II. Attributes of GOD Flashcards
1: Solitariness of God
- We believe that God is solitary in His majesty, unique in His excellency,
and peerless in His perfection.
He sustains all, but is Himself independent of all.
He gives to all but is sustained by none.
Isaiah 44:24
Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, and He who formed you from the womb: “I am the Lord, who makes all things, who stretches out the heavens alone, who spreads abroad the earth by myself.”
Revelation 1:8
“I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
2: Decrees of God
- We believe that the decrees of God
expresses His eternal fixed purposes or commands
and that He is the final issuer of authority.
It is His revealed will to mankind
in regards to our past, present, and future.
Psalm 33:11
The counsel of the Lord stands forever, The plans of His heart to all generations.
Ephesians 1:11
In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will.
3: Knowledge of God
3. We believe that God is omniscient and has all knowledge and wisdom. Nothing exists or occurs without God’s knowledge. He has perfect knowledge of the past, present, and future and His knowledge is complete.
Psalm 147:5
Great is our Lord, and mighty in power,
His understanding is infinite.
1Timothy 1:17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.
4: Foreknowledge of God
4. We believe that God established and planned everything from the beginning according to His will and purpose. Since He is the beginning and the end, He knows all and is all.
Romans 8:29
For whom He foreknew, He also predestined
to be conformed to the image of His Son,
that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
Acts 15:18
Known to God from eternity are all His works.
5: Supremacy of God
5. We believe that God is the source that all are ultimately dependent upon in the cosmos. Everything is subordinate to His power and rule over Heaven and Earth. Nothing can exceed His Lordship.
1Timothy 6:15-16 Which God will bring out in His own time- God, the blessed and only Ruler, the King of kings and Lord of lords, (16) who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light, whom no one has seen or can see. To Him be honor and might forever. Amen.
Ephesians 1:22-23 And God placed all things under his feet and appointed Him to be head over everything for the church, which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way.
6: Sovereignty of God
- We believe that God alone stands
outside of the control of anyone or anything
and He is the final authority of everything.
He is subject to none, influenced by none,
and He’s absolutely independent.
Nothing exists outside of His jurisdiction.
Jeremiah 23:24
Can anyone hide himself in secret places, So I shall not see him? Says the Lord; Do I not fill heaven and earth? says the Lord.
Isaiah 41:4
Who has performed and done it, Calling the generations from the beginning? I, the Lord, am the first; and with the last I am He.
7: Immutability of God
- We believe that God does not change.
He is consistently and perpetually the same.
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same
yesterday and today and forever.
8: Holiness of God
- We believe that God’s essential nature
is His purity and righteousness.
His holiness is a quality of character and action that is in harmony with God’s nature
and expressed will.
Leviticus 11:45 For I am the Lord who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
Luke 1:49
For He who is mighty
has done great things for me,
And holy is His name.
9: Power of God
- We believe that the Power of God
is His infinite, eternal and
incomprehensible omnipotence
that demonstrates His ability to bring to pass whatever He pleases.
Exodus 9:16
But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you,
and that My name may be declared
in all the earth.
1Corinthians 1:18 For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
10: Faithfulness of God
10. We believe that God is the supreme example of faithfulness. He can be trusted because He is completely trustworthy. God is constant, steady and true. God will never betray our confidence in Him.
1Thessalonians 5:24
He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.
Lamentations 3:22-23 Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; Great is Your faithfulness.
11: Goodness of God
- We believe that God is not only good,
He is goodness itself.
God’s nature is goodness.
His divine goodness is expressed in His relationship with all of mankind.
Psalm 145:8-9
The Lord is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy.
(9) The Lord is good to all, And His tender mercies are over all His works.
Matthew 19:17
So He said to him, “Why do you call me good? No one is good but One, that is, God.
But if you want to enter into life,
keep the commandments.”
12: Patience of God
12. We believe that God’s patience is His divine power of control that He exercises over Himself to refrain from punishing sinners. Thus, it is the act of God’s long suffering that keeps us from what we deserve.
Psalm 86:15
But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering and abundant
in mercy and truth.
Romans 15:5
Now may the God of patience and comfort
grant you to be like-minded toward one another, according to Christ Jesus.
13: Grace of God
- We believe that the grace of God is God’s free and spontaneous action taken to meet human needs especially in providing salvation and enabling the believer. It is God’s unmerited or unearned favor towards all mankind.
1Corinthians 1:4
I thank my God always concerning you for the grace of God which was given to you by Christ Jesus.
Acts 20:24
But none of these things move me; nor do I count my life dear to myself, so that I may finish my race with joy, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.
14: Mercy of God
- We believe that God’s mercy
denotes the ready inclination of God
to relieve the misery of fallen humanity.
Thus it is God’s act of being compassionate.
Romans 9:15-16 For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.” (16) So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
1Chronicles 16:34
Oh give thanks to the Lord,
for He is good!
For His mercy endures forever.
15: Love of God
15. We believe that love is the very nature of God. God is love. It is God’s constant commitment and deep care about the needs of the people and world He created. His love is immutable.
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
