The incommunicable attributes of God
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I. Eternity
I. Eternity
A. God is eternal.
A. God is eternal.
When we say this, we mean that God is not it time as we are, but rather time is in God.
Before the mountains were brought forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
“Behold, God is great, and we do not know Him; Nor can the number of His years be discovered.
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
In the beginning God. this i snot a reference to God’s beginning but rather humanities.
God is not apart from time, but not bound to time. He works within time as He sees fit.
Physics tell us that matter, time, and space must all coexists. If there is no matter than there can be no time or space. and likewise for all three. they must coexist together.
Therefore, there must be a creator than set all three into existence, simultaneously.
Thus, when God created the universe, He also created time. He also created space to place His creation.
B. God sees all time.
B. God sees all time.
God does not view the world through the lens of time as we do. No, He sees past and future as clearly as the present.
For a thousand years in Your sight Are like yesterday when it is past, And like a watch in the night.
But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me,
Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,’
Yet, God works within time.
But when the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
to redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons.
Thus, God has no succession of moments in His own being and sees all history equally vividly, and in HIs creation he sees the progress of events over time. Wayne Grudem
II. Independence
II. Independence
God is independent of man and does not need us for His existence.
God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.
Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things.
Who has preceded Me, that I should pay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.
Our very existence is not needed by God. He did not create humanity our of boredom or loneliness.
We have significance because He has decreed it to be so. Rev 4.11
“You are worthy, O Lord, To receive glory and honor and power; For You created all things, And by Your will they exist and were created.”
Everyone who is called by My name, Whom I have created for My glory; I have formed him, yes, I have made him.”
III. Immensity (Omnipresence)
III. Immensity (Omnipresence)
By this I mean that God is not and cannot be confined by space.
Just as God exists apart from time. God does not exist in space, but rather, space exists in God.
Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?
If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
If I take the wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
Even there Your hand shall lead me, And Your right hand shall hold me.