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The Love of God toward Grace Policy . .
Summary of the Love of God . .
Veracity and Faithfulness. . .
Veracity & Arrogance of Ignorance
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Omnipresence & Creation of Man . .
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Categories of the Knowledge of God . .
Omniscience & The Divine Decree . .
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Omniscience & The Creation Plan of God
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Omniscience & the Essence of God
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Omniscience & Problem Solutions
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Omniscience & Judgment or Punishment
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Wisdom, Bible Doctrine & the Plan of God . .
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Wisdom & Divine Imputations . .
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Omnipotence & The Virgin Birth . .
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Omnipotence & Efficacious Grace
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Omnipotence & Provision of Salvation
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Omnipotence & the Spiritual Life
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Omnipotence and Equal Opportunity . .
Omnipotence & Equivalent Power . .
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Misuse of Power in the Spiritual Life
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Spiritual Life, Omnipotence & the Pastor Teacher
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Omnipotence & the Resurrection of Jesus
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Omnipotence & Royal Family Resurrection . .
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Omnipotence & Christocentric Dispensations . .
Omnipotence of God in the Church Age
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Basic Function of the Essence of God . .
Postulates of Divine Integrity
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40 Divine Assets for the Spiritual Life . .
Historical Trends Summary Outline . .
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The word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to
the dividing asunder of the soul and the spirit, and of the joints and the marrow, and is a critic of thoughts and intents of the heart. (Heb 4:12) All Scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness; that the man of God might be mature, thoroughly furnished unto all good works. (2Tim 3:16-17) Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. (2Tim. 2:1) This compilation of doctrinal principles is dedicated to my pastor of some 40+ years, Col. R. B.
Thieme Jr., who, in my humble opinion, is one of, if not the, foremost theologian of the 20th century and most likely many others as well. Without his consistent undaunted dogmatic
teaching of Bible Doctrine this document would not have been possible and I would most likely NOT have a clue about the Christian Way of Life. In his physical presence, mental acuity, supreme dedication to the word of God and overriding dogmatic veracity in the presentation of the doctrines of the bible he has been a life changing inspiration to myself and literally hundreds of thousands of other believers throughout the world. I, and these others I am sure, look forward to the honor of standing in ranks before the Judgment Seat of Jesus Christ as representatives of the “Berachah Battalion” who have grown up in the Spiritual Life as a result of his phenomenal grace teaching.
I would like to give special thanks to Pastor Robert Lyon, South Part Bible Church, who has been a constant stimulus and encouragement to me in putting this and other materials together as a consolidation of bible doctrine to enable others to assimilate or review.
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Before a believer begins to study anything related to bible doctrine he must name or acknowledge his sins privately to God the Father in order to be forgiven those and all other sins, to be placed again into fellowship with God and under the teaching and guiding ministry of God the Holy Spirit. 1st John 1:9 states, “If we confess (name or cite) our (known) sins, He is faithful and justified to forgive us our (known) sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness (unknown sins).” This will put the believer into fellowship with God and under the Filling of God the Holy Spirit in a state of Genuine Humility and teachability and ready to learn Bible Doctrine. If you have never personally expressed faith alone in The Lord Jesus, The Christ alone the issue is NOT naming your sins. The issue is nonmeritorious faith alone in Christ alone. “He who believes in the Son has Eternal Life; But he who does not obey the command to believe in the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.” (John 3:18, John 3:36)
If we are totally objective we must admit to having delusions about some things in life at some time. For myself there is ONE thing in this life which I have no delusions about, Bible Doctrine. Were it not for the teaching ministry of Col. R. B. Thieme Jr. and his consistent clear, concise and DOGMATIC presentation of the doctrines of the bible I would know nothing of orthodox fundamental biblical doctrine and the Christian Way of Life. I have no delusion about my knowledge, calling or spiritual gift; and, recognize that I could not do what he and many other pastors have done, and continue to do, in the constant studying and teaching of doctrine to their congregations. Over the years I have learned innumerable principles from these studies by Pastor Thieme. One of the most important things I have learned has been that “One’s rate of learning MUST exceed one’s rate of FORGETTING” in order to advance in the
Spiritual Life or to maintain one’s level of spiritual growth. This amplifies the necessity therefore of constant consistent Post Salvation Epistemological Rehabilitation through Perception, Cognition, Inculcation and Metabolization of Bible Doctrine under the Grace Apparatus for Perception and Filling of God the Holy Spirit and ultimately the application of it to life. It is my desire that this document be a source of consolidated doctrine to fulfill that very purpose.
This is a compilation from my notes on the principles directly derived from the lessons taught by Col. R. B. Thieme Jr., and reference materials by Lewis Sperry Chafer. Many of the lessons from which this compilation is derived, having been taught many years prior to the time of my compiling this document, still, to this day, reflect information which exists and is essential in the Spiritual Life and which is generally ignored and unrecognized by the Christian. All of these lessons were taught after many years of Pastor Thieme serving in his ministry of Studying and Teaching Orthodox Fundamental Biblical Christian Doctrine according to an Isagogical, Exegetical and Categorical method. With this in mind be conscious of the fact that some of the terminology, doctrines and principles presented here will be, at best, difficult or obscure for the new or infant believer. It took the Colonel many years to come to the point of being able to extract these doctrines and principles from the original languages of scripture so it should reasonably require some years of study by the believer under his type of ministry to be able to understand what is herein contained.
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If you have read any of the other compilations I have put together you will notice some similarities or blatant duplication here internally and from some of these other documents as well. I have chosen to do this to establish a proper background to enable a better understanding of this subject matter. In effect this and all the other compilations of Bible Doctrine I have been instrumental in producing are designed to be STUDIED not simply read through. This can be accomplished by reading the document through and then returning to
areas which require further study or taking individual chapters and reading and reviewing the terminology and references until they are inculcated. The reality is that to study a subject you must read it and then read it again and check all the references and definitions of terms not totally understood and then it must be read again and again until it is inculcated. This is STUDYING to enable the content of the material to be available for future application to situations and circumstances which may arise in one’s life. To facilitate this understanding on the part of the reader I have interlinked segments of this document to enable the reader to review or learn or recall terminology, concepts, principles and doctrines while reading other parts. I have also included a Glossary of terms which I believe will help in this endeavor.
Whenever I use references to terms found in the Greek, Hebrew, Latin or Aramaic languages I indicate them with the abbreviations of (gr), (heb), (lat) or (aram) as a precursor to the terms.
I strongly suggest that the believer interested in learning Bible Doctrine and advancing in the Spiritual Life to Spiritual Maturity acquire a copy of Thieme’s Bible Doctrine Dictionary.
As one would expect, I have entered some opinions and concepts of my own from what I have
learned from my studies of Pastor Thieme’s teaching of Bible Doctrine in later lessons, from later years and from life experiences and other current materials regarding ongoing historical and social trends. Therefore, one should understand that I have not strictly adhered to the organizational system regarding the Essence of God which the Colonel had taught. The effort here on my part has been to consolidate a maximum number of principles related to God’s Character or Essence in order to provide a place where believers might go to acquire or review, concise but detailed, concepts related this subject. However, nothing contained herein is ever to be construed to have been originated by my personal abilities to extract doctrines from the scripture. Neither is this to be a substitute for consistent daily study under one’s “right”
Pastor Teacher in order to develop the momentum needed to reach and hold on to spiritual maturity, the ultimate objective of the Spiritual Life. If more details and reference passages are desired on the Essence of God, or how these principles were derived the original lessons can be ordered from R. B. Thieme Jr. Bible Ministries, P.O. Box 460829, Houston Tx. 77056-8829, or by phoning 713-621-3740.
My objective in presenting this compilation of Bible Doctrine does not include, nor am I concerned as to, whether it is considered good or bad, liked or disliked as a message but
whether God the Holy Spirit can use the doctrinal content in the life of YOU the believer
reading it. I have nothing to prove to anyone in life and it is only getting the message through to the YOU, the reader, that is important to me so that there is something for God the Holy Spirit to use as you progress in your personal spiritual growth. I have, in fact, attempted to organize these principles into discrete segments or categories. However, above all other subjects the Character or Essence of God cannot be segmented or separated into discrete areas Page #13 of 430 - Return to the Table of Contents
AND it is clearly impossible to thoroughly comprehend it by the human mind. Please! Keep in mind that understanding the Essence of God is essential for the individual believer to be able to live in this world ruled by Satan and function with complete contentment and total stability and security. This will allow the individual believer to complete the execution of the Protocol Plan of God in his lifetime and thereby glorify God as he becomes the recipient of his own individualized Escrow Super – Grace blessings. It should be obvious then that these characteristics of God resist any attempt at separation into singular units being intricately interlocked into the totality of his being. Also keep in mind that the principles elucidated by Pastor Thieme in his studies of the Character or Essence of God were taught at varying times with different background context and they must be interrelated to other aspects of Bible Doctrine and the Plan of God with which they interact and also with the development and deployment of the 10 Problem Solving Devices provided by God and building of the Edification
Complex of the Soul as well. With this in mind understand that there must be PROGRESSIVE
development of the principles and functions of the Essence of God and one aspect of His
Character CANNOT EVER be separated from all parts of his Essence and individually studied
without relating it’s impact on and from, very often, several others. However, as the Colonel might have said on occasion: “REPETITION, REPETITION, REPETITION IS INVALUABLE SO
GET USED TO IT AND ENJOY IT.
This document can be read and studied from beginning to end but it does not have to be. It can also be studied and reviewed as individual chapters and segments for an understanding of the various aspects of the Character of God and its impact on the life of the believer.
Dr. Frank P. Ferraro
Additional Bible Doctrine Compilations Available:
Propaganda, Brainwashing & Psychological Warfare
Flexibility & Essentials in the Christian Way of Life
The Influence of Grace vs The Influence of Evil on the Soul
Counterinsurgency & War and the Christian
Working for God – How Good is GOOD ENOUGH!
Progression in the Spiritual Life
erlocking System of Arrogance 4 th E
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The Edification Complex of the Soul
Problem Solutions for the Christian
T he Power System of God, the D
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Introduction to Divine Essence
Because it is literally impossible for the human mind to know what God’s faculties are in
themselves, they are given the names of those powers that would be necessary in order for man to produce such effects, and then they are called such things as wisdom, understanding, and foreknowledge; yet at the same time one cannot but be sensible, that these faculties are of a nature altogether different from those of human beings, and that man has no direct and proper notion or conception of them. In the study of orthodox Judaeo-Christian theology it is logical to start with Israel. The special purpose of Israel was to guard God’s transcendence and omnipresence; it was for Christianity to develop the doctrines of the Godhead into the fulness, depth, and richness that is found in the revelation of the Incarnate Son of God. Human beings use thought to determine action and function. Thoughts can only be effectively formulated when there is sufficient Vocabulary to describe and define the thoughts. However, very often vocabulary can provide a definition for a thought or idea but the reality of the concept of the thought cannot be truly comprehended. Some examples would include, Infinity, Eternity, Perfection, and many others. The point is that Infinite can be defined as: • Without limits
• Boundless
• Endless
• Inestimable
The most appropriate definition may be, Inestimable, because Man himself is finite and cannot really comprehend or estimate the Infinite. The human mind, which is restricted to many
limits and constraints, is in reality unable to understand or comprehend the true nature of Infinity? So here in this document is put together a compilation of thoughts, principles and definitions concerning the Essence of God. The purpose of it is to consolidate the thoughts and ideas which God himself has revealed to man concerning his Character or Essence in order to provide man with information he can, in a basic way, comprehend about the Nature of God.
This information is provided to give a basic understanding of God to the believer but the
reality is that it is impossible to comprehend God because He, Himself, is INFINITE
PERFECTION. There is no Frame of Reference in man’s intelligence to help him understand or see the perfect Essence of God. However, there is a parallel between the Essence of God and Essence of Man. The Essence of God is unseen as is the Essence of man in the human soul
and the soul resides in the human brain functions and although the physiological parts can be seen, the soul just like the Essence of God cannot. The Essence of God has many Attributes as does the Essence of the soul of man and both are real but unseen and invisible. To complicate things further these Infinite Perfect characteristics of God MUST AT ALL TIMES work in total coordination with one another else God would not be GOD! The real problem with man gaining an understanding of God is found in, “God made man in his own image, and man has
returned the compliment”, Voltaire.
The believer should understand clearly the purpose and objective of studying divine Essence:
• #1 – to ensure the individual has properly made Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of
God and obtained eternal salvation, an eternal relationship with God through the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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• #2 – to ensure that those who believe in Christ understand the protocol plan of God as a result of persistent postsalvation epistemological rehabilitation by Perception, Cognition, Inculcation and Metabolization of Bible Doctrine.
• #3 – to ensure the believer has the best possible understanding of Eternity, the true
meaning of death, life beyond the grave, and to lift the veil with regard to the eternal
state so the believer can see how the soul functions after death.
In this document there are ten major divine Attributes of God which will be considered along with many other characteristics of God as well:
• The Sovereignty of God.
• The Justice of God
• The Righteousness of God
• The Love of God.
• The Eternal Life of God
• The Omnipresence of God.
• The Omniscience of God.
• The Omnipotence of God.
• The Veracity of God
• The Immutability of God
Other Characteristics will include:
• The Happiness of God.
• The Simplicity of God
• The Unity of God
• The Faithfulness of God.
• The Grace of God.
• The Personality of God
• The Eternity of God
• The Immensity of God
• The Infinity of God
• The Perfection of God
• The Self-Existence of God
• The Spirituality of God
• The Affections of God
• The Authority of God
• The Freedom of God
• The Plenitude of God
The Essence of God & Mankind
God’s point of reference with mankind is and has always been the Righteousness of God while the point of contact with man is and has always been the Justice of God both expressing the
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Ish and Ishah both aligned with the Standards and Values of the Righteousness of God therefore the Love of God through his Grace Policy ONLY motivated or stimulated the Justice of God to provide beneficial blessing for them. This was God’s motivation to provide for man through the point of contact with man, the Justice of God, everything he needed to continue to exist because he had only 1 way to violate the perfect standards and values of the Righteousness of
God, eating from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God’s point of reference with mankind after the fall of mankind is still the Righteousness of God and his point of contact still remains the Justice of God. The requirement for man to have harmonious rapport with God is for him to satisfy the perfect standards and values of the Righteousness of God, so that the Justice of God does not have to use the entirety of his whole life on earth for implementing for him never ending temporal Divine Discipline.
The Righteousness of God is expressed through the Love of God and is the base or foundation for the Grace of God developed from the interaction of the Love of God with the Sovereignty of God, while the Justice of God is the provider under Grace. Therefore, the Righteousness of God, the Standards and Values of God and the Point of Reference with mankind, directs the Justice of God through the Love of God and Sovereignty of God based on the Grace Policy of God acting as the activator or the catalyst for both blessing and discipline from God. Therefore, one cannot contradict or oppose the Righteousness of God or Justice of God without destroying the Grace of God and turning Grace into legalism derived from Evil.
The Essence or Character of God vs The Attributes of God
The believer must always remember and consider that the Attributes or Essence of God presents a subject so vast and complex and so beyond the range of man’s finite faculties to understand that any attempt to classify them must be only approximate as to accuracy or completeness. In addition, the Attributes of the Essence of God are so interrelated and interdependent that the exact segmentation or separation of them is difficult if not wholly impossible. The Attributes of God are eternal and there never was a time when each member of the Trinity did not possess all of the divine Attributes.
• Attributes are those qualities and perfections which belong to God, 1 God in 3 persons
▪ The sum total of God’s Attributes is His Personal and Collective Essence.
▪ The Attributes and Essence of God belong to three persons:
• God the Father
• God the Son
• God the Holy Spirit
• Who are collectively one God in Essence.
◦ The attributes of God form an interwoven and interdependent communion of facts and
forces which harmonize in the Person of God. An omission or slighting of any of
these, or any disproportionate emphasis upon any one of them cannot but lead to
fundamental error of immeasurable magnitude.
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impugned the character of God with his Appeal at the Angelic Conflict Trial for his revolution.
• Essence is that which is one’s own, a substance that belongs to one, the substance, the
being, the inner nature, inner qualities or Attributes which are one’s own and when
applied to God its characteristics are eternal and inherent in Him.
▪ The Essence of God equals His being or substance plus His combined Attributes.
▪ Essence is the inner nature, true substance, intrinsic nature, the qualities or the
combined Attributes of a person invisible in many cases, manifest in some cases.
▪ Essence is the basic constituent of a thing, the intrinsic nature of something, that
in its being which underlies all outward manifestations of something and is both
permanent and unchangeable.
▪ Essence is the existence or actual being and implies identity, therefore, it refers to
the qualities or Attributes of a thing.
▪ Essence related to God refers to the qualities or Attributes of God which have
always existed and is that which always remains stable and unchangeable.
The difficulty of the study of Divine Essence is that it brings the finite human mind into constant contemplation and concentration on the Infinite. God is invisible, but God is also personal. Even though He is invisible, He is living, an active spirit, and eternal, infinite, and unchanging in existence. Therefore, God is said to be immanent and transcendent as a spiritual being.
Distinctions regarding the Attributes of God
There are three major distinctions regarding God’s characteristics or Attributes:
• Eternal
◦ God is Eternal and he has possessed all of his Attributes eternally there never being a
time when any member of the Trinity did not possess all of the divine Attributes.
• Functional
◦ God’s Attributes are Functional and produce Action by God and His attributes have
the capacity for operation and are functional under 3 subcategories:
▪ Personal toward each member of the Godhead based on His attitude toward perfect
righteousness in the other members of the Trinity and toward every creature having the imputed righteousness of God.
▪ Impersonal toward all creatures without perfect righteousness. (John 3:16)
▪ Personal toward Himself in divine self-esteem based on His own Absolute Righteousness and any other creature possessing this Absolute Righteousness which
is the basis for the unique spiritual life of the Church Age for the Royal Family of
God.
• Directional
◦ The Attributes of God must have a direction toward which they function and this
occurs in 3 subcategories:
▪ Responsibility of the Attributes of God is focused within the Righteousness of God
which is directed toward all creatures regarding their successes or failures in the
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Plan of God, including the sins of the human race, where responsibility denotes something within one’s power to control.
• God the Father had the responsibility of knowing all sins of human history and
making the sovereign decision to put them into the Divine Decree so that as
part of the Salvation Provision for mankind He had the responsibility of imputing them to the perfect Humanity of The Lord Jesus, The Christ on the
Cross.
• Jesus Christ took the responsibility of doing something in his humanity to provide the potential for man to regain a relationship with God by receiving
the judicial imputation of and the real judgment for ALL of those sins which
included:
◦ Unlimited Substitutionary Atonement to result in Propitiation
◦ Reconciliation
◦ Redemption
• God the Holy Spirit has the responsibility for revealing and Empowering the
Plan of God and making the information concerning the potential for salvation
perspicuous to the unbeliever and the nonmeritorious expression of faith alone
in the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ alone efficacious for eternal salvation.
▪ Contact of the Attributes of God is focused in the Justice of God toward all creatures and in the Human Race toward the unbeliever for Salvation and toward
the spiritual believer in divine blessing and toward the carnal believer in divine
discipline.
• Contact with the unbeliever is the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord
Jesus, The Christ for all human sins by which spiritually dead mankind has the
potential to enter into association with God through nonmeritorious faith alone
in The Lord Jesus, The Christ alone by choosing to engage in Salvation Adjustment to God.
• Contact with both spiritual and carnal believers is through the Grace of God
motivated or initiated by the Love of God and Sovereignty of God for the
Justice of God to distribute Logistical Grace support for their entire lifetime to
keep them alive to have the equality of opportunity for complete execution of
the Protocol Plan of God and to provide for them the necessary assets needed
to live with God in Eternity.
• Contact with the carnal believer is through the Grace of God motivated or initiated by the Love of God and Sovereignty of God for the justice of God
administering ‘family punishment’ for his decisions to leave the Plan of God for
the Plan of Satan. (Heb 12:6)
• Contact with the spiritually advancing believer is through the Grace of God motivated or initiated by the Love of God and Sovereignty of God for the
Justice of God to distribute his very own Escrow Super – Grace blessings if and
when he fulfills the Escrow Requirements of reaching Maturity Adjustment to
the Justice of God.
▪ Motivation and Reference of the Attributes of God is through the Love of God:
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• Motivation is the desire of God.
◦ The motivation of God is to endorse the believer to direct his attention to
the post salvation spiritual life of the Church Age by the provision based on
the Grace of God through the Justice of God of the assets needed for spiritual
growth.
◦ The motivation of God for the carnal believer is therefore to return him to
the endorsed course of action by engaging punitive Divine Discipline from
the Justice of God.
◦ The motivation of God for the unbeliever is to provide for him protection
for living in this world ruled by Satan as the Laws of Divine Establishment
and Divine Institutions and Opportunity to gain entrance into the Plan of
God by Adjustment to God and have Eternal Salvation and live with Him.
• Reference is the directing of attention to something important, providing a recourse for the purpose of gaining information, directing attention to
something of personal interest, to endorse a person or course of action.
◦ New Testament Mystery Bible doctrine provided by God for man is the access to the infallible Principles and Plan of God which can only be derived
from accurate expository Bible teaching for the purpose of information about
the unique spiritual life of the Church Age.
◦ The endorsed course of action is thus related to Virtue, both Motivational Virtue and Functional Virtue, derived from the accumulation of Metabolized
Bible Doctrine in the Right Lobe of the Stream of Consciousness of the Soul.
Constitutional Attributes
The constitutional attributes of God are predicables of His essential Being and are not communicated to other beings. The fact is that they are peculiar to God and absent in all others and this creates a difficulty not met within the study of other attributes which are, to some degree, reflected in the creature’s sphere. Man cannot by analogy reason from his ideals or Frame of Reference when the constitutional attributes are investigated. These are abstract, theoretical, and abstruse, so far as human experience is involved. These arise outside the Perfection of His personal attributes and are equally a reality of each of the Integrity (Holiness), Love, Justice and Righteousness of God, and all other attributes which are all infinite in their scope.
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SIMPLICITY – is that the Divine Being is uncompounded, incomplex, and indivisible.
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In contrast to popular thinking, complexity is not the highest ideal in any
being.
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Simplicity is in opposition to material composition, whether mechanical,
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It is negation of the relation of substance and property, essence and mode.
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Therefore, the human soul is simple, because it is not composed of
elements, parts, or organs.
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However, the human soul is complex, since there is in it a distinction between essence and properties, and successive modes or states of existence.
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However, God is infinite, eternal, self-existent from eternity, necessarily the
same without succession and in him essence, and property, and mode are one.
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He always is what he is; and his various states of intellect, emotion, and
volition are not successive and transient but coexistent and permanent; and he
is what he is essentially, and by the same necessity that he exists.
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Whatever is in God, whether thought, emotion, volition, or act, is God.
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UNITY – God is one in Himself.
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Though God is a Spirit, He could be more than pure Spirit and yet retain His
unity.
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Unity as applied to God refers to God as one essence.
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This concept is convincingly and adequately stated in “that we worship one
God in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the persons nor dividing the
substance; for there is one person of the Father, another of the Son, and another of
the Holy Spirit; but the Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit is
all one; the glory equal, the majesty coeternal. Therefore, the Father is God, the
Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God; and yet there are not three Gods, but one
God”.
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The unity of God does not determine what God is in Himself but has to do
only with His MODE OF EXISTENCE.
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INFINITY – God being infinite is therefore not finite or limited in any way.
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The the infinity of God relates to all attributes in that they are what they are
to an infinite degree, without termination.
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God transcends all limitations which time or space may impose on man.
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His knowledge is comprised of knowing all things perfectly.
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His power is able to bring all or any things to pass, even to create as He