{"id":16876,"date":"2025-05-15T15:52:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T06:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuchisoto.org\/en\/?post_type=lesson&#038;p=16876"},"modified":"2025-10-28T09:53:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T00:53:39","slug":"my-uchi-soto-lesson-2","status":"publish","type":"lesson","link":"https:\/\/myuchisoto.org\/en\/lesson\/my-uchi-soto-lesson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eternal God"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Opening Questions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What has been the best human relationship you know?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Was it perfect, or will it be perfect forever? If not, why not?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How do you feel about the kind of relationship described in the booklet as one that we all long for?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>To understand what the Bible says about God, we need to know that God is \u201ceternal\u201d. This is how the Old Testament of the Bible begins:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.<\/p>\n<cite>Genesis 1:1<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The expression \u201cthe heavens and the earth\u201d means \u201ceverything there is\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>When was this \u201cbeginning\u201d?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What or who was there<em> before<\/em> the \u201cbeginning\u201d?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bible tells us that the eternal God himself is (and always has been) the perfect relationship of <em>uchi<\/em> inner fellowship. And yet there is only one God. Check out these two verses from the New Testament of the Bible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>There is one God.<\/p>\n<cite>1 Timothy 2:5<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>God is love.<\/p>\n<cite>1 John 4:16<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How can God be both \u201cone\u201d and also \u201clove\u201d?&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What do you think <em>uchi<\/em> inner fellowship in this God might be like?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Bible says that God desires to share his love, not because he <em>has<\/em> to, but of his own free, overflowing goodness. In a letter in the New Testament of the Bible written to Christians by a man named Paul, it says:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.<\/p>\n<cite>2 Corinthians 13:14<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>In this Bible verse, three \u201cPersons\u201d are named. Who are they?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What is said to be the particular property of each Person here?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When the author (Paul) says, \u201cbe with you all\u201d, what do you think he means?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s impossible for us really to get our heads around an \u201ceternal\u201d God! But that doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s impossible to know God at all. According to the Bible, we human beings are made with an attunement to eternity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>He [God] has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man\u2019s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.<\/p>\n<cite>Ecclesiastes 3:11<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What can a human heart know about God?&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And what can we <em>not<\/em> know?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Concluding Questions<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Do you feel drawn towards eternity? Why, or why not?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How do you feel about experiencing the grace, love, and fellowship of the eternal God\u2019s <em>uchi<\/em> inner relationship?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:1.2rem\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myuchisoto.org\/en\/manga\/my-uchi-soto-lesson-2-manga\/\">View the Lesson 2 Manga<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:1.2rem\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>The ESV Bible<\/em>. 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