Episode #161 – Self-Existent & Self-Sufficient

Episode Summary:

Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss what it means that God is Self-Existent & Self-Sufficient

Questions Covered in This Episode:

  • What’s an incommunicable attribute of God?

  • Who created God?

  • What does God need to survive?

  • What do we mean when we say that God is “self-existent?” How is this different from saying God is “self-sufficient?”

  • What is Aseity?

  • How do we know, from scripture, that God is self-existent and self-sufficient?

  • Why is this crucial to our doctrine of God?

  • Why is it good news?

Helpful Definitions:

  • 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.

  • Self-existent: God is the origin of all things, uncreated.

  • Self-sufficient: God is lacking in nothing, He needs nothing.

  • Independent: Not dependent on anything in order to exist.

  • Aseity: God is a se, or has aseity: He is self-existent and self-sufficient.

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

  • Genesis 1:1, Romans 11, Acts 17:24-28

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