In my husband’s weekly Bible study class, we’ve been studying the attributes of God, and I thought today I would share some of that information with my readers. So far, we’ve gotten through what are considered the incommunicable attributes of God. Incommunicable means that these are qualities belonging to God alone, and they cannot be used in relation to human beings at all.
The first attribute is simplicity or unity. This means that all of the qualities of God are present all the time. He is merciful, just, holy, wrathful and more all the time and all at once.
The next attribute is self existence. God was not created,
The third attribute is immutability. God does not change. Although there are times in the Bible when God seems to change His mind, this is really for the benefit of humans — God already knows and has decided what will happen.
The fourth attribute is impassibility. God does not suffer or experience emotional changes. Again, when the Bible says God is grieved, this is really an attempt to explain things in a way humans can understand — it is not a statement about the nature of God.
The fifth attribute is omnipresence. God is everywhere all the time.
Finally, God is eternal. He was not created (see attribute #1) so He has no beginning and no end. God does not exist with time — He is outside of time.
It’s hard to wrap your mind around these qualities, isn’t it? That’s because God is God, and we are not. Later on I’ll post about the communicable attributes of God, which are easier to understand because there is some human equivalent.
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