Assertion: god | /r/HasProperty | free
Facets:
value: entirely
type: DEGREE
value: from all attitudes
type: OTHER
value: to act in conformity
type: PURPOSE
value: from diminution
type: OTHER
value: from decay
type: OTHER
value: from all accession
type: OTHER
value: from all growth
type: OTHER
value: as spirit
type: OTHER
value: from all succession of time
type: TEMPORAL
value: from all temporal limitations
type: OTHER
value: without substance
type: OTHER
value: without a material body
type: OTHER
value: from the following eighteen imperfections
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Gods are said to be free from the following eighteen imperfections:
text: As Spirit, God is without a material body or substance (incorporeal), without physical parts or passions and therefore free from all temporal limitations (Luke 24:39), invisible and incorruptible (Col. 1:15; 1 Tim.
text: It means that the nature of God is without beginning or end, (b) that God is free from all succession of time, and (c) that God contains within Himself the cause of time.
text: Immutability “is that perfection of God by which He is devoid of all change, not only in His Being, but also in His perfections, and in His purposes and promises … and is free from all accession or diminution and from all growth or decay in
text: Although some take this to mean that God is "without emotions whether of joy, sorrow, pain or grief", most interpret this as meaning that God is free from all attitudes "which reflect instability or lack of control.
text: Whereas "the Greeks assumed the gods were 'free' to become demons if they so chose," the God of the Bible "is 'free' to act only in conformity to His nature.
text: Whereas "the Greeks assumed the gods were 'free' to become demons if they so chose," the God of the Bible "is 'free' to act only in conformity to His nature.
text: Being entirely free, he did not have to create, but did so as an act of love.
text: Since to be free is to be undetermined by anything outside oneself, God is free because nothing can be outside him; and God alone is free because everything within the whole is the way it is by necessity.
text: Since to be free is to be undetermined by anything outside oneself, God is free because nothing can be outside him; and God alone is free because everything within the whole is the way it is by necessity.