God’s Attribute of Life
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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. An attribute of God is life.
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- God is living, in that he possesses within himself the source of all being and activity.
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- So, we get into the definition of what is life, theologically, in this way. Life is the mental or spiritual energy or activity of intelligence, emotion, and will or self -determination.
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- So, God is living in that he possesses within himself the source of all being and activity.
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- Now, when we look at science, they're going to argue that life means to be able to reproduce. That's not the case with God.
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- That's not the case when we use it theologically. It is the idea that God has within himself and possesses activity, that he can do things.
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- So, only God can give both physical and spiritual life.
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- Now, we see throughout the Bible that God is referred to as a living God, Jeremiah 10 .10.
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- You can look at Matthew 16 .16 and others, where he is called the living
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- God. And he is the source of life, that he can give both physical life, as he did with Adam and Eve, or brings people back from the dead, or spiritual life.
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- We live because he gave us life. And we have life.
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- We have and possess being and activity, but he is the ultimate source of that.
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