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Who God Is: Meditations on the Character of Our God is unavailable, but you can change that!

Do you know who God is? What does it mean to say that God is love, light, life, and spirit? In Who God Is, world-renowned New Testament scholar Ben Witherington III explores the nature and character of the God of the Bible by focusing specifically on the nouns used to describe who God is. This rich exploration has its foundation in a deep reading of the biblical text. Reflecting on these...

as to say “God has in His Son made atonement for the sin of the world.” If the propitiatory death of Jesus is eliminated from the love of God, it might be unfair to say the love of God is robbed of all meaning, but it is certainly robbed of its apostolic meaning. It no longer has that meaning which goes deeper than sin, sorrow, and death, and which recreates life in the adoring joy, wonder, and purity of the first Epistle of St. John.7 Longtime New Testament professor Gerald Hawthorne named Philippians
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