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The Immutability or Unchangeability of God is an attribute that "God is unchanging in his character, will, and covenant promises." [1] The Westminster Shorter Catechism says that "[God] is a spirit, whose being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth are infinite, eternal, and unchangeable." Those things do not change.
doth live and reign eternally. Amen. O God Unchangeable and True, Of all the life and power: Dispensing light in silence through Every successive hour: Lord, Brighten our declining day, That it may never wane, Till death, when all things round decay, Bring back the morn again. This grace on thy redeem'd confer, Father, coequal Son,
Many theologians see mystery as God's primary attribute because he only reveals certain knowledge to the human race. Karl Barth said "God is ultimate mystery." [40] Karl Rahner views "God" as "mystery" and theology as "the 'science' of mystery." [41] Nikolai Berdyaev deems "inexplicable Mystery" as God's "most profound definition."
Christian hope is based not on wishful thinking but on the 'solemn promise of God', that the 'foundation of God's saving activity in the world was the particular promise made to Abraham in Genesis 12:1–3 and repeated at different times and forms to the forefathers of Israel (cf. Genesis 15:1–21; 26:2–4; 28:13–15; Exodus 3:6–10). [12]
Ephesus: Mary is the Mother of God [23] Chalcedon: Jesus is true man, with a human body and a human soul [24] Constantinople: Jesus is true God and has a human will and a divine will [25] Nicaea II: holy images may be created and are owed veneration, not adoration [26] Vatican I: papal infallibility [27]
The Hebrew scriptures were an important source for the New Testament authors. [13] There are 27 direct quotations in the Gospel of Mark, 54 in Matthew, 24 in Luke, and 14 in John, and the influence of the scriptures is vastly increased when allusions and echoes are included, [14] with half of Mark's gospel being made up of allusions to and citations of the scriptures. [15]
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The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood.