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Holy. Holy , Holy is the Lord God the Almighty...I'm about to start teaching a small group through the attributes of God (not the book by AW Pink...). In your opinion, which attribute should be taught / looked at first and why? I've decided to start with His eternality.
I always equated the perfections of God with His attributes. Am I wrong in this?Perfection defines all his other attributes.
each attribute IS God's being
These were good reminders! It's so easy to slip into an academic treatment of the subject...(Read: Prayer needed)what God is.
The Shorter Catechism, "What is God," begins the answer with, "God is a Spirit."
I uploaded the above SCQ 4 from Fisher's Catechism. It has 170 sub-questions and answers.
Is "first revealed in Scripture" acceptable?Any distinctions as to which attribute is "most/prior/best" is a non-starter
Is "first revealed in Scripture" acceptable?
I suppose. I don't see why not.
So far as one understands it is ectypal and not archetypal....like we can comprehend God as He is in the divine sense which we cannot.
I do not know if this would be the best litmus test, as it were. Then again, if it were so, God's aseity would be the first revealed attribute: "In the beginning, God..."Is "first revealed in Scripture" acceptable?