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- As we begin to look at the attributes of God, we first have to ask the question, what in the world is an attribute, really?
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- Well attributes are some distinguishing characteristic or quality that describes the nature or being or essence, in this case, of God.
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- So when it's in relation to God, these attributes are those distinguishing characteristics or qualities of the divine nature, which are inseparable from the idea of who
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- God is. This is why it affects the way we view theology, because we cannot separate these attributes from who
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- God is, therefore this is a description of God. And therefore when we study theology, the study of God, all of it is going to come from an understanding of his attributes.
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- His attributes will work in proper thinking with proper theology.
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- These attributes were not caused nor affected by the works of God, such as creation, in any way.
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- And so what we see about these attributes is that an attribute does not grow, it does not change, it is part of the nature of God himself.
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- It is how God reveals himself to us. It's not the sum total of all that God is, but those which he has revealed to us, those that we can understand, tell us much about God and what we can learn from him.
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- So the more we study the attributes of God, the more we have a better understanding of who
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- God is and what it is he wants us to know. This podcast is part of the
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- Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.
