THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD (1 of 6 notes)

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

Numerous classifications of the attributes have been made by theologians.     Chafer deals with the subject under two main headings:

A. Personality

1. Omniscience

2. Sensibility:

(a) Holiness,

(b) Justice,

(c) Love,

(d) Goodness,

(e) Truth.

3. Will:

(a) Freedom,

(b) Omnipotence.

B. Constitutional Attributes

1. Simplicity

2. Unity

3. Infinity

4. Eternity

5. Immutability

6. Omnipresence or Immensity

7. Sovereignty.³

3            Lewis Sperry Chafer, Systematic Theology (Dallas: Dallas Seminary Press, 1947), I, pp. 192-222.

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