Episode #162 – God is Eternal and Immutable

Episode Summary:

Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss what it means that God is Eternal and Immutable.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

  • What’s an incommunicable attribute? How is this different from a communicable attribute?

  • Am I an eternal creature?

  • What does eternal mean?

  • Why is this crucial to our view of God?

  • What verse identifies that God is eternal?

  • What does it mean to say that God is immutable?

  • Why does suggesting that God changes present problems?

  • What about passages that seem to indicate that God didn’t know or changed his mind?

  • Why is this good news for us?

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.

  • Eternal: Not bound by time.

  • Deism: The belief that God created something and then stepped away from his creation. God is absent and careless about his creation. 

  • Pantheism: The belief that God is a 1:1 correlation with His creation. God is powerless because he is his creation.

  • Immutable: From eternity past to eternity future God is unchanging. God is always the same.

  • Omniscient: All things are known effortlessly and instantly.

  • Omnipotent: All powerful.

  • Archetypal Knowledge: The knowledge that God has of Himself alone.

  • Ectypal Knowledge: The knowledge that God offers His creatures that we can have through general revelation through His creation, through special revelation in scripture, and in Christ.

  • Anthropomorphic: A way of expressing, in humanly understandable terms, something that is true.

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