Episode: #77: The Character of God: “Incommunicable” Attributes (Kevin Hass & Jeff Mingee)

1. What does the word Theology mean? What is theology proper? 2. Does man have an inner sense of God? What does the Scripture say about this? 3. Can we fully know God as we think about Him being incomprehensible? Psalm 145:3 4. What are some true things we know about God? 5. Speaking of God’s attributes there are some that are incommunicable and some communicable. Could you explain what this means? 6. What does the “aseity” of God mean? What attribute is that referring to? 7. Does God ever change His mind? 8. Do you hold to impassability as an attribute of God? 9. How can God be eternal? What does the Scripture say about His infinitude? 10. Grudem says, “God is unlimited with respect to space.”  What attribute is this referring to and can you explain in more detail?

For Tertullian divine impassibility does not mean that God is without emotion, rather it means that God possesses emotions in a divine manner.

“God’s will is determined from within instead of being swayed from without. It safeguards the truth that the impulse alike in providential order and in redemption and sanctification come from the will of God.” 

~ G. L. Prestige, God in Patristic Thought (London: SPCK, 1969), 7.