Steve Bezner on Who God is, and how do we know?
Steve Bezner has served on staff at Kaufman’s First Baptist Church, a growing and thriving rural congregation, since 2000. This Summer he and his family will be planting a new church in Fort Worth. Steve holds degrees from Hardin-Simmons University (BA, MA) and Baylor University (PhD).
Robert Jenson has aptly stated, “To the question ‘Who is God?’ the New Testament has one new descriptively identifying answer: ‘Whoever raised Jesus from the dead.’” An answer like this is appropriately frustrating in both its simultaneous specificity and ambiguity. On the ambiguous side, we are left asking, “But what or who IS this person known as God?” With regard to specificity, we confirm that God’s being is directly related to the person of Jesus Christ. The conclusion is a both/and. On the one hand, God is ultimately incomprehensible; on the other hand, God is available for encounter through Jesus.Perhaps, then, I would pose an answer to your question in light of your second question: “How do we know?” We know who God is through the person of Jesus Christ as revealed in the Gospel accounts of the New Testament. This is the most complete revelation of God that has been given, and in my approach to God, I must filter what I believe about God through the lens of what I know about Jesus. To put it more simply: some vague notion of ‘God’ cannot color my perception of Jesus; my knowledge of who Jesus is must shape my belief and perception of God. To be sure, the Scriptural accounts of the Bible and the vast tradition of the church inform that position, but, ultimately, the most complete way that one my know God is by understanding that God is made manifest and incarnate in Jesus Christ.
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