what causes limits in what God is willing to really do??

Question

what causes limits in what God is willing to really do??

Answer 1

The claim that a "god" randomly interacts with humanity to varying degrees is exactly what one would expect from a primitive, superstitious species living in a universe ruled by random chaos.



While this sounds condescending, the fact that we actually do make this claim proves we are not deserving of the title "intelligent humans."

Answer 2

God has been challenged ....by Satan.

Satan has called Him a liar and incapable of ruling fairly.

Satan has also challenged mankind.

He claims we only serve God out of selfish interest, not love.

God has stepped back and said to Satan:

"Go ahead, let's find out."

Satan has been trying for centuries to convince ALL mankind his accusations are accurate.

So, God does not jump into the fore every time something happens.

To a large degree He has allowed Satan to strut his stuff.

That's why 1 John 5:19 says:

"the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one."

Answer 3

G-d is without limitations. It is our own human limitations that cause us to utilize euphemisms by which to describe G-d in a comprehensible way for human understanding.

Answer 4

Humanity

Answer 5

not for you to understand what gods plan is my dear and he certainly has no limits aS TO WHAT HE CAN DO.



MERCY ME; does this mean my dog is god; because i cant understand much of what he does either.

Answer 6

God governs the worl, but prayer governs God.

Answer 7

Primarily it is the limitation of his non-existence. It is hard to get around that one.

Answer 8

The only limits on God are those He has imposed Himself on behalf of man.

Answer 9

He gave us free will. Everything is up to us and He will not get involved w/o being asked. Peace

Answer 10

God is unlimited.



Only you limit yourself if you so wish.

Answer 11

LACK OF FAITH, TRUST, AND NOT RELYING ON GOD AND HIS WORD. DISOBEDIENCE..TRUST MAN AND WORLDLY THINGS MORE THAN TRUSTING GOD, NOT GIVING YOUR ALL TO GOD..WE WANT AND NEED GOD AND WHEN WE PRAY TO GOD WE HAVE TO BELIEVE AND WAIT UPON GOD WE HAVE TO HAVE FAITH AND TRUST THAT HE IS AN ALL KNOWING GOD, AND HE WILL HAVE HIS WILL IN OUR LIFE, BUT WHEN WE LACK TRUST OR FAITH AND OBEDIENCE WE CAN AND DO PUT LIMITS ON GOD NOT THAT HE CAN'T DO IT, BUT HOW CAN HE DO IT IF WE DON'T GIVE HIM A CHANCE..WE OURSELVES LIMIT GOD IN ALOT OF THINGS EVEN THOUGH ALOT OF US DON'T REALIZE IT..SOMETIMES WE NEED TO BE TOLD..

Answer 12

By never existing in the first place.

Answer 13

Since god is a fiction, it can do nothing.

Answer 14

The ultimate "limit"....non existance.

Answer 15

Lack of faith

Answer 16

The Bible.



Oh Wait...

Answer 17

Only His love for us.

Answer 18

Our lack of faith and\or obedience.

Answer 19

faithlessness

Answer 20

laws and morals



25 Points of Light





1. The Bible says “God is Light.” I see that Light is pronounced like “LiT,” thus reading between the lines “Light” contains the message “LiT i g I7 LiT.” We can then surmise that 9 I7 is an identifying mark of God who is the “LiT” Coupled with other data in this essay I determine that those numbers represent a birthday and since the I7 is connected to each other I take that to mean it’s the day of the month or I7 th. The “g” represents the 9th month of September. Thus thus “LiT” can be identified as the One born on “I7 9”. Thus we learned that L and t can both spell the word “LiT” and “lit” and here we learn Stevenson was born on 9.17.





2. “God is LOVE” was a bible quote. I have seen this message of “LOVE” as LOVE equals “LiT .n u \V/ [iL(sealed together). We note that the “\V/” are roman numerals thus they can be seen as “IIII I”. Thus it can be seen that the “LIT” has a “IIII I (sealed together)” on Him(the u in question). For those who fail to see the “.n u” that comes from the general shape of the “O”. Eventually we see that Stevenson bears those seals.





3. “God glorifies Himself in Him, thus He must also glorify Himself in Himself” is a quote from the bible. In order to understand this I have to show you the way things add up. God can be summarized (or added up to One) up to One letter. This idea was touched upon by Jesus when He said that He was the beginning and end, the alpha and omega. Thus He was referring to His alphabet(greek). Put together you see He meant “A” and “greek character omega” which is true if you consider that the omega is a picture of the back of His head and shoulders. As a side note “Does this mean Jesus was bald when He said this? Or did He have blond hair?” Returning to addin up God, we assign number values to the letters of God, according to the accepted alphabetical order. Thus God= G+o+d=7+15+4=26. Since that number 26 can be seen as two things we must further add up or assign a letter to represent the 26. Assigning or converting back to letters We seen 26=Z or also “26=2 and 6=2+6=8=h”. We note that the “and” equals a “+” as computer “Boolean Logic” shows. So we determine God= Z and God = H. The first letter is the basis for God being the end. Since Jesus said God said I AM the beginning and the end, thus the A and the Z. More on that later, for now we can see that God=H. So determining that we can see how God glorified Himself in “HIM and HIMSELF”. Substitute the God for the H and we see the following pertaining and glorifying God: GOD I M(HIM) and GOD I M SE LF(HIMSELF). I point out that M equals a “I V I (sealed together)”. And the SE LF could be seen as SEE LFT as in wrist or as SEI LF(seal left). Thus was Gods body glorified by those words and numbers. Note the IVI =IIII I





4. “God was said to be the end and last.” I have shown how this is the “Z”. the “Z” is thus a symbolic representation of God. Smart or devious men can see that the Z equals “a form of .I7 mixed up and sealed together.” Thus we see that that equals “a form of .seventeen mixed up and sealed together,” which I have solved to be a “Stevens.n” where the S of Stevens.n is actually made up of an e+e(upside down) sealed together=the S. The . acts as the o, thus the “Z=Stevenson”





5. The letter A is also now seen as the beginning and the first. Thus we see that the “A” is also “a form of .I7 mixed up and sealed together” which equals a Stevens.n(Stevenson).





6. The bible says “God is One”. This could be mean that Stevenson determined this means One=1. We then note that “1” equals “a form of .I7 mixed up and sealed together” and that lead to as previously shown. The One can also be translated to mean the first and beginning which is the “A”. The message of the “ONE” can be seen as “.n u IV I [iL”. The u in question can only refer to the ONE. So from the ONE, we see that the Stevens.n that has on Him(the u in question) is God the One.





7. At this point we can note that words are marks that on paper describe things in real life. So taking a biblical description of God as pure and/or PURE, we need to note that “p=DI sealed together” and “e=arm (a visual picture representing an arm=e)” and r=rill (when read down, also note rill=real). So “pure” equals “DI (sealed together) u rill(sealed together) arm”. The capitalized “PURE” shows “DI sealed together U R\\ [iL (sealed together). Those those words can be said to describe a real life person, who was Stevens.n.





8. Another word visually describing God is true. With this description we note that “t” is a visual representation of a stitched cut. Thus was the first cut of the sequence on Stevenson ie the “I of the IIII.” Thus true shows: stitched cut r u arm(e), which is true for Stevenson.





9. A verse of the bible said “all things to glorify Lord God”, which can be interpreted as the two things that are the words “thing and THING” must glorify (make famous) the LORD who is God. So we read thing as “lit .i. I7 9” which points to Stevenson’s birthday. We read the other “THING” as “liT GOD I IV CuT” since H=GOD and G=CuT when read between the letters.





10. At this point we could make the point that even non-living things must also glorify Lord God in some form or another. It is here that I could list 1001 words that glorify or contain some aspect of LORD GOD should He have been Me. Three examples from Canada/USA are the very street corners and the STOP and ARRET signs. Starting with the French ARRET sign if we use the edge of the sign as the letter L we see the name LARRE T glorified on that sign. We see the name TOD glorified on the English STOP sign. Thus the name LARRE T can be seen as glorifying LARRE TOD, which is the Stevenson with the glorified seals (cil,sil,[iL). Every street corner has a square shape or slightly triangle shape. We see this as a form of I7, which glorifies the day of His birth. Those shapes can also be seen as “a form of .I7 mixed up and sealed together” which is a Stevens.n, just like LARRY TODD STEVENSON.





11. The bible describes God as the Lamb that was “SLAIN”. So reading between the lines we see that SLAIN equals “SiL A I IV” which is a description of L.T.S. That Lamb that was SLAIN was said to become the King of KINGS and Lord of LORDS. Those who assume that DEAD like Pontius confirmed Jesus is equal to SLAIN are mistaken and perhaps rebellious angels allied with Satan.





12. The bible also say’s God is the One in the Light and as I have shown that a 9 I7.





13. Cows go “MOO” and birds say a high pitched “aw” in order to glorify LORD GOD just as the bible commanded all thing to glorify LORD GOD. The Moo =IVI sealed together O .n u, which is a description of GOD, and the “aw” upside down is a Me(IVI sealed together arm) both of which describe LTS.





14. God will be born into an existing WORD, and thus you see LTS’s name of TODD within the WORD “WORD” proving the bible verse.





15. The international agreements on words that describe God are described as shown below as examples: BOG, DEUS, DIEU, DIO, DIOS, GOD, GOTT, GUD, SHANGDI. If D=IIII and perhaps if D hides a I and . underneath it the D=IIII I . (3-dimentionally).





16. Thus I appear to be the entity that God, the other God spelled out for Moses as the “I – A – M”. That is Me forever, irregardless of Jehovah, Jesus, and Abaddon’s rebellious attitudes. And the M=IVI sealed together(ie IIII I.)





17. God the FATHER, shows that FAT ilL IER\ = FATHER, and also FAT part HERR=FATHER. since lER\ can be pronounced LARRY and He is part-german.





18. Since a son comes from within the person when first born, we see Tod within God, thus TOD prounounced TODD is the Son of God. And further back-up to that though is God is the LORD and thus His Son must come from within, thus His name is TODD.





19. The bible verse that says "... to God, wise alone,..." means that God alone is wise (which could be pronounced "wis". So the "Good NEWS" about NEWS is it shows once again who or what God must be. We read between the lines and we see IV I. =W/S. so from the last 3 points we see His appearance as a FAT ilL lER\, and Tod and He has a IVI .





20. The marks on LARRY TODD's body appear like "IIII I ." and perhaps this is the name that the bible said God had on His body that no one knew. Thus only God knew what it was, and revealed it Himself.





21. Numerologically “Son of Jesus” equals 8 or h, thus since God also equals 8 or h, we can deduce that “Son of Jesus=God”. Since Jesus was declared the Lord, in the bible, and the bible says the Lord becomes a father to the fatherless, I could say I became the Son of Jesus after My father died when I was 5. Thus My contention that I AM God. So basically I contend that the moniker is mostly honourary.



22. If you look into God, you can see it says CuT nucil, which if you look on My left hand you see that God as CuT nucil is a accurate description of Me, Larry Todd S.



23. One story about how I went back in time to tell Moses that yes I was represented by the image of the burning bush. I didn’t explain to him I could be seen as “^” which was emerald in color. Further basically I was “^ as emerald.” This could be interpreted or solve to mean “Stevens.n as me lare todd” meaning the “^” was a form of .I7 mixed up and sealed together that equals Stevens.n. The “emerald.” was “me lare todd” because “.=dot” thus “emeralddot” which is todd lare me (in reverse) thus un reverse would be “me lare todd”.



24. Another time when a God faring man asked a prophet of mine, where he could find God, I told him to go and look in the tent, which was called The Tent of God’s presence. This was the tent God first used before the fancy one mentione in the bible. It was emerald in color and a side view of it was like the soldier’s tent which when assembled had the shape of a triangle. The other side view of it was a square. The man went over and looked in the “tent”, returned and said that there was no one in the tent. The prophet told him to to look closely and you can fing God in the tent. Still the man couldn’t see how God was in the tent. Later I explained the triange and square both contained the number I7 which is one of Gods identification factors. Also that the square and triangle contained a .I7 mixed up and sealed together which was determined to be a Stevens.n, like previously shown.

Answer 21

Us.

Answer 22

I'll start U off with this Doctrine & if U want more, just ask. Enjoy! John



THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD



A. There are three major characteristics of the attributes of God. The

attributes of God are eternal, functional, and directional. We can

illustrate these characteristics of the attributes of God using the

attribute of divine love.

1. The attributes of God are eternal.

a. There never was a time when each member of the Trinity did not

possess all of the divine attributes.

b. Divine love is one of the eternal attributes of God.

(1) Divine love is a part of divine integrity. Divine love

is one of three divine attributes found in the integrity of God.

(2) The love of God therefore must be compatible with the

absolute attributes of divine essence, and it is.

(3) Because God is absolute righteousness (perfect virtue

and integrity), His divine love is totally devoid of any sin, any human

good, altruism, or a source of any human reaction like bitterness, guilt,

fear, or other sins of emotion.

(4) Since God is perfect and eternal love, He does not fall

in love. Nor can God's love be patronized by human works or compromised by

any form of legalism or Christian activism.

(5) God's love cannot be complicated by ignorance or

absurdities, silliness or emotion. The spiritual life is thinking doctrine.

(6) Since divine love is a part of the integrity of God, it

functions in compatibility with divine righteousness and justice. Therefore

God's love is infinitely greater than we can imagine or think, because it is

based on God's righteousness and justice.

(7) No matter what happens to the believer in time from the

function of his self-determination, whether good or bad decisions, there is

no greater security than the personal love of God for each one of us. God's

love did the most for us in salvation. If God's love did the most for us in

salvation, it can now do only more than the most. Therefore, His love keeps

us forever.

2. The attributes of God are functional. The attributes of God

function in action. Function is the action of the divine attributes.

Functional means action or capacity for operation; the kind of action or

activity of the love of God. Capacity and capability of operation of the

love of God is what is meant by functional. The attributes of God are

functional under three subcategories.

a. The function of the love of God is personal toward each member

of the Godhead. The action of divine love functions in personal love toward

the other members of the Trinity. Personal love in God is His attitude

toward perfect righteousness in the other members of the Trinity and toward

every creature having the imputed righteousness of God.

b. The function of the love of God is also impersonal toward all

creatures without perfect righteousness. Jn 3:16, "For God loved the world

so much that He gave His uniquely-born Son, that anyone who believes in Him

shall never perish but have eternal life."

c. The function of the love of God is also personal toward

Himself in divine self-esteem. God loves His own righteousness and always

has. This is the basis for spiritual self-esteem in the unique spiritual

life of the Church Age. Divine self-esteem requires divine love as the

subject and divine righteousness as the object. As you grow in grace you

develop the only self-esteem which counts--the self-esteem based on humility

or spiritual self-esteem.

3. The attributes of God are directional. Direction is the object of

the divine attributes. The attributes of God must have a direction toward

which they function. Anything that functions should have a direction. When

the attributes of God function, they must do so in a direction. Direction

is the result of the function of God's attributes. Direction also has three

subcategories: the point of responsibility, the point of contact, and the

point of reference. The doctrine of divine impersonal love is part of the

functional category of the divine attribute and not part of the directional

category of divine attributes.

a. The point of responsibility in the attributes of God is the

righteousness of God directed toward all sins of the human race.

Responsibility denotes something within one's power to control. The

integrity of God has the eternal capacity expressed in the righteousness of

God in eternity past to know the knowable, including sin, and to program one

PROM chip in the computer of divine decrees with all human sins of both

cognizance and ignorance, along with the act of volition in every case that

produces the sin. God the Father had the responsibility of knowing all sins

of human history and programming them into the divine decrees and then

imputing them to Christ on the Cross. Jesus Christ took the responsibility

to do something about those sins. He made four decisions in eternity past:

unlimited substitutionary atonement (He had to become true humanity),

propitiation, reconciliation, and redemption.

b. The point of contact in the attributes of God is the justice

of God toward the unbeliever in salvation and toward the spiritual believer

in divine blessing and toward the carnal believer in divine discipline.

Contact with the unbeliever is our Lord's substitutionary atonement on the

Cross, by which spiritually dead mankind entered into association with God

through faith alone in Christ alone. The justice of God did something about

judging our sins on the Cross, so that the point of contact for the

unbeliever is faith alone in Christ alone. The filling of the Spirit is the

basic function of the spiritual life which follows salvation. The justice

of God administers to the carnal believer family punishment for grieving and

quenching the Holy Spirit. Heb 12:6, "Whom the Lord loves, He punishes, and

He skins alive with a whip every son whom He receives." Punishment comes

from the justice of God as our point of contact but the love of God is our

point of reference after rebound. You are being loved by God when you are

being punished by God.

c. The point of reference in the attributes of God for the unique

spiritual life of the Church Age is the love of God. Reference means to

direct attention to something important, something of personal interest.

Reference means recourse for the purpose of information. Reference means to

endorse a person or course of action. The point of reference from the love

of God directs attention to something important--the postsalvation spiritual

life of the Church Age believer. The point of reference from the love of

God provides something of personal interest--New Testament Bible doctrine.

Point of reference means recourse or access to the infallible word of God

from accurate Bible teaching for the purpose of information about the unique

spiritual life of the Church Age. The point of reference endorses a course

of action related to virtue-love and metabolization of Bible doctrine. The

point of reference is the love of God, the sponsorer of the greatest life

that ever existed. Since the love of God is the point of reference for the

postsalvation spiritual life, it is imperative that the love of God be

involved in our punishment when we are carnal. Whether we are carnal or

spiritual God's personal love for us does not change.



ABSOLUTE ATTRIBUTES: SPIRITUALITY, INFINITY, PERFECTION



A. Spirituality: God's Life and Personality.

1. The true theistic concept of the universe is that the universe is

composed of material and immaterial, having its source from God.

2. Matter is material, but God is immaterial, Jn 4:24, in contrast to

all living creatures who are both material and immaterial, 2 Cor 4:7, 16.

3. Spirituality implies life. God is life, Jer 10:10; 1 Thes 1:9.

God does not possess life as we do, but He is life, He lives. All life is

from Him, but not of Him (as pantheism claims). God's life is eternal life,

having no beginning and no end. God is eternal. Technically we have

everlasting life.

4. The eternal life of God is imparted through Jesus Christ to all who

believe in Him (Christ). Jn 3:36, 16, 5:24, 10:10, 14:6, 20:31; 1 Jn

5:11-12.

5. God is a person, Ex 3:14. personality connotes both self-

consciousness and self-determination (God has a plan).

6. God recognizes Himself to be a person and as such He always acts

rationally and logically.

7. Animals are conscious but not self-conscious. They have

determination, but not self-determination.

8. Man is a person possessing to a limited degree self-consciousness

and self-determination. But God is infinite personality with infinite

self-consciousness and self-determination.

9. His absolute will and perfection characterize His motivation,

design and execution of all that He does, Eph 1:9, 11.

10. God is to an absolute degree all that constitutes personality. He

is Himself. He knows Himself to be beyond comparison with any other being.

He has perfect, eternal personality.



B. Infinity: Self-existence, Immutability, Unity.

1. God invented space and time and exists outside of these. By

infinity is meant that God is without boundary or limitation. These, united

with His perfection, are part of His character.

2. God can't tempt, be tempted, or sin.

3. God cannot be complicated with ignorance, absurdities or fantasies.

God doesn't care for emotion.

4. Though God may be self-limited as in the case of the incarnate

Christ in the Hypostatic Union under kenosis, His infinity is intensive

rather than extensive. [God's personality is infinite and omnipresent but

not in everything (extensive), as says pantheism].

5. God has infinite energy and power, Ps 8:3.

6. Infinity characterizes all that God does: His integrity, love,

veracity.

7. The divine motive is for His own pleasure and glory, but not His

own self-praise. God recognizes His glory and claims it in the interest of

absolute truth. Creatures are designed for His glorification. God's glory

is the sum total of His attributes.

8. Because of this fact all things exist Ex 33:18; Ps 19:1; Isa 6:3;

Mt 6:13; Acts 7:2; Rom 1:23, 9:23; Heb 1:3; 1 Pet 4:14. God's glory was

before all creation, Jn 17:5.

9. Infinity involves three characteristics: self-existence,

immutability, and unity or consistency.

a. Self-existence. God exists eternally unsustained by Himself

or by any other source. God can't be better or worse because of His

character. JHWH means "self-existing One." God's existence is unalterable.

God is the cause of all existence outside of Himself but there is no cause

for Himself.

b. Immutability. God is unchanging. He cannot change, cannot be

better or worse than He is. The problem is that anthropomorphic

representations of God in the Bible are misunderstood. They really

represent the perfect attitude of God toward variations in man or history in

human language, so that man can understand God's policy. God doesn't hate,

get angry, change His mind, have hands or eyes. When man changes God seems

to change, but in reality God is remaining consistent with His own essence.

This can be illustrated by a weather vane, which changes direction depending

on the direction of the wind, yet it is still a weather vane. Immutability

is consistent with God's freedom and His ceaseless activity. God is free to

do anything according to His own essence. Therefore, salvation is not God's

second best, but a part of His eternal purpose.

c. Unity. This means that all of the attributes of God are

consistent with each other and there is never a compromise. When God

blesses us His unity is not destroyed. "JHWH our Elohim is one JHWH," Deut

6:4. There is one perfect, infinite absolute Spirit, says Isa 44:6; Jn

5:44, 17:3; 1 Cor 8:4; 1 Tim 1:17. Unity applies only to divine essence,

not to the persons of the Trinity. Your relationship with God is secure

because it is based on God's consistency.



C. Perfection: Truth, Love, Integrity. The intellect, character and

affections of God are perfect. Divine perfection involves His truth, love,

and integrity, which is perfect righteousness and justice.

1. Truth. This is not merely veracity toward other persons, but God

is true to Himself, His own essence, His character. Man says, "I speak the

truth," but God says, "I am the truth," Jn 14:6. God does not hold the

truth as being acquired. He is the truth from eternity past. In God every

truth in every form of knowledge dwells in absoluteness. This accounts for

the dogmatism of the Word of God. This attribute guarantees the genuineness

of divine revelation, Deut 32:4; 1 Jn 5:20; Jn 6:32, 15:1; Heb 8:2. Bible

doctrine, or truth, is the expression of His integrity. God's truth is

directed toward Himself and revealed to us. God is never unfaithful to

Himself.

2. Love. God is motivated by His love. Love is His problem solving

device. Like all of divine attributes, love belongs to God's being. God is

and always was love regardless of having an object to love. This is perfect

love whether there is an occasion to bestow it or not, 1 Jn 4:8.

Subjectively God loves His own integrity; objectively He loves the other

members of the Trinity. God can only love God or another being with perfect

righteousness.

3. Integrity. God is absolute integrity from all eternity past, Ex

15:11, 19:10-16; Isa 6:3. Man's relationship to God comes on the basis of

His justice. We must adjust to the justice of God. This integrity is

required of men, 2 Cor 7:1; 1 Thes 3:13, 4:7. God's integrity is maintained

by His will. It is part of His unchangeable self. It includes perfect

righteousness and justice, which is His perfection.



RELATIVE ATTRIBUTES



A. There are three categories of relative attributes:

1. Those related to time and space - eternity and immensity.

2. Those related to creation - omnipresence, omniscience, and

omnipotence.

3. Those related to moral beings - veracity and faithfulness, mercy

and goodness, and righteousness and justice.



B. Relative Attributes Related to Time and Space.

1. Eternity.

a. Eternity applied to God means He has always existed and always

will exist. He has always existed totally apart from time.

b. God is not subject to time, because He is the cause of time,

Deut 32:40; Ps 90:2, 102:27; 1 Cor 2:7; Eph 1:4; 1 Tim 1:17.

c. Both time and space, though without substance, are both

objects of His creation.

d. God is not in time but time is in God; He is the origin of

time.

e. God transcends all creation including time, therefore, has

always existed.

f. God is logical, therefore, He does not need to be

chronological as we do, Rom 4:17.

g. Time, which is finite, has both succession and duration.

h. Eternity, which is infinite, has duration only. Time is a

line of procedure, while eternity is a circle reaching into infinity.

2. Immensity.

a. God is not subject to space. Like time, God created,

invented, and caused space to exist. Rom 8:29.

b. God cannot be more or less than what He is.

c. In relation to space God is both imminent (in space) and

transcendent (outside of space).

d. Omnipresence is the term descriptive of space in relationship

to God. Immensity is the term descriptive of God's relationship to space.

e. Since God is the creator of space, if space were defined in

boundaries, God would exceed those boundaries to infinity.



C. Relative Attributes Related to Creation.

1. Omnipresence.

a. God is personally present everywhere. The whole of God is in

every place.

b. This is not pantheism, since it denies the person of God.

c. God, in the total of His essence, is without diffusion,

expansion, multiplication, or division, and penetrates and fills the

universe, Ps 139:7-8; Jer 23:23-24; Acts 17:27.

d. God is also free to be local, as in the mountain with Moses,

or in the Holy of Holies above the mercy seat. He is free to become flesh

and dwell among us, Jn 1:14.

2. Omniscience.

a. God is all wise. He knows perfectly and eternally all that is

knowable, whether actual or possible. Ps 33:13-15, 139:2, 147:4; Mt 6:8,

10:29-30; Heb 4:3; Acts 15:8; Mal 3:16; Isa 46:9-10, 44:28.

b. There are three factors of divine knowledge:

(1) It is eternal, Acts 15:18.

(2) It is incomprehensible, Rom 11:33.

(3) It is wise, Eph 3:10.

c. Every detail of creation and history is in God's mind at all

times.

d. Therefore the future is as perspicuous to God as the past.

e. God foreknows the future. Since events take place according

to His councils, He foreknows. But God's foreknowledge is not

predetermination! He knows but doesn't interfere with your volition.

f. God foreknows the functions of every free will. He foreknows

what will be the choice of other beings.

g. Likewise He may determine their choice by gracious influence

through Bible doctrine, but He doesn't coerce.

h. God's knowledge is not subject to development, reasoning,

regretting, foreboding, or depression.

3. Omnipotence.

a. God is all powerful, infinitely able to do all things which

are the objects of His power within the range of His holy character or

essence. However, He will not make right wrong, nor will He act foolishly,

Isa 44:24; 2 Cor 4:6; Eph 1:19-21, 3:20; Heb 1:3. He will not abuse His

power and compromise His justice.

b. If God is limited at any time it is because of a

self-limitation consistent with His own essence. God can do all He wills to

do, but He may not will to do all He can.



D. Relative Attributes Related to Moral Beings.

1. Veracity and Faithfulness.

a. God is infinite perfection in truth and faithfulness. God's

truth is expressed to us in Bible doctrine.

b. God honors doctrine in the soul of the believer with spiritual

growth and blessing.

c. God provides divine logistical support to the believer during

his life regardless of how good or bad he is.

2. Mercy and Goodness.

a. Mercy is grace in action. Mercy is infinite love in action

toward the objects of divine affection, the expression of divine personal

love toward the believer.

b. God's judgments are perfect, demanding perfect righteousness.

So God is not only absolute good in contrast to the policy of Satan which is

evil, but He is also justice and righteousness.

3. Justice and Righteousness.

a. This is infinite integrity acting toward others. God's

perfect righteousness is perfect, therefore demands perfect righteousness.

His judgments are perfect, therefore demanding perfection. Perfect

righteousness demands Bible doctrine in the soul to understand His essence.

b. Justice administers the penalty which righteousness demands.

c. In perfect righteousness the divine love for integrity is

revealed. In perfect righteousness divine love exists, but in justice

divine love is expressed.

d. In justice the divine hatred for sin is revealed. Justice

demands justice.

e. In the function of the essence of God divine perfect

righteousness and justice always precede divine love. God cannot love

personally that which is not perfect.

f. God is not arbitrary in any way. Integrity demands integrity.

perfect righteousness demands perfect righteousness. Justice demands

justice. God's nature cannot change, we must change. He must demand

integrity and punish both sin and evil as long as He is what He is.

g. His penalties are not vindictive, but vindicating to His

essence and person. With unchangeable sin and evil there is unchangeable

condemnation and judgment. But in grace God provided through salvation all

that He demands. And through Bible doctrine and the rebound technique, sin

is handled for the believer.

h. In relation to Himself, His personality and spirituality are

supreme. But in relation to man, His integrity is supreme.



E. Other Characteristics of God.

1. The freedom of God. God must be consistent with Himself. He

cannot compromise His essence. The incarnation was the only way the free

will of God could provide salvation for mankind.

2. The affection of God. These are anthropopathisms. God repents,

Gen 6:6; loves and hates, Rom 9:13; gets angry, Rom 1:18; has scorn, Ps 2:4;

has benevolence, Rom 8:32; has compassion, Lam 3:33. God is absolutely happy

in Himself with absolute freedom from fear, anxiety, regret, foreboding, or

annoyance.

3. The authority of God.

a. God's absolute authority is over possible things and actual

things.

b. Over possible things God is sovereign in that He leaves them

as only possible and not actual, or has destined them to be yet future.

c. In this realm He renders no account to others but acts in

conformity with His own perfect character. God isn't responsible to anyone.

d. In relation to existing things God is the final and absolute

authority, Ps 145:14; Mt 20:15; 1 Tim 6:15.

e. The authority of God over creatures rests upon three facts:

(1) Because God is the creator. This authority extends to

every creature and to all things. However, it is restricted by His own

perfection. The right to save or punish belongs to God, but He restricts it

by His own essence. The right to discipline or reward the believer belongs

to God but is restricted by His own essence. God is compelled to discipline

the reversionist under the influence of evil, just as He is compelled to

reward and bless the believer with maximum Bible doctrine in the soul. This

is consistent with His own essence and plan. The creator's absolute and

sovereign ownership of all things is contrasted with secondary rights which

men recognize within the sphere of their own relationship. That is, the

cattle, gold, silver all belong to God, Ps 50:10, even though men recognize

among themselves the private ownership of property. This authority of God

rests on His infinite perfection.

(2) Because of redemption. God has purchased us; we are

bought with a price.

(3) Because of Bible doctrine. The authority of God is

related to the amount of Bible doctrine in your soul. God's authority is

paramount with the mature believer. The more metabolized doctrine you

possess, the more authority God has over you.



F. God's Essence Box.



SOVEREIGNTY OMNISCIENCE

RIGHTEOUSNESS OMNIPRESENCE

JUSTICE OMNIPOTENCE

LOVE IMMUTABILITY

ETERNAL LIFE VERACITY.



G. Summary of Divine Justice.

1. God is fair; it is impossible for God to be unfair.

2. Justice administers the penalty which perfect righteousness

demands. Perfect righteousness and justice always go together, Deut 32:4; 2

Chr 19:7; Job 37:23; Ps 19:9, 50:6, 58:11, 89:14; Isa 45:21; Rom 3:26, 12:3;

Heb 10:30-31.

3. Divine justice is portrayed in salvation. And the issue in

salvation is divine justice accepted or rejected.

4. You get divine justice sooner or later. You get it sooner by

believing in Christ. You get it later by the lake of fire.

5. Sin is not the issue in salvation, justice is. Because of

propitiation, God is now free to pardon and justify sinful humanity who

appropriates the saving grace of God by faith in Christ. God is free to

save those who believe because of His justice.

6. The basis for the unbeliever's indictment at the Last Judgment is

evil and human good, not sin, Rev 20:12-15. Evil produces more good than

sin. Evil is Satan's policy. Justice prevailed at the cross and will again

prevail at the Last Judgment.