The author speaks about the holiness of God with respect to grief. In doing so, the author answers the question why God is depicted as grieving in Scripture. His explanation includes the discussion of how God's grieving is like our human way of grieving, and how it is different.
What is wisdom? How is the wisdom of God different from human wisdom? This article shows how God is wise in leading and guiding the lives of man by describing how God worked in the lives of Abraham, Jacob, and Joseph.
Does God know what he is doing? If everything falls within the will of God, why is there so much sin in the world? This article addresses questions like these, coming to the conclusion that Christians must trust in the wisdom of God in the midst of a fallen world.
This article offers a brief consideration of the goodness of God.
What is the glory of God? What does it mean to glorify God? This paper wants to make a contribution to the understanding of what the apostle John means by "glory" in his different writings. The author reviews the different terms used, and draws attention to the primary objects of glory
This article is about the omnipotent nature of God.
Looking at 1 Timothy 1:11, this article show what it means to speak about divine blessedness. Lamenting the loss of the blessedness of God in modern theology, the article calls for the rediscovery of this truth. The concept of a blessed God sums up the divine attributes of God, provides a bridge to the Trinity, and helps to interpret the anthropomorphisms of scripture.
Does God need his creation for his happiness? This article explains that God has life in and of himself (his aseity), and so he does not need us. It is precisely because God is free from creation that he is able to save sinners.
God has to be jealous. This article explains that the jealousy of God is consistent with who he is.
God is different from us. We know this from his attributes. Some of his attributes he shares with humanity; others he does not, and these are known as God's incommunicable attributes. This article provides ten things to know on the subject.
This article considers some of the attributes of God, namely, his power, justice, and wisdom, all of which are infinite.
This article considers what it is to worship God as the angels do.
What is God like? This question can only be answered by God, and he has answered it by revealing himself in the Bible. This article explains the Trinity, the communicable attributes, and incommunicable attributes of God.
Can God be known? Knowing God is dependent on his revelation. This article discusses the relationship between God's revelation and his incomprehensibility. It concludes that knowing God is possible because God has revealed himself to us, so that we can know him—not exhaustively, but according to his perfect and wise counsel.
What does it mean that God is almighty? The omnipotence of God is the answer to this question. It speaks of his ability to bring to fruition all that he sovereignly wills, because he is almighty. This article explains what this means and how the believer should find rest in this truth.
Does God know everything? The answer is found in the truth of the omniscience of God. This article explains the two sides of the knowledge of God and the impact it has on worshipping him.
What does it mean that God is eternal? This expresses the truth that there never was a time when God was not, and there never will be a time when God is not.
What does it mean to say "God is good"? To answer this question this article looks at how the goodness of God is described in the Bible, and how the Bible calls us to respond to his goodness.
What does it mean to say that God is gracious, merciful, and patient? God’s mercy means God’s goodness towards those in misery and distress. God’s grace means God’s goodness towards those who deserve only punishment. God’s patience means God’s goodness in withholding punishment toward those who sin over a period of time. This article explains these attributes of God and their implications for the Christian.
What is the meaning of the righteousness of God? God’s righteousness means that God always acts in accordance with what is right. He himself is the final standard of what is right. This article shows how this righteousness is revealed in God's Word and in Christ, which gives the believer assurance of the justice of God.
What are the communicable attributes of God? After defining communicable attributes, this article explains the holiness, love, goodness, justice and righteousness, and wisdom of God and how they relate to knowing God.
How is God different from creatures? This article can be answered by understanding the difference between communicable attributes and incommunicable attributes. After explaining the difference this article looks at the aseity of God and its implication for believers.
This article shows how we must think about the hand of God as mentioned in the Bible. This anthropomorphism used to describe God tells us about God's action. This action is seen in God's work of creation, preservation, chastisement, and invitation.
"Omniscience" describes the reality that God knows everything, and also sees everything. What does this mean for you life? The article explains.
This article explains the transcendence, immutability, impassibility, and simplicity of God.
To speak about the Godhood of God is to affirm that God truly is God. Looking at God and His attributes, this article shows how society through its lifestyle can deny these attributes and paint another picture of God, which this article calls the "modern god". The author points to creation, revelation, salvation and providence as affirmation of the Godhood of God.
This article examines God's character, looking at the relationship between the changeableness of God and His unchangeability. Applying this to the story of redemption, the author shows that it is possible to speak about both the unchanging nature of God as well as the biblical records of God changing His mind.
The unique aspect of the Reformed faith is its understanding of the covenant Lordship of God as the framework for understanding scripture. This article shows that this Lordship emphasizes the control of God, His authority, and His presence over all creation. This makes the Reformed faith applicable as a theology to any context, culture and time.
This article discusses ten important features about God's attributes, including: he is simple, infinite, eternal, unchangeable, independent, omnipotent, love, and his attributes shine forth most clearly in Christ.
This article focuses on the holiness of God and its vital relevance to our daily life.
Arguing for the recovery of the doctrine of the blessedness of God, this article gives some guidelines on how to teach the doctrine of divine blessedness.
In this article are notes on the doctrine of God. The focus is on the communicable and the non-communicable attributes of God.
When we talk about the grace of God we refer to the beauty of God. Grace also points to the underserved favour and the power of God.
This article considers whether or not God feels our pain. The doctrine it upholds is the impassibility of God, and shows why this is good news: God saves out of love and grace, and the cross changes everything.
On this topic of the holiness of God, the author starts by attempting to understand the meaning behind the Hebrew term used for the English word "holy." Suggestions include holiness as separation and as an expression of relationship. The author then goes on to describe the holiness of God as revealed in Scripture.
This article considers the immutability of God, that God does not change.
The doctrine of divine blessedness has been objected to on the grounds that to call God blessed is pagan. This article shows that using the term does not mean that Christians have taken on its pagan meaning. Instead, Christians use it in a way that shows how God is distinguished from other gods, since He is Triune and engaged in history.
How should the immutability of God be understood? This essay briefly examines the biblical evidence that speaks most clearly on God's immutability. Next, the author proposes senses of mutability and immutability that may be attributed to God. Is it possible for God to "repent"? Divine impassibility is also discussed in this context.
This is a review article of Der Gott der Lebendigen (God of the Living), co-authored by Hermann Spieckermann and Reinhard Feldmeier. This review regards as a success the attempt of the authors to demonstrate the value of writing a theology in which the attributes of God are the point of departure.
This article seeks to describe in some detail the nature of God as revealed in Scripture. This discription therefore includes in it the identity of God as Spirit, and then also describes him in terms of his incommunicable attributes—he is infinite, omnipresent, omniscient, and eternal.
This article starts with a consideration of 1 Samuel 8 and moves to a discussion of the faithfulness of God as the basis for his gracious forgiveness. And then it outlines what ought to be the nature of our response to God's forgiveness.
Is there a disparity between the Old and New Testaments on the doctrine of the invisibility of God? This article considers the evidence, suggesting to take seriously the Old Testament statements that God can be seen, and to reconsider what the New Testament passages (e.g., John 1:18, John 5:37, 1 John 4:12) claim when they refer to God's invisibility.
