The Study of God | The Infinite God | Sermon #3
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- Mar 23
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Updated: Apr 20
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"By the way, these attributes, 'infinite', 'immortal', and 'immutable', are not “...qualities in him distinct from himself, but they are God himself. God's infinity is God Himself...these attributes...are each of them God himself.” (End Quote) Thomas Boston) The person of God, who is Spirit, is wisdom, goodness, mercy, grace, justice, holiness, etc...
Now, this is important. When we talk about God, we talk about His attributes separately. This is a way we can understand, to some degree, the person of God. However, as Thomas Boston points out, “Therefore God's attributes are God himself. Neither are these attributes separable from one another; for though we, through weakness, must think and speak of them separately, yet they are truly but the one infinite perfection of the divine nature, which cannot be separated therefrom, without denying that he is an infinitely perfect being.” (End Quote)
I know this may be a bit heavy this morning, but it is important to understand that God is other than us. We have a way of turning our thoughts about God into human pictures and concepts that do disservice to the One “who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see.”
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