THE BEING OF GOD (3 of 6 notes)

Part Three
Theology Proper: 18 THE BIBLICAL VIEW OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

Spirit means that God has substance. It is inconceivable that there could be action without something acting. Our concept of substance is usually that of material substance, but there is also spiritual substance or reality. Spiritual substance, being invisible, cannot be visualized. Wind is invisible, and yet it is a substance. We can see and feel its effects, but we cannot see it, nor can we form a mental image of what it looks like. The Greek word for spirit is pneuma, which also means breath or wind. It is the word used in John 3:8: “The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is everyone that is born of the Spirit.” The wind consists of the movement of invisible material gas molecules. God, as Spirit, is invisible and immaterial, but He has substantial being. This substance or essence is that which underlies all of the outward manifestations of God.

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