God is... Flashcards
Three things God is
Creator, Sovereign, and Judge
What does “Creator, Sovereign, and Judge” mean?
He made all reality as we know it. He sustains all reality as we know it. He relates to all reality as we know it.
What does heliocentric?
Heliocentric means “Sun centered.” It’s like theocentric - “Son centered)
What does Christ mean?
literally, “messiah.” It means “Annointed One.”
What does Jesus mean?
Literally “Yeshua.” It means, “God saves”
Jesus Christ means
Savior, the annointed One
What are God’s “attributes” called?
perfections
What are the overarching categories of God’s perfections?
holiness (state of being unique), self-sufficiency (God doesn’t need anything), infinitude (immeasurable)
Holiness
God as the “Wholy Other,” the basis and starting of all reality. Holiness is first ontological (philosophy of being) and second moral.
Sovereignty
God completely rules, alone
Infinitude
God is unmeasurable in all senses (time, size, knowledge, etc.)
Eternal
God is outside time. He is unmeasurable in or by time
Omnipotence
doing anything you want, whenever you want - without effort. God is power.
Omniscience
knowing everything
omnipresence
being present/conscious everywhere in reality
Immutable
does not change in essence, neither in any communicable, nor incommunicable way (we changed, not him)
impassible
cannot be affected. Not driven by people or emotions
Immense
immeasurable, spatially both materially and immaterially
perfect
as is reality - in ought, in being, and without any defect - the source
self-existent
relying only on self for being, remaining, and rights
love
affection as one with Life, Light, and Happiness
Personhood
God is a person, not an immaterial force. He is why we are persons.
Unity
That we worship one God in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity, neither confounding the persons, nor dividing the substance
good
God is the moral center, dependable, beneficial to all
mercy
God does not destroy, but holds account with Justice, but a justice including self-sacrifice - very akin to grace
Roles
there are distinctions of authority and action in the Threefold Godhead
Spirit
God is first beyond material, a spirit immeasurable
Singularity
God is One and not unknowable, simplistic and pure
Just
God bears and exacts righteousness on all creation
