Last week we began this series of attributes of God that are “communicable”. We have divided God’s “communicable” attributes into five major categories: God’s being attributes (Part 1) Spirituality definition: God’s spirituality means that God exists as a being that is not made of any matter, has no parts or dimensions, is unable to be …
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How is God like us? Part 1
During these next few weeks we will discuss the attributes of God that are “communicable,” or more shared with us than those attributes mentioned in the last five messages. We must remember that this division into “incommunicable” (belong to God alone), and “communicable” (can be shared by humans) is not an absolute division and there …
How is God Different from us? Part 5 of 5
This will be the 5th message discussing how God is different from us. Here again are the previous 4 attributes: The first attribute was God’s independence. This was defined as: God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glory him and bring him …
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How is God different from us? Part 4
A few weeks ago we began discussing how God is different from us. Here again are the previous 3 attributes: The first attribute was God’s independence. This was defined as: God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glory him and bring him …
How is God different from us? Part 3
Two weeks ago we began discussing how God is different from us. This first attribute was God’s independence. This was defined as: God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glory him and bring him joy. The second attribute is God’s unchangeableness. We …
How is God different from us? Part 2
Last week we began discussing how God is different from us. This first attribute was God’s independence. This was defined as: God does not need us or the rest of creation for anything, yet we and the rest of creation can glory him and bring him joy. The second attribute is God’s unchangeableness. We can …
How is God different from us?
Introduction and explanation of God’s character: Classifying God’s attributes. When we come to the talk about the character of God, we realized that we cannot say everything the Bible teaches us about God’s character at once. We need some way to categorize the attributes of God. I will use the most commonly used classification: the …
Can we really know God?
If we are to know God at all, it is necessary that he reveal himself to us. Even when discussing the revelation of God that comes through nature, Paul says that what can be known about God is plain to people “because God has shown it to them” (Romans 1:19). The natural creation reveals God …
How do we know that God exists?
All people everywhere have a deep, inner sense that God exists, that they are his creatures, and that he is their Creator. Paul says that even Gentile unbelievers “knew God’ but did not honor him as God or give thanks to him (Romans 1:21). He says that wicked unbelievers have “exchanged the truth about God …
Are the Bible Scriptures enough for knowing what God wants us to think or do?
The sufficiency of Scripture means that Scripture contains all the words of God he intended his people to have at each stage of redemptive history, and that it now contains all the words of God we need for salvation, for trusting him perfectly, and for obeying him perfectly. In Scripture alone we are to search …
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