Eternity
God is not bound by time. Where we look at events in an order or succession God sees everything at the same time. This is why Paul and John, in Romans and Revelation, can speak of future events as if they have already happened. They have already happened in God's eyes.
Infinitude
Of course there are things that we do not know about God. This will always be true. But that does not mean that we come up with outlandish claims about who God might be. We must accept what God HAS revealed about himself while we wait for the full revelation in the future. (1 Cor 13:12)
Immutability
"God is spirit" (John 4:24). God always has been and always will be the same. When God "becomes" a man that does not change who he is. Jesus is fully God and fully man. He is the perfect unity between God(spirit) and man(flesh). This unity does not mean that God has changed.
Essentials: the attributes of God, the teaching of the Trinity, and Christology.
Corey,
ReplyDelete1. Good points, but it would have been preferable to respond using the words and logic of the verses. That way, you can both defend scripture and challenge others with your views.
2. Okay. But try a transitional thought that ties what we "dimly see" of his revealed truth with what we WILL come to know fully, later on. That is, God will not spring something on us that is at odds with what He has shown us.
3. Good, but you added John 4:24, which loses the force of 1 Cor. 15:45. Definite changes have taken place, but the Godhead remains the same, untouched by anything.