The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple... More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.
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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 composite being is, by definition, a dependent being. It is dependent on at least t…
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The infinity of God is another of those attributes that has been forgotten or ignored by the modern church in an attempt to humanise Him. We often pay lip service to it, but fail to understand the theoretical and practical implications that follow from it. Much of the anaemia modern worship suffers from comes from a failure to meditate of the infinity of God.
Louis Berkhof describes God’s infinity …
O Lord, before there was, you were (Gen. 1:1). When there was nothing - no heaven or earth to engage your attention; no universe to be upheld by your power; no angels to sing your praises - you were alone: self contained, self sufficient, self satisfied, and in need of nothing, throughout a past eternity.[1]
And then you spoke (Heb. 11:3). You, who "worketh all things after the counsel of his own will" (Eph. 1:11). "Light", and it happened…
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We come now to the attribute of self-existence, where we confess that God is wholly and absolutely dependent on none for His existence. What we mean by this is that there is no reason outside of God Himself for Him to exist – His essence alone is the sole reason for His existence. Theologians used to call this attribute His aseity, coming from the Latin a se, or “from Himself”. This phrase…
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For those of us who have spent time reading theology, we are familiar with coming across particularly difficult passages in our books and having to sit back to take a breath. The more we read, the more we are made painfully aware that we are incapable of comprehending God in the entirety of His being. We grasp futilely for words to describe Him and to make sense of whatever He has said about …
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