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The sovereignty of God is usually the attribute most hotly contested amongst modern evangelicals today. It refers to His absolute dominion and freedom in relation to the world He created, to His absolute right to rule and reign over all of creation. This is seen in the whole of Scripture, beginning with Genesis 1:1: “In the b…
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Time was created. For time-bound creatures like us, this becomes an impossibility to wrap our minds around, for our language also remains time-bound. For instance, ‘in the beginning’ (Gen 1:1) indicates that God was before the beginning, but the word ‘before’ is time-based vocabulary. So we note that this a…
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After some time, we will notice that some of the attributes of God are confessed because they are necessary consequences of other attributes. For instance, simplicity is confessed because it follows from aseity. In this case and in the same way, impassibility is confessed because it follows from aseity and immutability.
Impass…
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Following closely the previous attributes, we are led to confess as well that God is immutable. The immutability of God means that God is absolutely unchanging, in His being, His mind, His purposes and His will – God is unable to undergo any kind of change, any kind of mutation.
Immutability is a necessary consequence of a…
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It seems strange that after establishing God to be incomprehensible, we go on to call Him simple.
In this context, when we say that God is simple, we do not mean that He is not complex, but that He is not composite. The reason we have to confess that God is not composite, is because He is independent. This is because every compo…
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