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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