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#162 – Eternal & Immutable

#162 – Eternal & Immutable

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#162 – Eternal & Immutable

Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss what it means that God is Eternal and Immutable.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

  • What’s an incommunicable attribute? How is this different from a communicable attribute?
  • Am I an eternal creature?
  • What does eternal mean?
  • Why is this crucial to our view of God?
  • What verse identifies that God is eternal?
  • What does it mean to say that God is immutable?
  • Why does suggesting that God changes present problems?
  • What about passages that seem to indicate that God didn’t know or changed his mind?
  • Why is this good news for us?

Helpful Definitions:

  • Genesis 1-2, 1 Timothy 1:17, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Psalm 92, Revelation 21:6, Colossians 1:15-20, Genesis 18:16-33, Exodus 32:7-14, James 1:17, Malachi 3:6, Numbers 23:19, Exodus 3:14, Psalm 90:12
  • Incommunicable Attribute: Things that are true about God, that are only true of God and are not true of anyone else.
  • Communicable Attribute: Things that are true about God, that can also become true of us.
  • Eternal: Not bound by time.
  • Deism: The belief that God created something and then stepped away from his creation. God is absent and careless about his creation. 
  • Pantheism: The belief that God is a 1:1 correlation with His creation. God is powerless because he is his creation.
  • Immutable: From eternity past to eternity future God is unchanging. God is always the same.
  • Omniscient: All things are known effortlessly and instantly.
  • Omnipotent: All powerful.
  • Archetypal Knowledge: The knowledge that God has of Himself alone.
  • Ectypal Knowledge: The knowledge that God offers His creatures that we can have through general revelation through His creation, through special revelation in scripture, and in Christ.
  • Anthropomorphic: A way of expressing, in humanly understandable terms, something that is true.

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