#162 – Eternal & Immutable

Knowing Faith

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.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• “None Like Him” by Jen Wilkin
• “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise” by Jaron & Katherine Kamin

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