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THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD. Questions that cannot be ADEQUATELY answered without this lesson: Who caused God to be there? How old is God ? Where is God? When did He start to be there? What is God really like? This lesson briefly answers such QUESTIONS . What is an attribute?.
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THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD Questions that cannot be ADEQUATELY answered without this lesson: Who caused God to be there? How old is God ? Where is God? When did He start to be there? What is God really like? This lesson briefly answers such QUESTIONS.
What is an attribute? An attribute is a quality by which something is. e.g. , Darkness is an attribute of NIGHT. WHAT ARE THE (10) ATTRIBUTES OF GOD? 1. DIVINITY ( not made of chemicals, material, or flesh. He is a Spirit Being). John 4: 24, 1:18 2. ETERNITY ( He has no beginning & His existence never ends) Psalm 90:2, Revelation 1:8
Attributes of God… 3. IMMUTABILITY (He is unchanging in his nature of being. Totally reliable & trustworthy) Malachi 3:6, Numbers 23:19 4. JUST ( acts without favoritism) Psalm 18:30, Deuteronomy 32:4 5. OMNIPOTENCE ( all-powerful. Nothing in the universe is NOT within His reach. The word IMPOSSIBLE does not exist in His vocabulary) Jeremiah 32:17, 27, Revelation 19:6
Continued – Attributes of the ONE true GOD 6. SOVEREIGNITY ( Nothing can thwart his purposes. He is ABOVE all things) Psalm 95:3 7. OMNIPRESENCE ( God is in ALL places at the same time. He is everywhere present) Jeremiah 23:23-24, Psalm 139:7-13 8. HOLINESS ( He is a BEING separated from ALL moral defilement and is hostile to evil) Isaiah 6:3, Leviticus 19:2, Matt. 5:48
Attributes of the Divine Being … 9. OMNISCIENCE ( He has unlimited knowledge) Psalm 139: 1-4, 1 John 3:20 10. TRANSCENDENCY ( He is exceedingly far above ALL creation. God is GREATER than the universe and is INDEPENDENT of it) Jeremiah 32:27 Conclusion: (1) God is a self-existing, uncaused, invisible, holy and omnipresent DIVINE BEING! (2) Do you think you can SIN and HIDE from such a Supernatural Being ??