Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss what it means that God is Self-Existent & Self-Sufficient.
Questions Covered in This Episode:
- What’s an incommunicable attribute of God?
- Who created God?
- What does God need to survive?
- What do we mean when we say that God is “self-existent?” How is this different from saying God is “self-sufficient?”
- What is Aseity?
- How do we know, from scripture, that God is self-existent and self-sufficient?
- Why is this crucial to our doctrine of God?
- Why is it good news?
Helpful Definitions:
- Incommunicable Attribute: Things that are true about God, that are only true of God and are not true of anyone else.
- Communicable Attribute: Things that are true about God, that can also become true of us.
- Self-existent: God is the origin of all things, uncreated.
- Self-sufficient: God is lacking in nothing, He needs nothing.
- Independent: Not dependent on anything in order to exist.
- Aseity: God is a se, or has aseity: He is self-existent and self-sufficient.
Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
- Genesis 1:1, Romans 11, Acts 17:24-28
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