The Divine Attributes

Holy, holy, holy,

Lord God almight,

Who was and is

And is to come! 

You are worthy, O Lord,

to receive glory and honor

and power

for you created

all things,

and by Your will

they exist and

were created.

Revelation 4:8b,11

     It has been revealed to us as to God's essence, the fact that His infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, through our constitution and His Word. Those elements of God are called attributes and are essential to His Being and of course are necessary to our idea of God. To God is predicated those attributes in the concrete and are not abstract ideas. They, the attributes, indicate His relationship to His creatures, as the creator, preserver, ruler, etc. We know from the peculiarities that distinguish His characteristics as of the Persons of the Trinity. There are certain peculiarities that belong to the Father, those that belong to the Son, and those that are of the Holy Spirit. There are such things that are non-essential in as much that these qualities may or may not belong to a substance. They can be acquired or lost. The early created being, Adam holiness was not an attribute of his nature because he might lose it and still remain a man, but his intelligence was not something we would call an accident for it is and was an attribute. The attribute of intelligence involves his humanity, to lose it would then mean the loss of his humanity. This is not true of God, for being holy, and this is one of the perfections of God, and are of His attributes, that which He cannot lose for if He did lose that attribute He would cease to be God. 

     I am purposely keeping this blog short and allowing time for the reader to consider these things as the next blog will go deeper into the relationship of those attributes of God. Our faith in God is so construed that we know that He exists and we know something of His attributes but to delve into those areas whereby our faith grows and deepens then it is necessary to explain these attributes in relation the the Essence of God.

I know that You

     can do everything

and that no purpose

     of Yours 

can be withheld 

     from You

             Job 42:2

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Richard L. Crumb