{"id":4009,"date":"2013-11-27T21:49:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-28T03:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/?page_id=4009"},"modified":"2013-11-27T21:49:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T03:49:35","slug":"2-perceptions-of-god","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/2-perceptions-of-god","title":{"rendered":"2. Perceptions of God"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The problem we have trusting God with all areas of our life is due to our perceptions of the character of God; particularly as they relate to places in our life (the secret places) that we are uncomfortable with God being involved with; even being aware of for that matter. If we knew God to be merciful, compassionate, kind, and yes, patient from a gracious heart of unconditional love, would we trust Him with everything, hiding nothing? But if we know God to be strict, judgmental, and punishing from a heart of disappointment, even anger, can we trust Him with everything, hiding nothing?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">NLX 101 examines the character of God covering these points:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">God Is Changeless<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">God Is All Powerful<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">God Is All Knowing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">God Is Everywhere<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">God Is Eternal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">God Is Holy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">God Is Righteous<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">God Is <\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Love<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">God is Truth<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">God Is Wisdom<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The lesson proceeds to explore with participants their perceptions of God, according to the characteristics of God. For example, &#8220;God is Changeless&#8221; might lead to the perception that God is rigid. &#8220;God is Righteous&#8221; might feed into the perception that God is judgmental. &#8220;God is Holy&#8221; might fuel someone feeling too unworthy to even approach God.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Questions are asked in the lesson to challenge folks to reconsider how they see God, and how past experiences might distort one&#8217;s perceptions of God. The purpose is to promote the belief that negative perceptions of God are in fact a distortion from the loving personality of God illustrated by what He has done for the participant that sheds a far more accurate light on His character. <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"twttr_buttons\"><div class=\"twttr_twitter\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?text=2.+Perceptions+of+God\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-via=\"\" data-hashtags=\"\"  data-size=\"default\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/2-perceptions-of-god\"  data-related=\"\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The problem we have trusting God with all areas of our life is due to our perceptions of the character of God; particularly as they relate to places in our life (the secret places) that we are uncomfortable with God &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/2-perceptions-of-god\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4009","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4010,"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4009\/revisions\/4010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.freedomfrommedom.com\/member\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}