True love, of course, is something you give and have for another. God created us in love, and it is through love that we come to know him. The Bible tells us that ‘God is love’ (1 John 4:8), not only that he has love for his creation, but that he is love love defines his eternal being. He is actually not far from each one of us, for “In him we live and move and have our being”’ (Acts 17:27). The Bible says he desires that all people ‘should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. Yet, despite being absolutely transcendent, he is also ‘everywhere present and filling all things’ although he is beyond human comprehension, he reveals himself to his creation. In the Liturgy, we confess God to be ‘ineffable, incomprehensible, invisible, inconceivable, ever existing, eternally the same’.
There can only be one such source, which is why belief in only one God is the bedrock of the Christian faith. God is not a part of the universe, nor is he the universe itself, nor does he exist alongside the universe, but all things continuously receive their being from God who is the source of all existence.
God, then, is the one infinite and eternal source of all that is, the source of existence itself. When the great prophet Moses asked this question, God replied to him: ‘I AM THAT I AM’ or ‘I am the existing one’ (אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה / ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ὤν).
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