What does it mean when God is referred to as the Rock?

Question

Isaiah 26:4 -- Trust in the Lord forever, for the Lord, the Lord, is the Rock eternal.

(Please, I'm only looking for answers from Christians. No need to tell me that God doesn't exist. Thank you!)

Answer 1

because he's cookin something  

Answer 2

“Jah Jehovah” is the only reliable Rock of security. Those having full confidence in Jehovah receive his protection and enjoy “continuous peace.”—Proverbs 3:5, 6; Philippians 4:6, 7.

Answer 3

He is the rock because he's solid and lasts a long time.  Plus, he gets eroded if there is too much ice and water.

Answer 4

Because like crack he provides his addicts a high that they use to get through their lives marginalized by the notion that without their god there would be no other point to living.

Answer 5

He's our foundation.  When the storms rage and the waters rise, our house stands solid on the rock of our salvation.

"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. 25The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. 26But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. 27The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."

~ Matthew 7:24-27

Answer 6

As man is said to have been created from the dust of the earth, among it strongest elements  within is the rock. Rock normally is the foundation of any structure people wanted to build in the time of Isaiah. now that rock is being replaced by concrete.

Answer 7

He was actually a WWE wrestler

Answer 8

Strong, unmoving, unwavering, a sturdy foundation on which to build something.  Things like that.

Answer 9

Solid, for sure, can depend on Him.

Answer 10

I think it means that he will layeth the smacketh down on your candy ***.  

Answer 11

God is the foundation. God's rules become our own, and our foundation would be God. Trusting in the Lord and being compared to a rock must mean that this foundation is solid.

Answer 12

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Answer 13

He was a phony WWF wrestler in a previous life

Answer 14

Jesus is unchanging. He is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.

Any building made must be placed on a firm foundation- a rock, or down to the bedrock, lest it fall.

The storms will come and difficulties will beset us all whether we live by the words of Christ or not; the difference is that by building our lives on the foundation of the words of Christ, we will be able to withstand the floods of distress when they come.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but the words of Jesus Christ will never pass away.

This is why Jesus is called the rock of ages.

God has laid a foundation in Zion, a sure foundation; a foundation on which, if we build our lives we will be able to withstand all the onslaughts of the powers of evil.

Jesus Christ is that sure foundation that God has laid in Zion.

It is Jesus- the only Rock that will not fail. NOT Peter.  Only biblical basis is God is the rock.

Moses was given "waters to live" by from rock in the desert. God provided it- Jesus is the "living waters"

1 Corinthians 10:4 where it says that the Israelites ‘drank the same spiritual drink; for they drank from the spiritual rock that accompanied them, and that rock was Christ.’

1Cr 3:11   For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

Jesus is the foundation, the only foundation.

Answer 15

rock for me means solid...

Answer 16

Means nothing can touch him he is all eternal and always will be. And he will always be there when he is needed!