No one can give the Bible a serious read without coming away with the realization that God really is holy. But we use the word "holy" so often that perhaps we do not always have a clear idea in our minds of what that means.

We can think of the holiness of God in two fundamental categories: essential holiness and moral holiness. The definition of the word "holy" can mean "separate." God is so separate that He is solitary. When we think about all things that exist, there is God and that which is not God. In the second group we have mud, grass, trees, stars, people, and angels. In the first group, we have only God. He is solitary in His perfection. As the uncreated God, He is not like any other thing. He is the uncaused Cause.

No one could give the Bible a serious read without coming away with the realization that God really is holy. But we use the word holy so often that perhaps we don't always have a clear idea in our mind and maybe We have a good grasp of part of the definition, but not the whole definition, and I think the whole definition helps. We can think of the holiness of God in two fundamental categories. God is essentially holy, and God is morally holy. So let's think of the definition of the word, and then those two categories.

The definition of the word holy could simply be stated as separate, that God is separate. In fact, He is the most separate. God is so separate that He is solitary. When we think of all things that exist, we have two categories, God and that which is not God and in that which is not God we have mud you know and we have grass and trees and stars and people and angels And in the category that is God, we have only God, He is solitary in His perfection, unlike anyone else in a category all to Himself. God is essentially, fundamentally separate.

As the uncreated God, He is not like any other thing. He is not next to any other thing. He is wholly other, the uncreated creator, the uncaused cause. Thanks for watching!