Tozer Definitions

Question 1

What is an attribute?

Answer 1

Simply whatever may be correctly ascribed to God. An attribute of God is whatever God has in any way revealed as being true of Himself.

Question 2

What is an attribute in relation to God?

Answer 2

It is not a part of God. It is how God is.

Question 3

What is the Holy Trinity?

Answer 3

Father, Son, Holy Spirit. It is truth for the heart.

Question 4

Does the Trinity correspond with itself like humans do?

Answer 4

No

Question 5

Does the Trinity have one will?

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

What is the self-existence of God?

Answer 6

The concept that “God has no origin” which distinguishes That-which-is-God from whatever is not God.

Question 7

What are our problems and solutions?

Answer 7

Because we are God’s handiwork they are innately theological?

Question 8

What is the basic tenet of Christian faith and devotion?

Answer 8

That God is everything and man is nothing.

Question 9

Why is man a sinner?

Answer 9

He challenges God’s selfhood in relation to his own.

Question 10

What is the self-sufficiency of God?

Answer 10

Whatever God is, and all that God is, He is in Himself. “The Father hath life in himself.”

Question 11

What is the Eternity of God?

Answer 11

It is God’s everlasting nature. “From the vanishing poin to the vanishing point” is the way it is from the human perspective. God has no past nor future.

Question 12

What is God’s Infinitude?

Answer 12

It is his limitlessness that means He has no bounds.

Question 13

What is God’s Immutability?

Answer 13

It is God’s inability to change for better or worse. It stems from His Holiness.

Question 14

What is God’s Omniscience?

Answer 14

It is His perfect knowledge and inability to learn more. Receiving more knowledge would signify imperfection.

Question 15

What is God’s Wisdom?

Answer 15

The fact that God possesses infinite understanding and is wise in Himself. He devises the perfect ends through the perfect means.

Question 16

What is God’s Omnipotence?

Answer 16

It is His infinite power and sovereignty. It means that nothing is impossible for God (except for things that go against his nature (aka sin etc)).

Question 17

What is God’s Transcendance?

Answer 17

God is spirit, and to Him magnitude and distance have no meaning. He sees all of time before him and past the bounds of time.

Question 18

What is God’s Omniprescence?

Answer 18

Simply that God is, and God is here. He is able to go anywhere and assume any form. Physical limitations do not bind Him.

Question 19

What is God’s Faithfulness?

Answer 19

All of God’s acts are consistent with all of His attributes.

Question 20

What is God’s Goodness?

Answer 20

That which disposes Him to be kind, cordial, benevolent, and full of good will toward men.

Question 21

What is God’s Justice?

Answer 21

His perfect moral equity in upholding his laws and will. His righteousness also is nearly indistinguishable from his Justice.

Question 22

What is God’s Mercy?

Answer 22

It is His freely given forgiveness of all wrongs committed in a benevolent and joyful passion for those who love him.

Question 23

What is God’s Grace?

Answer 23

The good nature of God to bestow benefits upon the undeserving.

Question 24

What is God’s Love?

Answer 24

To clarify it is not Him. But it is an important attribute that is: His infinite, unending, passionate love for everyone who believes in Him.

Question 25

What is God’s Holiness?

Answer 25

It is the standard that all other living things must try and meet. It is the state the universe hopes to achieve. It is the WAY God is. But it once again is not who He IS. Because it is an attribute.

Question 26

What is God’s Sovereignty?

Answer 26

It is the unqualified freedom God possesses to do everything his perfect nature allows. God’s allowance of Evil is part of what makes up his sovereignty. But his righteous acts are also part of his sovereignty.