved

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Who Is God?89meaning than just saying, “You’re a God” or even the moreemphatic, “You are The God.” You could use “Elohim,”which is plural or more than one, when speaking universally.This text is speaking about all of His Godliness. It isopposed to, “I alone as God am the existing one,” or whenhe says “El Shaddai, The Almighty One.” Those are titles,but YHWH (or JHVH) is His name. His name can neverapply to anything or any other being because God is TheOnly Existing One.Exodus 20:1-4 1 And God spoke all these words, saying,2I am the Lord your God, which have brought youout of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.3You shall have no other gods before me. 4 You shallnot make to you any graven image or any likeness ofany thing that is in heaven above or that is in the earthbeneath or that is in the water under the earth.Why does God tell you in The Second Commandment “notto make any images even of his likeness?”Images Of God?Think about the pictures depicting Christ, along with theidols, icons, statues or other images that you see representingGod or His Son. It is unbelievable. How couldanyone ever think of making an image of God? It is unthinkable.It is impossible.God instructs His people not to make images because itwould only be a lie. The Second Commandment is powerful– “You shall make no images of me.” It should notand cannot be done. When artists try to depict a like-

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