Christians: The bible says God's nature is unchanging. What does his nature consist of?

Answer 1

nothing testable or directly observable.

Answer 2

God's unchanging nature is revealed in His name:

Exodus 34:5
"And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of the LORD.
6) And the LORD passed by before him, and proclaimed, The LORD, The LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,
7) Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation."

Answer 3

A literal answer of this question is as impossible as answering literally the old zen koan, "What is the sound of one hand clapping?" One might attempt to answer it in some metaphorical way, but the point is moot. God is a fiction. Thus, the character, god, has no nature to consist of anything.

Answer 4

How can the bible say that? If God is spiritual, except when He is human as in the form of Jesus isn't that changing? Christians believe Jesus is God and if the bible says God is never changing then how can this be explained without saying Jesus is not God?

Answer 5

God's nature described in the Bible:

"Being then the children of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and thought of man." (Acts 17:29)

If you need to know anything about the nature of God, you can just look at the nature of Christ:

"If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; from now on you know Him, and have seen Him." (John 14:7)

Christ is God in the flesh:

"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation." (Colossians 1:15)

The Bible describes God as loving and forgiving:

"Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time; if we love one another, God abides in us, and His love is perfected in us." (I John 4:7-12)

We'll only know the true mysteries of God when He returns on the day of judgment.

Answer 6

God says "I am that I am" when Moses asks him pretty much the same question. What that means is one of the great mysteries of Christianity. Perhaps His nature is something like the urge to love and laugh, or that's the closest we can come to it with our limited human natures.

Answer 7

Primarily His holiness. God cannot be evil or tolerate evil in any form. God has been separated from men for 6,000 years because man in basically sinful.
God's Justice, truth, are extensions of His holiness.
God's wrath and judgments are extensions of His Justice and truth.
God's love comes from His nature but is subserviant to His Justice and holiness. In other words God's love and meercy cannot forgive without justice being met.

Answer 8

Crispy Critters?

Answer 9

Every character attribute that God has in the Bible.

God is Holy, Just, Loving, Compassionate, Merciful, Righteouss, etc etc.

Answer 10

The primary quality of his nature is that it is unchanging.

Answer 11

Holiness