[biblewonk]

What makes you say that is His number one trait?

There is a verse that says God is love but not one that says God is holiness.

[Alex Murphy]

There is a verse that says God is love but not one that says God is holiness.

Depends on whether you're reading it as a verb or a noun.

Leviticus 11:44, cited in 1 Peter 1:16:
"You shall be holy, for I am holy"

[Gamecock]

****What makes you say that is His number one trait?
There is a verse that says God is love but not one that says God is holiness.***


How does the Bible put emphasis on a concept or thought? By repeating the concept three times.


Where is love repeated three times in one phrase? It isn't. As a matter of fact none of God's attributes are described in this manner.

So, which attribute is repeated three times? Holy:

Isaiah 6:3 And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”

Revelation 4:8 And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”


That's why I say Holiness is God's number one attribute.

[Dr Warmoose]

There is a verse that says God is love, but not one that says God is holiness.

Isa 6:3 And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

Rev 4:8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

When one would repeat a word such as "Verily, Verily" it was meant to express great emphasis and importance by the speaker and the certainty that it affirms. So when the angels say "Holy, Holy, Holy" it describes God's Primary attribute of holiness.

[drstevej]

***There is a verse that says God is love but not one that says God is holiness***

WONKSTER...

1 JOHN 1:5
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

The context shows "light" to be a metaphor for moral holiness.