God, Limited

Topic Notes

Welcome!
• Definition: Aseity (from Latin a “from” and se “self”, plus -ity) refers to the property by which a being exists in and of itself, from itself, or exists as so-and-such of and from itself.
• What is God’s Aseity?
• Auto Pilot is not good
• Horizontal Cosmological Argument
  • 1. Whatever has a beginning to its existence, must have a cause
  • 2. The universe began to exist
  • 3. Therefore, the universe has a cause – a creator.
• Simply put: Something outside of the universe must have caused it to exist in the first place.
• Jeff’s “WE’RE NOT WELL!” story
• Why doesn’t God heal sometimes?
• 1 Corinthians 6:14
• What is Open Theism?/li>
• Open Theism leads to the idea of a limited God
• The story of Harold Kushner
• Exodus 3:13-15
• What is the meaning of “I AM”?
• When we speak of the attributes of God, it’s not like when we speak about attributes of us (i.e. hair color, eye color, etc.)
• God’s attributes don’t change
• God IS!
• Revelation 4:8
• God WAS! God IS! and God forever WILL BE
• Dave and the banana
• Psalms 90:2
• Everlasting to Everlasting… God exists beyond eternity, both past and future!
• conversely, the banana is GONE!
• Novatian, a Church father who lived around 250AD said “God has no origin”
• God has no limitations!
• Existence is something that God OWNS!
• God is the one who INVENTED limits
• God came from nowhere and is derived from nothing
• The fact that we are created shows that He exists
• He is an uncreated being
• We are desperately needy people
• Our entire existence is dependent upon God
• Contrast: God needs nothing / We are desperately needy
• We have limits / God does not
• John 8:56-59 (Jesus claims the title of “I AM”)
• In doing so, Jesus claims to be God
• Know that we had a beginning, and that is evidence that God exists.
• Whenever hearing theories that have to do with God being limited, be very skeptical.
• Worship God as the one and only being who has always, and will always, be.
• Believe in and trust God as more powerful than we could ever fathom, because everything (even limits) come from Him.

BIBLE CONTRADICTION

• The problem of forgiveness and blasphemy
• Luke 12:10 vs Romans 10:13

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