Assertion: god | /r/HasProperty | eternal
Facets:
value: as to his very essence
type: OTHER
value: begot the son
type: OTHER
value: above all
type: DEGREE
value: by an eternal generation
type: OTHER
value: of the holy spirit
type: OTHER
value: in christianity
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: God were Eternal" [ edit ]
text: Say: He is God, the One and Only; God, the Eternal, Absolute;
text: God is the eternal “now”; He is the “
text: In Christianity, God is the eternal being who created and preserves all things.
text: When related to time, He is called eternal.
text: He is the everlasting I AM.
text: Since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature–have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse” (Romans 1:20).
text: However, differences exist in that in Roman Catholic theology and teaching, God the Father is the eternal source of the Son (begot the Son by an eternal generation) and of the Holy Spirit (by an eternal procession from the Father and the Son) and the one who breathes the Holy Spirit with and through the Son, but the Eastern Orthodox consider the Spirit to proceed from the Father alone.
text: In Trinitarian theology, God the Father is the "arche" or "principium" (beginning), the "source" or "origin" of both the Son and the Holy Spirit, and is considered the eternal source of the Godhead.
text: Another perspective is offered from Lawrence Lafleur in his article, “If God Were Eternal”.
text: Theism generally holds that God exists realistically, objectively, and independently of human thought; that God created and sustains everything; that God is omnipotent and eternal; and that God is personal and interacting with the universe through, for example, religious experience and the prayers of humans.
text: Transcendence means that God is eternal and infinite, not controlled by the created world and beyond human events.
text: He is a living and active divine person who is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in His being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, truth, and love.
text: God is immutable and eternal and so is His essence.
text: Because God is eternal and knows all things in one eternal act, events that are future to man are an “eternal now” to God.
text: The Westminster Shorter Catechism's definition of God is merely an enumeration of his attributes: "God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.
text: God is eternal (Psalm 90:2).
text: Rowe mentions how Pike uses multiple arguments to disprove Anselm and another theologian of their own arguments about why God is eternal (Anselm was a theist who believed God was all knowing and eternal).
text: Lafleur believes if God was eternal, he could not be within time at all, he would have to be outside of it.
text: Thus, argues Lafleur, God would have no religious significance to us if he was eternal because then he wouldn't have any connection or hand in our fate.
text: There is ample biblical evidence that God is eternal, but the Bible is less clear on which of the two senses is true.
text: He is completely whole within himself, and he is eternal –
text: He is eternal—
text: Fourth, God is transcendent in the sense that He is eternal.
text: Deuteronomy 33:27 explains to us that God the Father is eternal.
text: Though God is eternal, perfect and transcendent above all, he is utterly, completely and wonderfully within every part of his Creation.
text: Therefore, for change to take place it must happen within the constraints of time; however, God is eternal and exists outside of the constraints of time (Psalm 33:11; 41:13; 90:2-4; John 17:5; 2 Timothy 1:9).
text: God must be eternal.
text: God must be eternal and simple, existing without multiplicity.
text: Arguments for the earlier view, that God is eternal but exists within time, include: personhood requires existence in time because only in time can there be intending, acting, knowing, remembering, and the like; it is difficult to explain how a timeless God can know or respond to events; and the notion of timeless eternity is incoherent.
text: God is eternal, and so is His plan.
text: The idea that God can be eternal leads us to the idea that maybe the universe is eternal, and, therefore, God doesn't need to exist at all.
text: Hence God is eternal, having never been created.
text: Since God is eternal, His kingdom is eternal.
text: Since He alone is eternal and self-existent and He alone is the Creator of all else, He is the fountain of all truth.
text: God is eternal
text: God is everlasting in nature (Isa. 40:28), which is to say, he is eternal as to his very essence (Rom.
text: Both Scripture and logic, then, in marvelous concert, testify to the fact that God is eternal.
text: God is described in the Quran as: "Say: He is God, the One; God, the Eternal, the Absolute; He begot no one, nor is He begotten; Nor is there to Him equivalent anyone.
text: Say: He is God, the One and Only; God, the Eternal, Absolute;