Exodus 3:14-15
I AM WHO I AM
14 God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”
15 God also said to Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is my name forever, the name by which I am to be remembered from generation to generation.
Revelation 1:8
God is Almighty
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”
Hebrews 13:8
God Remains the Same Forever
8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
How we see God is up to each of us...And how each of us see God is a little bit or quite a bit, very different...God calls Himself I AM or I AM WHO I AM...God is Self-Sufficient and is the Source of All Things...Seeing One who is Infinite and Eternal, and Both the Beginning and the End, the Alpha and the Omega, is difficult...One who never changes...God is Very Complex -and that is quite an understatement...
The atheist Richard Dawkins said, “The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”...
Philosopher and believer Criss Jami writes, “Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is good...It is the first telling that God is indeed God, by sheer definition, and not some ear-tickling fairy by which one in his depravity is guaranteed to find another form of stale romanticism or love at first sight...For such a first impression as the latter would be problematic to the essence of Christianity...Therefore the Christians are right in saying that the nature of imperfect men cannot ultimately co-exist with the nature of a perfect God; and that the hope of each man is now desperately found in God's sending of Christ.”...