God’s Attributes and Evangelism by Vic Gill (MP3) Can a person evangelise if they don’t know what the God of the Bible is like? I believe the answer to this question is yes, you can evangelise without knowing the attributes of God. You can evangelise and witness to someone about God all day long without knowing [...]
Let’s face it: the word immutability is not in any danger of being overused. By that I mean that it is not a standard part of our vocabulary. It is, however, a very important aspect of Christian theology as it is one of the attributes of God. Taking these two facts into account, the first negative, and the second positive, it should be fairly obvious that before we can do anything else, we must define the word immutable.
Jealousy is spoken of in the scriptures in a positive light and a negative light. It is desirable because it is a communicable attribute of God, but it is also listed among the sins which believers are warned against. However, it is not possible for God to have a sinful attribute and God’s Word certainly doesn’t call sin something which is in God. Therefore, a study of jealousy in the Scriptures is necessary to make a clear distinction.
God’s patience and longsuffering is not like ours, it is not conditional, temporal or temperamental. It is in His build up, it is who He is. It is His essence and the very nature of God. He cannot be separate from it because He is the epitome of it.
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