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70<br />

Theologians Categories Attributes<br />

Henry C. Thiessen<br />

Vernon D. Doerksen<br />

Augustus Hopkins Strong<br />

The Attributes of God:<br />

Varieties of Categorization<br />

(Enns, Handbook, 189-91)<br />

Non-Moral Omnipresence<br />

Omniscience<br />

Omnipotence<br />

Immutability<br />

Moral Holiness<br />

Righteousness and Justice<br />

Goodness and Mercy<br />

Truth<br />

Absolute/Immanent Spirituality: life, personality<br />

Infinity: self-existence, immutability, unity<br />

Perfection: truth, love, holiness<br />

Relative/Transitive Related to time and space:<br />

eternity, immensity<br />

Related to creation: omnipresence,<br />

omniscience, omnipotence<br />

Related to moral beings:<br />

truth and faithfulness<br />

mercy and goodness (transitive love),<br />

justice and righteousness<br />

(transitive holiness)<br />

(continued, p. 72)<br />

A Practical Challenge :<br />

"How can we turn our knowledge about God into knowledge of God? The rule for doing<br />

this is demanding but simple. It is that we turn each truth that we learn about God<br />

into matter for meditation before God, leading to prayer and praise to God."<br />

(J.I. Packer)

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