The Attributes of God, Final Session Q&A
This is the final session Q&A for The Attributes of God series. You can view all the videos with supplemental lesson summaries here.
This is the final session Q&A for The Attributes of God series. You can view all the videos with supplemental lesson summaries here.
God’s holiness refers to His uniqueness, His separateness. There is no one like Him. His sovereignty refers to His rightful authority and rule over all things.
The Bible tells us that “God is love” (1 John 4:16). When God loves, He is simply being Himself, and this goes for all His other attributes as well (such as His goodness and justice). Because God is eternal, His love has no beginning and no end. Because
Mercy and grace are two deeply rooted attributes of God’s nature that flow from His love.
The goodness and justice of God are two attributes that have important implications for us as Christians. What does it mean for God to be good or to be just? In the end, because God is perfectly good and perfectly just, we can trust Him and know that
God is higher than us and beyond our imagination; He is transcendent and holy. But He is also immanent, present to us as the sustainer of our very being every moment of our being.
Wisdom is the application of knowledge to achieve the best ends through the proper means. Because God is all good and has all knowledge and power, He can accomplish the best ends via the best means.
The Bible teaches us that God is omniscient and omnipotent. This means God knows all things and can do all that can be done. Because of these truths, we can be assured that His promises will come true.
God in His divine community perfectly portrays His attributes in harmony. The immutability of God is no different—who He is will never change.
Just as our attributes are above a dog’s comprehension, so God’s attributes are beyond our own—but on an infinite scale. The eternality and infinitude of God are two attributes of God that are beyond our understanding.
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