God (Christianity)

The sources present God as uncreated and eternal; Christian tradition recounts God's actions in history including self-revelation and covenant with Abraham and the people of Israel, the sending of the Son (Incarnation) and the Spirit. These covenantal and historical acts mark how God is known and worshiped in Christian doctrine rather than narrating a temporal origin for God (source 1; Background).

The provided materials do not give a physical description of God apart from the doctrine of the Incarnation, in which the second Person (the Son) assumed a hypostatically united human nature and became man (source 1). Classical sources therefore describe God with relational and ontological language (Father, Son, Holy Spirit) rather than as a consistent material appearance (source 1).

According to the sources, God creates and preserves all things, relates covenantally with humanity (beginning with Abraham), acts in history (including revelation recorded in scripture), sends the Holy Spirit, and is the focus of worship and moral transformation among believers. The Incarnation (God the Son assuming human nature) is described as a unique historical act in Christian doctrine (sources 1, 4, 5).