Episode 1 => Who Is He?
WORLDWIDE there are many gods worshiped. In the Shinto, the Buddist, the Hindu and the tribal religions there are millions of gods. Gods such as Zeus and Hermes were worshiped in the days of Jesus’ apostle. (Acts 14:11, 12) so the bible agrees that “there are many ‘gods,’ “ but it also says that “there is actually to us one God the father, out of whom all things are.” (1 Corinthians 8:5, 6) if you were asked, ‘who is this God?’ what would you say? He is the Lord,’ many answer. Or they may say: ‘He is a spirit in heaven.’ A dictionary calls God: “the Supreme Being.” When asked: ‘what is God’s name?’ some person answer, ‘Jesus.’ Others do not think of God as a person, but as a powerful force that is present everywhere there is a God. Can we be sure he exists?
EPISODE 2 => DOES GOD REALLY EXISTS
When you look at a beautiful building, have you ever wondered who the builder was? If someone told you that no one had built the building, but that it had simply come into existence by itself, would you believe it? Of course not! As a bible writer said: “every house is constructed by someone.” Everyone knows that. Well, then, can we not accept the logical conclusion of the bible writer. “He that constructed all things is God Hebrews”?— 3:4.
Consider the universe with its billions of billions of stars. Yet all of them in the heaven according to laws that keeps them in perfect in perfect relation to one another “Who has created these thing?” Was a question asked long ago. The answer given makes sense:”it is one who is bringing forth the army of them even by number, all of whom he calls by name” (Isaiah 40:26) Surely it would be foolish to think that billion of stars just made themselves, and, without any direction, formed the great star system that moves with such marvelous order!—Psalm 14:1.
This highly organized universe could not have just come about by itself. An intelligent creator with great power was needed. (psalm 19:1, 2). A business who was asked why he believe in God explained that in his factory it takes two days for a girl to learn how to put the 17 parts of a meat chopper together. “I am merely a plain manufacturer of cutlery,” he said. “But this I do know, that you can shake the 17 parts of a meat chopper around in a washtub for the next 17 billion years and you will never have a meat chopper.” This universe, including the many forms of life on earth, is so much more complicated than a meat chopper. If such a machine required a skilled maker, we can be certain that an almighty God is needed to create all things. Shouldn’t credit go to him for what he done?—Revelation 4:11; Acts 14:15-17; Acts 17:24-26.
Episode 3 => Is God a Real Person?
While most people say they believe in God, many do not think of him as a real person. Is he? Well, it can be seen that where there is intelligence there is mind. For example, we may say, ‘I cannot make up my mind.’ And we know that where there is a mind there is a brain in a body of definite shape. So, the great mind responsible for all creation belongs to the great person, Almighty God. Although he does not have a material body, he has a spiritual one. A spirit person has a body? Yes, the Bible says: “if there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one.”—Corinthians 15:44; John 4:24.
Since God is a person with spiritual body, he must have a place to live. The Bible tells us that the heavens are God’s “established place of dwelling.” (1 Kings 8:43). Also, we are told that “Christ entered . . . into heaven itself, now to appear before the person of God for us.” (Hebrews 9:24) some human will rewarded with life in the heaven with God, at which time they will receive spirit bodies. They will then see God, the Bible says, and also be like him. (1 John 3:2) this, too, shows that God is a person, and that he has a body. He is the Jehovah, the king of eternity.
Final Episode => How to Worship Jehovah
How we worship Jehovah is important. We should worship in the way that he says, even this may be different from the way we have been taught. For example, it has been the custom for some people to use images in their worship. They may say that they do not worship the image, but that seeing and touching it helps them worship God. Yet does God want us to worship him with the aid of images?
No, he does not. And for this very reason Moses told the Israelites that God never appear to them in any visible form. (Deuteronomy 4:15-19) in fact, one of the Ten Commandments says: “You shall not make yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything . . . you shall not bow to them or serve them.” (Exodus 20:4, 5, the Catholic Jerusalem Bible) Only Jehovah should be worshipped. Over and over again the Bible shows how wrong it is to make an image or to bow before it, or to worship anyone or anything except Jehovah.— Isaiah 44:14-20; 46:6, 7; Psalm 115:4-8.
As we might have expected, then, Jesus never used an images in worship. “God is a spirit,” he explained, “and those worshipping him must worship with spirit and truth.” (John 4:24) Acting in this harmony with this counsel, none of Jesus’ early followers used images as aids in worship. In fact, his apostle Paul wrote: “we are walking by faith, not by sight.” (2 Corinthians 5:7) and his apostle John warned: “Guard yourselves from idols.” (1 John 5:21) Why not look around your Home and ask yourself whether you are following this advice?—Deuteronomy 7:25.
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