7 Attributes Of Our Exxageratively and Extravagantly Effective God

When I was searching for God's natural attributes, I only expected infinity and eternity to be found. However, I found something on the web that is far more complete than I can ever hope it to be. God's 7 natural attributes are infinity, eternity, immortality, immutability, omniscience, omnipresence and omnipotence.

1. INFINITY. God is infinite. He has no limitations nor imperfections. Man is limited by relations of time and space. He has mental and physical limitations and imperfections. Man is finite; God is infinite. God's powers are unlimited. He has universal and perfect relations with all other existence.

2. ETERNITY. God is eternal. There never was a time when God did not exist. He always was, always is, and always will be. Eternity is infinite time. Eternity extends in both directions. It is just as far backward into eternity as it is forward into eternity. For the believer, eternal life has a beginning but will have no ending. God, however, not only will live forever in the future, but also has lived forever in the past.

3. IMMORTALITY. God is immortal. He is not subject to death. That which is immortal is deathless, imperishable, incorruptible, indestructible, indissoluble. It never fades, never dies, never ends. It does not depreciate, decay, or corrode. It results in unending existence; it is exempt from death.

Some people claim that God is only living to the point where people believe Him, that whenever everyone ceases to do so, He shall perish. Little do they know that their deaths are imminent with the failure to hold onto God's words, and so the statement above might seem to be a paradoxical denial.

4. IMMUTABILITY. God is unchangeable. What He now is He always has been and always will be. God cannot change for the better because He is already best. He cannot change for the worse because He thereby would cease to be perfect. Infinite perfection is unchangeable.

All created things are subject to change and deterioration, but God remains always the same. Stars burn out, mountains wear away, buildings crumble; plants wither, flowers fade, animals die; metal rusts, food decays, machinery wears out. Mankind changes, suffers, and dies. In our changing universe, only God is unchangeable.

5. OMNISCIENCE. God is perfect in knowledge. God's mind is perfect. His knowledge is infinite, eternal, and complete.

6. OMNIPRESENCE. God is everywhere present. Wherever we are we can say, "God is here!" He is our nearest environment. One is no nearer to the presence of God on a mountain than he is in a cavern. Nearness to God is not a matter of geography. No point is nearer to God's presence than any other point. One needs not shout across the empty miles to an absent God. God is here; He can hear your faintest whisper. God is not everywhere present in the same sense. God is in heaven, through His power and presence He is everywhere present and acting.

7. OMNIPOTENCE. God is all powerful. He is almighty. His power is infinite. There is nothing that He cannot do. With Him all things are possible. The power of God is designated in the Bible as God's Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the impersonal power of God. The Bible uses the words power and spirit interchangeably. Every work that God does is performed through His power or Spirit.

(Adapted from Systematic Theology, by Alva Huffer, published by Church of God General Conference, Oregon, Illinois 61061, U.S.A.)