There's nothing about God's nature that can be found outside of Jesus. There's no representation of God more perfect and accurate than the person of Jesus.
The writer of the book of Hebrews tells us something very amazing....
"He reflects the brightness of God's glory and is the exact likeness of God's own being, sustaining the universe with his powerful word. After achieving forgiveness for the sins of all human beings, he sat down in heaven at the right side of God, the Supreme Power." [Hebrews 1:3 (GNT)]
Jesus, during His reign on the Earth, was the perfect imprint of the Father. God was manifesting His existence through Him. According to John's Gospel, when Jesus was asked by a disciple to show them the Father, He said...."𝑯𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓". This implies that Jesus was God's reflection to the world.
The world before walked with the inaccurate knowledge of God. It made people to create idols or moulden images and worship it. People lived in the blindness of God's true person.
However, then came our Lord Jesus. The Bible says in John 1:14..."𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒍𝒐𝒐𝒅, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅 (𝑬𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉), 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑾𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒈𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒚. 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓, 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑺𝒐𝒏; 𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒖𝒕, 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉". (MSG)
Look, whatever Jesus didn't do is what God cannot do. It's very much impossible to interpret God based on the Old testament prophets because they also didn't know Him accurately. Nevertheless, we see and hear God clearly through Jesus Christ.
In the scriptures, we see that Jesus was forgiving, merciful, full of Grace and Truth, loving, peaceful, content, gentle, selfless, tolerant, long suffering, joyful, humble, not found doing evil but always doing good. This is the nature of God.
My prayer for you is that after reading this, your understanding of the Father will become accurate. Hence, you will know how to relate with Him and what to profess about Him.
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