Communicable Attributes Flashcards
God’s love
means that God eternally gives Himself to others.
God’s mercy
means God’s goodness toward those in misery and distress
God’s grace
means God’s goodness toward those who deserve only punishment
God’s patience
means God’s goodness in withholding of punishment toward those who sin over a period of time
God’s holiness
means that he is separated from sin and devoted to seeking his own honor.
God’s peace (or order)
means that in God’s being and in his actions he is separate from all confusion and disorder, yet he is continually active in innumerable well-ordered, fully controlled, simultaneous actions.
God’s righteousness, justice
means that God always acts in accordance with what is right and is himself the final standard of what is right.
God’s jealousy
means that God continually seeks to protect his own honor.
God’s wrath
means that he intensely hates all sin.
God’s spirituality
means that God exists as a being that is not made of any matter, has no parts or dimensions, is unable to be perceived by our bodily senses, and is more excellent than any other kind of existence.
God’s invisibility
mean that God’s total essence, all of his spiritual being, will never be able to be seen by us, yet God still shows himself to us through visible, created beings.
God’s knowledge (omniscience)
means that God fully knows himself and all things actual and possible in one simple and eternal act.
God’s wisdom
menas that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals.
God’s truthfulness (and faithfulness)
means that he is the true God, and that all his knowledge and words are both true and the final standard of truth.
God’s goodness
means that God is the final standard of good, and that all that God is and does is worthy of approval.
