attributes of God are the qualities or characteristics of God. These attributes have been grouped in various ways to study and classify them. The classification that I like and most generally accepted is that which divides the Communicable and incommunicable attributes, but clarified that no perfect score. Communicable attributes being printed also those whom God in His creatures and those Incommunicable characterize the divinity, or those that only God has.
incommunicable attributes of God:
1. Self-sufficiency or independence.
God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything. Everything depends on God created. God does not need or rely on any creature. God is sufficient in itself:
"The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands, nor is he served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and all things. "Acts 17: 24-25
2. Immutability
This attribute is the guarantee of our salvation, because it tells us that God is unchangeable in his being, perfections, purposes, and promises.
"From the beginning you laid the earth and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but thou shalt endure; And they all shall wax old like a garment, like a clothing Thou wilt, and will be changed: but thou art the same, and your years will never end "Psalm 102: 25-27
" I the Lord do not change for you, O sons of Jacob are not consumed. "Malachi 3: 6
3.
Eternity Eternity of God or God's Infinity indicates that God has no beginning and end, or succession of moments in self, and therefore equally vivid is the time, but in the same way God sees events in time and acts in time.
time is a physical quantity which was subject to the creation by God, this does not affect God.
"Before the mountains were brought forth and formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God."
Psalm 90:2 "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and end" Revelation 1:8
"Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am." John 8: 58
4. God is omnipresent
unlimited with respect to space. God has no spatial dimensions or size and is present at all points of space with all his being, although it acts differently in different places. Space as a physical quantity affecting the Creator because the creatures were only subject to these rules by the will of the Creator.
"Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God far away? Does any hide himself in secret places that I do not see? Do not I fill, says the Lord, heaven and earth? "Jeremiah 23: 23-24
" Where do I go from Your Spirit? And where can I flee from your presence? If I ascend into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell , behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the end of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me, And thy right hand shall hold me. "Psalm 139: 7-10
" Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens, no you can hold "1 Kings 8:27
5-Omnipotence. Omnipotence is synonymous
Almighty. Some atheists making a show of great ignorance, barroom philosophy have attempted to show that God can not be omnipontente. For example Stephen Hopkins is credited with the authorship of one of these "demonstrations", he said God was not omnipontente because I was not able to make a rock big enough so then God himself could not be with her. Ridiculous attempt, really sorry that all that shows is our intellectual poverty and that our logic is counter to check it refer to any of the known paradoxes, such as Bertrand Russell called the Barber Paradox.
Without going too far to the Word of God speaks of things God can not do, for example he can not deny himself, this does not contradict his omnipotence because self-denial means ceasing to be God. Several texts
prove the omnipotence of God, here I quote one:
"And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and wonderful are your works, Lord God Almighty Just and true are Your ways, King of the saints. "Ap.15: 3
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