The Bible teaches that God is a different type of being compared to human beings. God, as the Creator of both the universe and humanity, exists beyond human nature—he is not human Himself. He’s unique. This is why in Exodus 3:14, God introduces himself to a man named Moses by saying, “I Am who I Am.” God describes himself as “I Am” because referring to himself is the only possible way for God to describe what he is like. Nothing else can describe him but himself. According to the Bible, God is so vastly different from us that we cannot begin to truly understand him unless he chooses to reveal his nature to us. For starters, he’s all-knowing and all-powerful.

We’ve just spoken about how sin completely divides us and God in the previous chapter, but since the gospel means good news, the next few pages will explain how God has made a plan to remove the sin that divides us and him and restore humans back into relationship with himself.

Although because God is different from us, forming a positive relationship with God is different to relationships between humans. Since the gospel is a message about forming relationship with God, we should expect it to be a complex message of ‘relationship restoration’ because God is God—he operates in ways we don’t easily understand.