God’s Attribute of Self-Consciousness
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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. God is self -conscious.
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- Now when we look at the first of the attributes in the realm of personality, the first three that we described deal with God's personality as a whole, where the following three describe
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- His makeup of His personality. Now God is self -conscious, in other words, God is aware of His own existence.
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- He knows Himself completely because of the other attributes we've already seen. Therefore God can't deceive
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- Himself, something we can do. But self -consciousness is the capability of awareness of self.
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- It manifests in the ability of abstraction and reflection in forming concepts.
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- God is aware of His own existence. He knows Himself perfectly and completely in totality.
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- The self -consciousness of man is what separates man from animals.
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- However, unlike God, man can be self -deceived and does not know himself perfectly or completely.
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- So when God describes Himself to man, He does so without deception.
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- He does it knowingly. We may not be able to fully comprehend everything He reveals about Himself, but what
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- He reveals is without deception. When we are conscious, we can deceive ourselves, but we are not like animals.
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- Animals cannot reflect on their own existence, where man can.
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