What Does It Mean To Say That God Is Good

God is omnipotent, He is almighty, He is loving, and He is incomprehensible. In Seven days, out of nothing, God created the earth and the heavens. He created the sun and moon, the oceans and rivers, the fish and the birds, and only created one thing in his likeness. That one thing God created in his image is known as humankind. He gave them power over all the animals and gifted them plants that bear seeds for endless amounts of food. God created the Earth one entity at a time, and after each entity was created He looked at it, and said that what he had created was good. Everything that God had created was good.

God in the beginning of Genesis is a very caring and thoughtful God; He is rational and orderly. He creates the world one step at

God is responsible for man’s wellbeing, and wants him to have a companion, therefore he created a woman from his rib. Although everything was made to be good, soon came the bad. When Adam and Eve committed the first sin by eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil, a new side of God emerged. This God was a harsh and punishing God; “To the woman he said, ‘I will greatly increase your pangs in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you’” (Genesis 3:16). Yet he is still merciful, for although Adam and Eve had sinned, the Lord God still made them garments to cloth them. God is also depicted as harsh yet merciful when Cain kills Abel. God banishes Cain from the land, but puts a mark over Cain so that no one may murder him. Late in Genesis when God sees

in Genesis, God makes a covenant with Abraham saying “To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates, the land of the Kenites, the Kenizzites, the Kadmonites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites” (Genesis 15:17-21). When Abraham was ninety-nine years old God came to him again and said “I will establish my covenant between me and you, and your offspring after you throughout their generations, for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you. And I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding; and I will be their God” (Genesis 17:7-8). The sign of God’s covenant was that all males of the household will be circumcised. Every generation of males descended from Abraham will be circumcised when he turns eight days old. The males that go uncircumcised will be cut off from his people because he has broken the covenant with God. That same day Abraham went back to his home and circumcised himself, his son Ishmael, and all of his slaves. Because Abraham listened to God by following God’s covenant, Abraham was given a child bore by his wife Sara. God commanded that they named Isaac and that he be circumcised on the eighth