Jump to navigation

Home

Christian Library

Main menu

  • Browse
  • Log in
  • OTP

Search

You are here

  1. Library > 
  2. Doctrine … faith (What we believe) > 
  3. Doctrine … God
Subscribe to RSS - Attributes of God - General

Attributes of God - General

Holy Grief

  • Popular
  • Chris Donato

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.

  • Read more about Holy Grief
  • Share
  • Add new comment

God Only Wise

  • Popular
  • J. I. Packer

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.

  • Read more about God Only Wise
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Contentment in the Wisdom of God

  • Popular
  • Alan D. Strange

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.

  • Read more about Contentment in the Wisdom of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Reading Stephen Charnock

  • Basic
  • Murray G. Brett

This article offers a brief consideration of the goodness of God.

  • Read more about Reading Stephen Charnock
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The "Glory" Motif in the Johannine Corpus

  • Semi-Technical
  • W. Robert Cook

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

  • Read more about The "Glory" Motif in the Johannine Corpus
  • Share
  • Add new comment

God’s Names and Perfections

  • Popular
  • Jason P. Van Vliet

God revealed himself as Yahweh, Yahweh Sebaoth, El Shaddai, and Adonai. These names tell us something about the essence of God.

  • Read more about God’s Names and Perfections
  • Share
  • Add new comment

God's Love and Justice

  • Basic
  • Wilhelmus à Brakel

This article defines and correlates the justice of God and love of God.

  • Read more about God's Love and Justice
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Reflections on the Haiti Earthquake What We Should Learn from It

  • Basic
  • Cornelis Pronk

Our Lord drew some lessons from natural disasters. Often when they happen they make people question the goodness of God. Does God do bad things? Read this reflection from the Haiti earthquake and learn from it.

  • Read more about Reflections on the Haiti Earthquake
  • Share
  • Add new comment

God’s Hidden Wisdom

  • Popular
  • Jim Greenbury

This article shows how creation, redemption and providence display God’s wisdom as He works to achieve His perfect goals.

  • Read more about God’s Hidden Wisdom
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The "Inability" of God

  • Popular
  • Robert J. Ream

This article is about the omnipotent nature of God.

  • Read more about The "Inability" of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Still Small Voice

  • Popular
  • Maurice Roberts

This article is about the gentleness of God in his contact and ways with people. This article also looks at sin, grace and the power of God.

  • Read more about The Still Small Voice
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Gospel of the Glory of the Blessed God

  • Semi-Technical
  • Fred Sanders

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.

  • Read more about The Gospel of the Glory of the Blessed God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Pathos of God – A Covenantal Perspective

  • Popular
  • Michael A. Flinn

This article is about what it means for God to be in a covenant relationship with man. How does God function within this covenant relationship? What emotions does God experience? What does the Bible mean when it describes God's loving-kindness, wrath or jealousy?

  • Read more about The Pathos of God – A Covenantal Perspective
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Does God Command Genocide?

  • Popular
  • Daniel R. Hyde

Is God unjust? Why did God's justice require the annihilation of so many nations in the Old Testament (i.e. the Amalekites in 1 Samuel 15)?

  • Read more about Does God Command Genocide?
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Holiness

  • Popular
  • J. I. Packer

The holiness of God sets him apart from us and makes him an object of awe, adoration, and dread. The article shows the link between his holiness and his justice and purity.

  • Read more about Holiness
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Almightiness

  • Popular
  • J. I. Packer
  • Read more about Almightiness
  • Share
  • Add new comment

On Meeting Joe Frazier: The Missing Element of Modern Theology

  • Popular
  • Carl R. Trueman

This article shows that the problem facing modern theology, scholarship, and church life is the loss of God's holiness. Without a clear view of God holiness, individuals have an improper view of scripture, and God is viewed as an object.

  • Read more about On Meeting Joe Frazier: The Missing Element of Modern Theology
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Psalm 96:9 - Worship the LORD in the Splendour of Holiness...

  • Popular
  • H. G. L. Peels

This article discusses the holiness of God, with a specific focus on the fearsome reality and the beauty of it. Further, the holiness of God in our worship of him and in our relationship with him is also addressed.

  • Read more about Psalm 96:9 - Worship the LORD in the Splendour of Holiness...
  • Share
  • Add new comment

God Doesn't Need You and That's a Good Thing

  • Popular
  • Matthew Barrett

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.

  • Read more about God Doesn't Need You and That's a Good Thing
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Why You Want a Jealous God

  • Popular
  • Leah Baugh

God has to be jealous. This article explains that the jealousy of God is consistent with who he is.

  • Read more about Why You Want a Jealous God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Ten Things You Should Know about God's Incommunicable Attributes

  • Popular
  • Jen Wilkin

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.

  • Read more about Ten Things You Should Know about God's Incommunicable Attributes
  • Share
  • Add new comment

God Is Wise, Incomprehensible School of Theology Series: Lecture 14

  • Semi-Technical
  • Derek Thomas

Can we know God? Can we comprehend God? This article speaks first about God’s wisdom, and second about God’s incomprehensibility.

  • Read more about God Is Wise, Incomprehensible
  • Share
  • Add new comment

God Is Incorporeal, Immutable, Invisible, Glorious School of Theology Series: Lecture 8

  • Semi-Technical
  • Derek Thomas

This article discusses what it means that God is incorporeal, immutable, invisible, and glorious.

  • Read more about God Is Incorporeal, Immutable, Invisible, Glorious
  • Share
  • Add new comment

God Is Righteous, Immutable School of Theology Series: Lecture 13

  • Semi-Technical
  • Derek Thomas

This lecture is about God’s righteousness, justice, and immutability. The author differentiates between God’s retributive righteousness and his remunerative righteousness, evidencing both of these concepts from Scripture. He also roots God’s righteousness in the doctrine of the covenant.

  • Read more about God Is Righteous, Immutable
  • Share
  • Add new comment

God Is Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient School of Theology Series: Lecture 10

  • Semi-Technical
  • Derek Thomas

This article is an in-depth study of the omnipresence, omnipotence, and omniscience of God.

  • Read more about God Is Omnipresent, Omnipotent, Omniscient
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Justice and Mercy Only God could resolve the insoluble paradox

  • Basic
  • John McClean

This article shows that what is needed among Christians is a rediscovery of the holiness of God, as well as the justice and mercy of God.

  • Read more about Justice and Mercy
  • Share
  • Add new comment

What’s in a Name?

  • Popular
  • Doug Van Meter

Knowing the names of God can be a source of encouragement to a Christian when facing different situations. Why? The names of God tell us about his glorious character. The article illustrates this by considering some of his names.

  • Read more about What’s in a Name?
  • Share
  • Add new comment

"Great Is the Lord"

  • Popular
  • Kenneth D. Macleod

This article considers some of the attributes of God, namely, his power, justice, and wisdom, all of which are infinite.

  • Read more about "Great Is the Lord"
  • Share
  • Add new comment

God's Attributes and Worship

  • Popular
  • Kenneth D. Macleod

This article considers what it is to worship God as the angels do.

  • Read more about God's Attributes and Worship
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Goodness of God

  • Popular
  • Ross Macaskill

The goodness of God is infinite, eternal, and unchanging. This is what the article explains. It shows that Christians have no choice by to appreciate God’s goodness to them.

  • Read more about The Goodness of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Holiness of God

  • Popular
  • Donald C. Macaskill

Holiness defines God. This article explains that this is in relation to his being, attributes and actions. Seven characteristics of the holiness of God are explained.

  • Read more about The Holiness of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The God We Worship – His Wisdom

  • Popular
  • Alexander Murray

The wisdom of God is eternal and unchangeable. This article demonstrates how God’s wisdom is revealed through the plan of redemption and how it leads to God’s glory.

  • Read more about The God We Worship – His Wisdom
  • Share
  • Add new comment

What Is God Like?

  • Popular
  • Mark W. Turner

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.

  • Read more about What Is God Like?
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Holiness of God: Awakening to His Character

  • Popular
  • Zach Barnhart

What does it mean to say God is holy? This article argues that holiness defines the otherness of God. It discusses the two principles of holiness in God. It draws implications for the believer.

  • Read more about The Holiness of God: Awakening to His Character
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Knowability of God

  • Popular
  • Matthew Adams

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.

  • Read more about The Knowability of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Omnipotence of God

  • Popular
  • Jason Helopoulos

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.

  • Read more about The Omnipotence of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Omniscience of God

  • Popular
  • Jason Garwood

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.

  • Read more about The Omniscience of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Eternal God

  • Popular
  • Joey Cochran

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.

  • Read more about The Eternal God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Goodness of God

  • Popular
  • David Steele

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.

  • Read more about The Goodness of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Grace, Mercy, and Patience of God

  • Popular
  • Dave Jenkins

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.

  • Read more about The Grace, Mercy, and Patience of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Righteousness of God

  • Popular
  • Dave Jenkins

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.

  • Read more about The Righteousness of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

What are the Communicable Attributes of God?

  • Popular
  • Dave Jenkins

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.

  • Read more about What are the Communicable Attributes of God?
  • Share
  • Add new comment

What Are the Incommunicable Attributes of God?

  • Popular
  • Dave Jenkins

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.

  • Read more about What Are the Incommunicable Attributes of God?
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Hand of God

  • Popular
  • Francis Schaeffer

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.

  • Read more about The Hand of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Omniscience

  • Popular
  • J. I. Packer

"Omniscience" describes the reality that God knows everything, and also sees everything. What does this mean for you life? The article explains.

  • Read more about Omniscience
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Transcendence

  • Popular
  • J. I. Packer

This article explains the transcendence, immutability, impassibility, and simplicity of God.

  • Read more about Transcendence
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Revelation of God through Malachi

  • Popular
  • Sam Watson

This article shows that the book of Malachi serves to reveal God to his people. Several attributes of God are discussed, including his love and grace.

  • Read more about The Revelation of God through Malachi
  • Share
  • Add new comment

God’s Justice: Love Tells the Truth

  • Basic
  • Wes L. Bredenhof

True biblical preaching must tell people about God’s justice. This article shows that God’s justice is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable. This means that God will always punish sin.

  • Read more about God’s Justice: Love Tells the Truth
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Bavinck on the Names and Attributes of the Triune God

  • Popular
  • Cornelis P. Venema

In this article the author discusses Bavinck's view of the names of God and the attributes of God (communicable and incommunicable attributes).

  • Read more about Bavinck on the Names and Attributes of the Triune God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Godhood of God

  • Popular
  • Arthur W. Pink

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.

  • Read more about The Godhood of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

God With Us Here And Now

  • Popular
  • John M. Frame

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.

  • Read more about God With Us Here And Now
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Reformed Faith Teaches The Comprehensive Covenant Lordship Of God

  • Semi-Technical
  • John M. Frame

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.

  • Read more about The Reformed Faith Teaches The Comprehensive Covenant Lordship Of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Ten Things You Should Know about God's Attributes

  • Popular
  • Mark Jones

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.

  • Read more about Ten Things You Should Know about God's Attributes
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Knowing God’s Infinite, Eternal, and Unchangeable Truth

  • Popular
  • George I. Macaskill

Not only is the truth of God absolute, but God himself is the truth. This article shows that God’s truth can only be known in Christ and through the Bible.

  • Read more about Knowing God’s Infinite, Eternal, and Unchangeable Truth
  • Share
  • Add new comment

God's Holiness: Its Implications in Christian Life and Destiny

  • Popular
  • Roderick Finlayson

This article focuses on the holiness of God and its vital relevance to our daily life.

  • Read more about God's Holiness: Its Implications in Christian Life and Destiny
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Triune God – The Greatness of God

  • Semi-Technical
  • Bryan Chapell

The author wants to demonstrate that God is great in contradistinction to what we are. To do so, he makes use of Romans 4. He discusses the nature of scriptural hope, that it is a hope and trust in the greatness of God.

  • Read more about The Triune God – The Greatness of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

How to Teach the Doctrine of the Blessedness of God

  • Semi-Technical
  • Fred Sanders

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.

  • Read more about How to Teach the Doctrine of the Blessedness of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Soteriology Notes: The Doctrine of God

  • Semi-Technical
  • Jack L. Arnold

In this article are notes on the doctrine of God. The focus is on the communicable and the non-communicable attributes of God.

  • Read more about Soteriology Notes: The Doctrine of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The God of All Grace

  • Semi-Technical
  • Charles J. Terpstra

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.

  • Read more about The God of All Grace
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Does God Feel Our Pain?

  • Semi-Technical
  • Mark Baddeley

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.

  • Read more about Does God Feel Our Pain?
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Holiness of God

  • Semi-Technical
  • Roderick Finlayson

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.

  • Read more about The Holiness of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The True God

  • Popular
  • Henry T. Mahan

Believing in the true God is believing in God as He has revealed Himself. Free will theology makes God out to be less than He really is.

  • Read more about The True God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Immutability of God

  • Semi-Technical
  • Charles H. Spurgeon

This article considers the immutability of God, that God does not change.

  • Read more about The Immutability of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Divine Blessedness in Non-Christian Theologies

  • Semi-Technical
  • Fred Sanders

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.

  • Read more about Divine Blessedness in Non-Christian Theologies
  • Share
  • Add new comment

An Evangelical Reformulation of the Doctrine of the Immutability of God

  • Technical
  • Bruce A. Ware

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.

  • Read more about An Evangelical Reformulation of the Doctrine of the Immutability of God
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Critical Biblical Theology in a New Key: A Review Article

  • Technical
  • John F. Hobbins

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.

  • Read more about Critical Biblical Theology in a New Key: A Review Article
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Of God and His Perfections

  • Technical
  • Thomas Boston

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.

  • Read more about Of God and His Perfections
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Great Is Thy Faithfulness, Lord unto ... Thyself

  • Popular
  • Mike Riccardi

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.

  • Read more about Great Is Thy Faithfulness, Lord unto ... Thyself
  • Share
  • Add new comment

The Invisibility of God: A Survey of a Misunderstood Phenomenon

  • Technical
  • Andrew S. Malone

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.

  • Read more about The Invisibility of God: A Survey of a Misunderstood Phenomenon
  • Share
  • Add new comment

Right sidebar

Featured content

Left sidebar

Library

If believing and repenting are proper conditions of my salvation, I can no more fulfil them than I can touch the stars John Newton
  • Share