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Pure Dynamic Actuality

God is a pure being without any passive potential (the ability to receive change due to his nature). He cannot be anything more or less than He already is (Exodus 3:14; John 8:58).

Aseity

God is self- existent without any dependence on another for His very being. God is life and the ultimate source of all life (Exodus 3;14; John 1:4).

Simplicity

God is one without any parts. He is uncompounded, incomplex and indivisible, unique, and essentiality a Spirit being (John 1:18; 4:24; 1 Timothy 1:17; 6:15-16).

Unity

God is one (Deuteronomy 6:4; 1 Corinthians 8:6).

Infinity

God is without beginning, limits, termination, or finitude (1 Kings 8:27; Psalm 145:3; Acts 17:24).

Eternality

God endures eternally, wholly above and separate from all the succession of time. God’s eternity (ever-present now) encompasses all the characteristics of time (past, present, future) in one moment (Genesis 21:33; Psalm 90:2).

Immutability

Though God’s activities (creation), change, He is unchangeable in His being (Numbers 23:19; Psalm 102:27; Malachi 3:6; James 1:17).

Omnipresence

God is everywhere present. He is active to and present at everything simultaneously, whether in time or eternity (Psalm 139:7-12); Jeremiah 23:23-24).

Omniscience (Includes omnisapience, or wisdom)

God knows all actual and possible things immediately and from all eternality – including future human choices. The only things God cannot know are actual impossibilities like “square circles” or “infinite finites.” He simply knows these things as impossibilities according to His infinite and eternal mode of
Being.

Omnipotence

God is all powerful but cannot do anything contrary to His nature, such as lie, deny Himself, change His mind, contradict Himself, or cease to exist (Malachi 3:6; 1 Samuel 15:19; Matthew 19:26; Hebrews 6:18;7:21; Revelation 19:6).

Sovereignty

God is the supreme ruler, independent of any power or authority outside Himself.

Chart taken from Charts of Apologetics and Christian Evidences by H. WAYNE HOUSE. Copyright 2006 by H. Wayne House. Used by permission of Zondervan. To find out more info about Charts of Apologetics and Christian Evidences, see http://www.Zondervan.com. ISBN# 031021937X

Theology : God's Metaphysical Attributes Chart - Classical Theism