Definition of God (2 of 5 notes)

Part Three
Theology Proper: 18 THE BIBLICAL VIEW OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

This definition includes both the substance or essence of God’s Being and His attributes. Theologians differ in their understanding of what constitutes essence and attributes. Thiessen, for example, states that some of the so-called attributes are not attributes at all, strictly speaking, but are “different aspects of the divine substance.’’² He includes spirituality, self-existence, immensity, and eternity as aspects of the Divine essence.

2            Henry C. Thiessen, Systematic Theology (Grand Rapids: Win. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1951), p. 119.

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