all things were created by him and for him. (Colossians 2:15-16).
Thus the beginning point of reference to God is whether or not he is the creator of the .
universe and all that dwells in them.
One of the fundamental issues that God wanted the Israelites to know was who He is. He wanted them to know that He was the only true God and from time to time Prayers were made to God of the Universe, God to whom belongs all the hills and valleys, the God whose foot stool is the earth itself "the Ultimate Being, the Supreme Being Jehovah "God. The Bible also says in Genesis that God Created all things and outside of him nothing was created. It continues in the second chapter the seventh verse and says that God, "breathed into his (man's) nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being. This is asserted unmistakably though in various ways in Africa. .
The reality of God is not something that can be questioned in Africa. God is real to Africans and that is why Africans call him by names, which are descriptive both of His nature and of his attributes. In the book Biblical Revelation and African Beliefs edited by Kwesi A Dickson and Paul Ellingworth a study of a few of the names is provided and it says, .
Orise is and ancient name for God used among the Owo people.
(of Yoruba land) and among the Itsekiri and Western Ijaw. This name .
by derivation falls into two parts "Ori and se. Ori is the essence of .
being and in the name of God in means the very Source of Being or .
Source Being. Se is a verb meaning to originate. Thus the whole name .
means the Source-Being, which gives origin to all beings, or Source of .
all beings . Among the Igbo the name Chukwu also falls in two .
parts "Chi and Ukwu. Chi is a very pregnant word. It carries the .
connotation of an overflowing fullness, the Main-source or Main-Essence .
of Being. Ukwu means great, immense; it has also the connotation of a .