The Holiness of God
“Only once in sacred Scripture is an attribute of God elevated to the third degree. Only once is a characteristic of God mentioned three times in succession. The Bible says that God is holy, holy, holy.” ⎯ R.C. Sproul Our God is holy, holy, holy. It is a threefold emphasis. An emphasis we do well to consider. So what does it mean that God is holy, holy, holy? That is a question I have been mulling around in my head and trying to understand after I asked it of a good friend. It’s an easy question to pass by and say, “Well, scripture says He is…” But if you think about it and delve into scripture for answers, you may have your mind blown at the awesome thought of how He is holy and what that means to us, His creatures. In addition to showing what it means that God is holy, I also want to tie God’s innate holiness into the incarnation of the Son. Because, through His Son, we are able to approach the holy God and we are able to have union with the Holy....