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Line 1: − + − + − {{cquote|'''Genesis 1:1'''<br />In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.}}+ − {{trinity}}'''God''' is the sovereign creator and eternal ruler of all things and beings that exist, whether in the physical [[universe]] or in the spiritual realm ([[Heaven]]). Not only is God the creator and ruler of the things and beings within those two realms, but he is also the creator of the realms themselves. God created the physical universe, and before he acted in this creation, the universe did not exist. Likewise God did with the spiritual realm.+ + − == God is Revealed: How we know about God ==+ + + + + + − Other than creation itself, God is revealed in several ways, including conscience and special revelation (the bible, and prophets). Most importantly though, God is revealed in [[Jesus Christ]], who is the Son of God.+ + − + − The attributes of God are things that describe who he is. Similar to the way one might describe a close friend to another individual, so too do these attributes describe God's character and nature. Attributes of God include but are not limited to [[Wisdom]], [[Infinitude]], [[Sovereignty]], [[Holiness]], [[Trinity]], [[Omniscience]], [[Faithfulness]], [[Love]], [[Omnipotence]], [[Self-existence]], [[Self-sufficiency]], [[Justice]], [[Immutability]], [[Mercy]], [[Eternal]], [[Goodness]], [[Gracious]], and [[Omnipresence]]. These attributes all work in complete and perfect harmony with one another.+ + + + − God exercises eternal and righteous judgment of the wicked in [[hell]], because of an inherent problem in the human heart, namely [[Sin]]. According to the [[Bible]], the sacrifice of [[Jesus Christ]] on the cross of [[calvary]] and then [[resurrection]], is God's merciful and gracious response to the problem of the human heart.+ − === God is Triune ===+ − {{main|Trinity}} − Although the Bible does not use the term, it is clear that God is a triune God, or three in one.+ − These are sometimes referred to as ''God the Father'', ''God the Son'' ([[Jesus Christ|Jesus]]), and the ''[[Holy Spirit]]''. − The first hint of the Trinity is in {{Bible ref|Genesis|1|26}} which relates God saying, "Let us make man in our image", indicating that God is a plurality.+ + − The three persons of God are treated as equivalents in these words of Jesus shortly after His resurrection:+ − {{Bible quote|Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.|book=Matthew|chap=28|verses=19|version=NIV}} − ==== Jesus is God ====+ − The first verse of the [[Gospel of John]], in which Jesus is referred to as the "Word", makes clear that Jesus is synonymous with God: − {{Bible quote|In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.|book=John|chap=1|verses=1|version=NIV}} − This verse not only says that "the Word" (Jesus) is synonymous with God, but also says that the Word was "in the beginning", which means that He existed before all else existed, something that is only true of God. − This is reinforced two verses later, in which Jesus is described as the creator.+ − + − {{Bible quote|Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.|book=John|chap=1|verses=3|version=NIV}} − ==== The Holy Spirit is God ====+ − In the following passage, the [[Holy Spirit]] is referred to as God:+ − {{Bible quote|Then Peter said, "Ananias, how is it that Satan has so filled your heart that you have lied to the Holy Spirit and have kept for yourself some of the money you received for the land? Didn't it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn't the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied to men but to God."|book=Acts|chap=5|verses=3-4|version=NIV}}+ − === God is omniscient ===+ − {{main|omniscience}} − God knows everything:+ − {{Bible quote|This then is how we know that we belong to the truth, and how we set our hearts at rest in his presence whenever our hearts condemn us. For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.|book=1_John|chap=3|verses=19-20|version=NIV}}+ + + + + + − Because God is outside of [[time]], He can see and knows the [[past]] and the [[future]] as well as the present.+ + − + − [[Image:Velasco Padre Eterno.jpg|left|140px|God the Father]]+ − In the bible, the word "God" (θεός) does not always refer to God's being as a whole, but more specifically refers to the Person of the Father (God the Father). Here are some verses which demonstrate this: − {{cquote|'''John 3:16''' (NASB)<br />For <u>God</u> so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten <u>Son</u>, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.}} − {{cquote|'''1 John 4:10''' (NASB)<br />In this is love, not that we loved <u>God</u>, but that He loved us and sent <u>His Son</u> to be the propitiation for our sins.}} − Notice how in each case, "Father" can be substituted for "God." For example, "For the ''Father'' so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son," and "not that we loved the ''Father'', but that He loved us and sent His Son." − == Terminology ==+ + + + − The Bible uses several different words to refer to God.+ − "God" itself is not a name, but an [[Old English]] word meaning ''supreme being, diety'',<ref>[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=god God] Online Etymology Dictionary.</ref> which the translators who translated the Bible in to English chose as the appropriate English word for the [[Hebrew]] ''elohim'' and the [[Greek]] ''theos'' used in the [[Old Testament]] and [[New Testament]] respectively.<ref name="DPK">Kruse, Dale P.,[http://www.layevangelism.com/advtxbk/sections/sect-10/sec10-9.htm More on the ''Names'' of God In the Bible], Advanced Training Program of Evangelism.</ref>+ − The other main term for God is the Hebrew ''adonai'', usually translated ''Lord''.+ − There are various compound words also used in the Bible, such as ''el shaddai'', which means ''God Almighty'' ("''el''" is a short version of ''elohim'').<ref name="DPK" />+ + + − ''YHWH'' is given in the Bible as God's actual name. In most English Bibles it is translated as <span style="font-variant:small-caps">''Lord''</span>, in small capitals. The name has various other English versions, including Yehovah, Jehovah, and Yahweh.<ref>McHyde, Tim, [http://www.escapeallthesethings.com/yahweh.htm God’s Name: LORD, Yahweh, Yahveh, YHWH, YHVH, Jehovah or Yehovah?]</ref>+ + − ==See also==+ − + − + − + − + − {{Reflist|2}}+ − + − + − *[http://christiananswers.net/dictionary/god.html ChristianAnswers.net - God]+ − + − − + − + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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<small>''This article is about the biblical God. For the term as used to refer to any divine being, see [[Other Gods]]''</small>
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[[Image:Alphaomega.jpg|thumb|200px|God is the Alpha and Omega, the first and last, the beginning and the ending]]
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===Mission===
The mission of Sugar Labs<sup>®</sup> is to produce, distribute, and support the use of the [[What is Sugar?|Sugar learning platform]]; it is a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and developers to create, extend, teach, and learn with the Sugar learning platform.
Sugar is based on the following [[What is Sugar?|principles]]:
* everyone is a teacher and a learner;
* humans by their nature are social beings;
* humans by their nature are expressive;
* you learn through doing; and
* love is a better master than duty.
See this Community news post from [[Sugar Labs/Current Events/Archive/2009-03-17|10-Mar-2009, on ...our '''“Big Overarching Vision Goals for 2009”''']]...
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== Attributes or Character of God ==
== [[:Category:Team|Teams]] ==
Sugar Labs is organized around overlapping Teams. Please use the '''Community''' panel in the wiki sidebar to visit and explore the work and events for each team.
This [[:Category:Team | ''Team'' category page]] collects all Sugar Labs wiki pages with a ''Team'' tag.
== [[:Category:Project|Projects]] ==
Sugar Labs is working on a few [[:Category:Project|projects]] focused on delivering specific goals in a defined time period. The '''Projects''' panel in the wiki sidebar holds our premier projects. Please also see these project home pages:
| [[Sugar on a Stick]] |
| [[Gardner Pilot Academy]] | [[Shaw Elementary School]] | [[Math4Team |Math4 Project]] |
| [[Summer of Code]] |
== [[Local Labs]] ==
A local Sugar Lab adapts the technology and pedagogy to an area's culture and resources (''e.g.'', developing activities and content specific to a region); helps translate Sugar to the local language(s); supports Sugar deployments in area schools; creates a local community devoted to the Sugar Labs principles, making Sugar more open and sustainable; provides for communication, between the local communities and the global Sugar Labs community; develops Local content and software that can be used not only for local purposes but also for the overall community; hosts, co-hosts or partners in the organization of conferences, workshops, talks and meetings related to the use or development of Sugar.
Please visit these Local Labs:
| [http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Laboratorios_Azúcar_Colombia Sugar Labs Colombia] | [http://cl.sugarlabs.org/go/Página_Principal Sugar Labs Chile] | [[Sugar Labs DC]] | [http://pe.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar Labs Peru] | [http://ar.sugarlabs.org/ Sugar Labs Argentina] (coming soon)
==[[Sugar Labs/Current Events|Community News]]==
[[Genesis]] refers to God as being the Creator.
A [[Sugar Labs/Current Events|current events page]] updated each week (usually on Monday morning) with notes from the Sugar Labs community. (The Sugar Digest is also sent to the [http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/community-news community-news at lists.sugarlabs.org] list and blogged at [http://walterbender.org/ walterbender.org].) If you would like to contribute, please send email to [[User:walter|walter]] at sugarlabs.org by the weekend. (Also visit [http://planet.sugarlabs.org planet.sugarlabs.org].)
An '''[[Sugar Labs/Current Events/Archive|archive]]''' of Sugar Digests is available.
==[[Sugar Labs/Events | Events Calendar]]==
Sugar [[Sugar Labs/Events | community events]] are posted in a public calendar within the Google Calendar system. The calendar is available in a variety of formats: <span class="plainlinks"> [[Image:XML.gif|link=http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/6n9a99dr5knag9tp0obc0rncug%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic]] [[Image:ICal.gif|link=http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/h9cfuk10894em7a8moemquusmg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics]] [[Image:HTML.gif|link=http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=6n9a99dr5knag9tp0obc0rncug%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=America/New_York]].
Please contact [[User:Walter]] if you'd like to post an event to the calendar. Or simply post it below and it will be included.
==[[Sugar Labs/Roadmap|Roadmap]]==
The [[Sugar Labs/Roadmap|Sugar Community roadmap]] is used to guide our community efforts:
* Mission, Vision, Values
* Distribution
* Deployments
* Quality Assurance
* Infrastructure
== Sugar Labs: a learning and software-development community ==
The Sugar development platform is available under the open-source GNU General Public License (GPL) to anyone who wants to extend it. “Sugar Labs” is a member project of the [http://conservancy.softwarefreedom.org/ Software Freedom Conservancy] (a non-profit foundation to produce and distribute and support the use of free software) and serves as a support base and gathering place for the community of educators and software developers who want to extend the platform and who have been creating Sugar-compatible applications.
== "God" sometimes used to refer to God the Father ==
=== Education Goals ===
Sugar is useful only to the extent it is used by the learning community. Thus, Sugar Labs is working with educators around the world to focus on these learning challenges:
* To make Sugar and Sugar activities freely and readily available to learners everywhere
* To explore and share best practices
* To provide a forum for discussion and support for technology for learning
* To provide mechanism for evaluation and dissemination of results.
=== Technical Goals ===
Sugar supports the notions that learners should “share by default” and be able to “explore, express, debug, and critique.” Thus Sugar puts an emphasis on “activities” rather than “applications.” The foundation will focus on solving the challenges that are relevant to these aspects of the interface, namely:
* To make it “simple” to share Sugar activities. This will require an architecture that allows discovery of activities.
* To create versions of Sugar that run on multiple operating systems and on multiple hardware platforms. It should be “simple” to install Sugar everywhere. Specifically, it means packaging for every distribution and every virtual machine—removing hardware-related dependencies wherever possible.
* To make it “simple” to write Sugar activities. This necessitates stable APIs and example code that uses these APIs.
* To make Sugar activities even more secure. Our principal user community is comprised of children; they must be protected from malware, phishing, botnets, etc.
=== Community Goals ===
Sugar Labs is here to support community innovation, entrepreneurship, and enterprise. Sugar Labs would like to help community members start projects that help sustain and grow the Sugar technology and learning communities:
* To provide local and regional technical and pedagogical support.
*[[Other gods]]
* To create new learning activities and pedagogical practice.
*[[Atheism]]
* To provide localization and internationalization of software, content, and documentation.
*[[Christianity in Conservapedia]]
* To provide integration and customization services.
== References ==
=== Principles ===
In order for Sugar to be successful, it needs the participation of a large number of people who share common goals while maintaining independence, so that each participant has the ability to act independently. For these reasons, Sugar Labs subscribes to the principles described [http://flors.wordpress.com/2008/05/04/the-paradigm-of-the-open-organization/ here], which are the author's own translation of an [http://web.archive.org/web/20050317231119/http://interactors.coop/organizacionabierta original text in Spanish.]
==External links==
====Identity====
*[http://www.theopedia.com/God Theopedia - God]
* Clear mission – Fully disclosed objectives.
* Declared commitments – Affinities and aversions explained.
*[http://wikible.org/en/God Wikible.org - God]
* Declared outside connections – Relationships with other organizations explicitly listed.
*[http://www.opposingviews.com/questions/is-there-a-god Opposing Views: Is There a God?]
[[Category:Christianity]]
====Structure====
[[Category:Divine Beings]]
* Horizontal organization – Teams and facilitators work on responsibilities and agreements.
* Identified contributors – Who is who, people are reachable.
* Clear responsibilities – Who is in charge of what.
* Activities described – All of the ongoing work is acknowledged.
See [[Wiki_Team/Guide/Wiki_Structure | Wiki Structure]] for a guide to how the wiki models Sugar Labs' structure.
====Operation====
* Open participation – Anybody can access the information and get a first responsibility.
* Meritocracy – Responsibilities are acquired (or lost) based on one's skills, results, and contributors’ support.
* Voluntary (non-)engagement – Nobody is forced to be involved or to keep responsibilities.
====Information====
* Regular reports – Reported activities and future plans allow monitoring and participation.
* Information accessible – Even internal operational information is available by default.
*: We try to operate '''''[[Sugar_Labs/Current_Events/Archive/2009-06-10#En_plein_air|en plein air]]'''''.
* Explicit confidentiality – It is explained what matters are confidential, why, and who can access them.
====Goods====
* Economic model – Feasibility and sustainability plans are exposed. (Please see/contribute to the discussion [[Sugar Labs/Funding|here]].)
* Resources – Inventory of items detailing who contributed what and why.
* Public accounts – It’s clear where the money comes from and where it goes.
* A special [[Sugar Labs/Thank You|thanks]] to our contributors.
=== [[Sugar Labs/Governance|Governance]] ===
Informed by the above principles, Sugar Labs has a [[Sugar Labs/Governance|governance model]].
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