What Are God's Attributes?

[GodsGrace]

That’s all? What about love, justice, morality, creativity, aesthetics, socially, spiritually?

Creativity is a good one Free!

God loves to create and He instilled in man the same love for creativity.
Some actually can create, like any type of artist, and some of us can only
appreciate the thing created, be it art, music, architecture, etc.

But God certainly did give us this attribute of Himself.

 

[GodsGrace]

I know you're right. I grew up seeing Godly attributes even in people who were avowed atheists. Traits such as mercy and hope for good things.

It doesn't bother me that a person who doesn't believe in God is thankless toward him for the feelings God gave him.

It can work both ways.
An atheist can have a wonderful marriage, for instance.
And a Christian can find himself in a problem.

How we use our gifts counts for a lot.

 

[journeymanisnothing]

It can work both ways.
An atheist can have a wonderful marriage, for instance.
And a Christian can find himself in a problem.

How we use our gifts counts for a lot.

I agree. I just meant humans have natural affection for each other whether they know it's a gift from God or not. God often goes unmentioned.
People can mock all they want at the precious gifts of conscience and feelings.
Teaching people they can't know God by the intellect he gave us is why there's so much confusion about him.
Can you imagine a father hugging his 4 year old and saying, God loves us like I love you" and the child not understanding him? Or saying, "Daddy, why are speaking like that? I don't understand you."

Where did this idea that Adam had no free will come from? I know being a sinner who can't do anything to come to God is something the devil wants people to believe.

the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated Jas.2:17 YLT

He's describing the Spirit of God. Even earthly fathers feel this way about their children.

 

[GodsGrace]

I agree. I just meant humans have natural affection for each other whether they know it's a gift from God or not. God often goes unmentioned.
People can mock all they want at the precious gifts of conscience and feelings.
Teaching people they can't know God by the intellect he gave us is why there's so much confusion about him.
Can you imagine a father hugging his 4 year old and saying, God loves us like I love you" and the child not understanding him? Or saying, "Daddy, why are speaking like that? I don't understand you."

Where did this idea that Adam had no free will come from? I know being a sinner who can't do anything to come to God is something the devil wants people to believe.

the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated Jas.2:17 YLT

He's describing the Spirit of God. Even earthly fathers feel this way about their children.

Not to change the topic too much, but the reformed faith, which is what the original reformation taught back in the 1,500's, teaches that God predestines and decrees all that is to happen. This is found in Book 3 of John Calvin's Institutes and is also found in at least 2 Confessions that I can think of, the Westminster and the 1689.

If God predestines all and decrees all then it must be necessarily true that man has no free will.
How could man have free will if God predestines everything?

This could be discussed more if you look for a thread on the reformed faith or calvinism or on free will and you could reply there.

 

[journeymanisnothing]

Not to change the topic too much, but the reformed faith, which is what the original reformation taught back in the 1,500's, teaches that God predestines and decrees all that is to happen. This is found in Book 3 of John Calvin's Institutes and is also found in at least 2 Confessions that I can think of, the Westminster and the 1689.

If God predestines all and decrees all then it must be necessarily true that man has no free will.
How could man have free will if God predestines everything?

It's not difficult, once we understand that God said,

And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind Gen.1:11

He decided before, predestined,

For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

It's immutable,

A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit Mt.7:18

This could be discussed more if you look for a thread on the reformed faith or calvinism or on free will and you could reply there.

The problem for me was I kept talking past someone who understood the gospel much better than I did. It's couldn't see the truth because I was indoctrinated with lies.