3 Attributes of God
An attribute of God is a character or feature about God’s Nature, or Behavior, a fact which defines and distinguishes God from all other beings, a quality that identifies God as God.
Spirit – my spirit, His power, or influence. (see Holy Spirit also)
Gen. 1:2 The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Jdg. 3:10 The Spirit of YAHWEH came upon him. (World English Bible)
Joel 2:28 I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Matt. 16:17 Flesh and bone did not reveal this to you, but my Father in heaven.
Jn. 4:24 God is Spirit.
Infinite - without limits of bounds, extending beyond all measure.
Isa. 57:15 He who lives forever, whose name is Holy.
(God has no past, present or future. God has always existed.)
Ps. 147:5 His understanding has no limit.
Jer. 23:24 Do not I fill the heavens and the earth?
2 Pet. 3:8 With the Lord one day is as a 1000 years, a 1000 years as one day.
Invisible - invisible to man unless otherwise manifested.
Col. 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God.
1 Tim. 1:17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God.
1 Tim. 6:16 Whom no one has seen or can see (this side of the Kingdom).
Jn. 1:18 No one has ever seen God.
What about? (see Trinity Refutation, Gen. 1:16 for explanation of Elohiym
Gen. 18 God appeared to Abraham. [Elohiym appeared to Abraham]
Gen. 26 God appeared to Abraham. [Elohiym appeared to Abraham]
Gen. 32:20 Jacob saw God. [Jacob saw Elohiym]
2 Chron. 1:7 God appeared to Solomon. [Elohiym appeared to Solomon]
How? God as to His nature in Scripture is invisible. God manifested himself to Abram and Jacob in a tangible physical form. Presumably as an Angel.
Being - there also is evidence that Yahweh exists in a physically spiritual form,
a localization of the Person of the Creator. His Proper Person.
Gen. 3:8 Adam and Eve heard Yahweh walking in the garden. Hid from Him.
Ex. 19:9, 11, 16-18 Yahweh, Behold, I will come to you in a thick cloud.
Ex. 24:1-2, 9-12, 15-18 Come up to Yahweh.
Ex. 33:11 Lord used to speak to Moses face to face. (Num. 12:8)
Ex. 33:22-23 Moses saw His back. (May have been a manifestation.)
1 Ki. 8:39 Then hear in heaven Your dwelling place.
1 Ki. 22:19 I saw the Yahweh sitting on His throne. (Has sides to His being.)
Job 2:1 Sons of God presented themselves before Yahweh.
Ps. 102:19 He looked down from His holy height; from heaven the Lord gazed
upon the earth.
Ps. 103:20 Angels obey His voice.
Ps. 115:16 Heavens are the heavens of the Lord, the earth, to the sons of men.
Isa. 6:5 For my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of hosts.
Ezek. 1:26-27 A figure with the appearance of a man.
Eccl. 5:2 For God is in heaven and you are on the earth.
Matt. 6:9 Our Father who is in heaven. (has location)
Matt. 10:32-33 My Father who is in heaven.
Matt. 17:5 A voice out of the cloud said, This is My beloved Son.
Matt. 18:10 Angels in heaven continually see the face of My Father.
Matt. 23:9 One is your Father, He who is in heaven.
Mk. 16:19-20 He was received up into heaven, sat down at the right hand of God.
Lk. 1:19 Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God.
Jn. 5:37 Nor seen His form. Jesus said He has a form.
2 Cor. 4:4-5 Christ the image of God. A likeness, profile, resemblance.
(Gen. 1:27, Col. 1:15-16)
Heb. 1:3-4 Express image of His person, sat down at the right hand of majesty.
1 Tim. 6:16 Dwells in unapproachable light.
Rev. 4:2-3 A throne was standing in heaven, and One sitting on the throne.
Rev. 5:1 He “sat” indicates a physical form, not to mention the “right hand”.
Clear distinction is made between the Father and Son revealing them as two separate persons. (Rev. 5:13, 7:10-12, 15, 17, 14:4, 15:3, 21:5-7)
Supreme Ruler - possess all power and authority in Heaven and on Earth and
shares it with whom He wishes to perform His will and purposes.
Ps. 75:7 God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.
Jer. 27:5-7 I give it to whomever it seems right to me.
Dan. 2:21 1 He changes times and seasons; he removes kings, sets up kings.
Dan. 4:17 Most High rules the kingdom of men, and gives it to whom He will,
and sets over it the lowliest of men. (Dan. 4:25, 32-35, 5:18-21)
Rom. 13:1 There is no authority except from God, and those which exist are
established by God.
Omnipresence - everywhere present, all the time
Deut. 4:39 Lord is God in heaven above, on the earth below. There is no other.
Ps. 139:7-8 Where can I go from your spirit? Where can I flee from your
presence? If I go up to the Heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in
Sheol, you are there.
Prov. 15:3 Eyes of the LORD are everywhere, keeping watch on, wicked, good.
1 Ki. 8:27 The heavens, even the highest heaven cannot contain you.
Eternal - God always existed, He is, without beginning or end,
Gen. 1:1 In the beginning ‘God’.
Deut. 32:40 As surly as I live forever.
Job 36:26 Great is God beyond our understanding! The number, his years is past
finding out.
Isa. 57:15 He who lives forever, whose name is holy.
Rom. 16:26 By the command of the eternal God.
Heb. 9:14 He through the eternal spirit.
1 Tim 1:17 Eternal, immortal, invisible.
Immortal - not subject to death, cannot die
1 Tim. 1:17 Eternal, immortal, the only wise God.
1 Tim. 6:16 Who alone is immortal and who lives in unapproachable light.
Omnipotent - having all power, almighty.
Job 42:2 I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted.
Matt. 19:26 But with God all things are possible.
Matt. 28:18 All authority in heaven and earth has been given to me.
Rom. 13:1 There is no authority except from God, and those which exist are
established by God.
1 Tim. 6:15 The blessed and only potentate.
Omniscient - having all knowledge, foreknowledge of the future.
Matt. 10:30 And even the very hairs of your head are numbered.
Ps. 147:5 Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit.
Heb. 4:13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight.
Prov. 15:3 The eyes of the Lord are everywhere, watching the wicked, the good.
1 Jn. 3:20 For God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
Immutable - not subject to change, unchangeable.
Ex. 3:14 Always in the present tense.
Mal. 3:6 I the Lord do not change.
Ps. 102:26, 27 But you remain the same, and your years will never change.
Heb. 6:17, 18 The immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath.
Ja. 1:17 Father of heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
Unsearchable - is past finding out.
Job 5:9 He performs wonders that cannot be fathomed, miracles uncountable.
Job 11:7 Can you probe the limits of the Almighty?
Isa. 40:28 There is no searching of his understanding.
Eccl. 3:11 Yet they cannot fathom what God has done from the beginning to end.
Rom. 11:33 How unsearchable his judgments and unfathomable are His ways!
Love - God’s dealings, plans come from motives of love; He cannot act apart
from love even when He brings evil.
Deut. 7:7, 8 Because the Lord loved you, He kept the oath He swore.
God keeping his covenant of love, has shown Himself to be faithful.
1 Jn. 4:8 God is love.
Ex. 34:7 Abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands.
2 Cor. 13:11 And the God of love and peace will be with you.
Eph. 2:4 But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy.
Sinless -
Deut. 32:4 A God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is He.
Ja. 1:13 God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempts he any man.
Savior -
Ps. 3:8 Salvation belongs to the Lord; Your blessing be upon Your people.
Ps. 37:39 The salvation of the righteous is from the Lord.
Isa. 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid.
Isa. 43:3 I am the Lord your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior.
Isa. 43:11 I, even I, am Yahweh, And there is no savior besides Me.
Isa. 45:21 And there is no other God besides Me, A righteous God and a Savior
There is none except Me.
Hos. 13:4 For there is no savior besides Me.
Jonah 2:9 Salvation is from the Lord.
Lk. 1:47 And my spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.
1 Tim. 1:1 According to the commandment of God our Savior.
Titus 2:10 Adorn the doctrine of God our Savior in every respect.
Titus 3:4-6 God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us.
Ju. 25 To the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rev. 7:10-11 Salvation to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb.
God is Not a Man -
Num. 23:19 God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man.
Job 9:32 For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him.
1 Sam. 15:28-29 He is not a man that He should change His mind.
Father -
Deut. 32:6 Is not He your Father who has bought you? He has made you.
Isa. 63:16 But you are our Father, though Abraham.
Isa. 64:8 Yet, O Lord, you are our Father. We are the clay, you are the potter.
Rom. 8:15 A spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, Abba, Father.
Gal. 3:26 For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
Gal. 4:6 The Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
1 Jn. 3:1 See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, children of God.
Lawgiver and Judge -
Isa. 33:22 For Yahweh is our judge, is our lawgiver, Yahweh is our king.
Ja. 4:12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy.
Heb. 12:23 God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect.
Creator- Maker of all things.
Gen. 1:1 God created the heavens and the earth.
Isa. 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these stars.
Isa. 40:28 The Lord is the everlasting God, the creator of the ends of the earth.
Isa. 44:24 I am the Lord, who has made all things, who alone stretched out the
heavens, who spread out the earth by myself.
Isa. 51:13 Who stretched out the heavens, And laid the foundations of the earth.
Isa. 66:1-2 My hand made all these things.
Neh. 9:6 You alone are the Lord. You made the heavens, all their starry host,
the earth and all that is in it, the seas and all that is in them. You give
life to everything and the multitudes of heaven worship you.
Ac. 7:50 Was it not my hand which made all these things.
Ac. 17:24 The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of
heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands.
Col. 1:16-17 All things have been created through Him and for Him.
Rev. 4:11 You are worthy, our Lord God, to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have
their being.
He is the creator; we are creatures, created beings.
Merciful –
Ex. 20:6 Showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me.
Deut. 7:12 The covenant and the mercy which He swore to your fathers.
Deut. 13:17 The Lord may turn from His burning anger and show mercy to you.
Ps. 59:16, 17 Your mercy in the morning, My God of mercy.
Ps. 98:3 His mercy and His faithfulness to the house of Israel.
Ps. 100:5 For the Lord is good; His mercy is everlasting.
Ps. 103:11, 17 Great is His mercy toward those who fear Him.
Ps. 118:1-4, Ps. 136 His mercy endures forever.
Isa. 16:5 In mercy the throne will be established.
Hos. 6:6 I desire mercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God.
Matt. 5:7 Blessed are the merciful, For they shall obtain mercy.
Lk. 1:78 Through the tender mercy of our God.
Rom. 9:15 I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have
compassion on whomever I will have compassion.
Rom. 9:18 He has mercy on whom He wills, whom He wills He hardens.
Phil. 2:27 God had mercy on him.
Heb. 4:16 We may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Immeasurable - God is not a quantity that can be measured.
Brings Evil – (see Sources of Evil section)
God is one - (one means one, single, solitary, one) Strong’s Concordance Greek N.T. #1520 heis (hice); (including the neuter [etc.] hen); a primary numeral; one.
Mk. 12:29, 32 Jesus said, Hear, O Israel, the Lord is One. (Deut. 6:4)
Gal. 3:20 God is one.
Rom. 3:30 God who will justify people by faith is one.
Ja. 2:19 You believe that God is one.
There is one God - There are no other gods beside Him.
Deut. 4:35 The Lord He is God; there is none else beside Him.
Deut. 6:4 Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God; Yahweh is one.
Deut. 32:39 I, even I, am He, and there is no god with Me.
1 Ki. 18:39 The Lord, He is the God; the Lord, He is the God.
Neh. 9:6 You are Lord alone.
Ps. 83:18 You alone, whose name is Yahweh, the Most High over all the earth.
Ps. 86:10 You are God alone.
Isa. 43:10-12 Before Me was no God formed, neither shall there be after Me.
Isa. 44:6, 8 I am the first and the last; beside Me there is no God.
Isa. 45:5, 6 I am the Lord and there is none else.
Zech. 14:9 There shall be one Lord and His name one.
Jn. 5:44 The honor that comes from the only God.
Mal. 2:10 Has not one God created us?
1 Cor. 8:4, 6 There is but one God.
Eph. 4:6 There is one God and Father of all.
1 Tim. 2:5 There is one God.
God has one name (Yahweh) but many titles -
YAHWEH from YHWH or Jehovah, is the name of God in the O.T. (Isa. 42:8). It literally means “He is” (third-person, singular, imperfect form of hayah which means to exist, to be or become or will be).
God told Moses that His name is I AM that I AM, or I will be that which I will be (ehyeh asher ehyeh, Ex. 3:14, 15). Ehyeh is the first person, singular form of hayah, it is related to the name YAHWEH. (See Gen. 2:4; Ex. 6:3; Ps. 83:18.)
Adonai, (plural form of Adon, plural form of majesty), Lord of lords, Deut. 10:17
El, strength, Mighty One, Gen. 35:3
Elah, strength, Mighty One, Ezr. 4:24
El Elyon, The Most High God, Gen. 14:18
Eloah, strength, Mighty One, Deut. 32:15
Elohim, (plural form of Eloah, plural of majesty), strongest of all strong ones,
Gen. 1:1
El Olam, The Everlasting God, Gen. 21:33
El Roi, The God who sees, Gen. 16:13
El Shaddai, The Almighty God, Gen. 17:1
Immanuel, God with us, Matt. 1:23; Isa. 7:14
Kurios, master, owner, possessor, lord, Ac. 2:36
Theos, God, Matt. 1:23
El, Elohim, Yahweh, and Adonai are interchangeable.
Gen. 17:1 Yahweh appeared and said, I am El.
Ex. 20:2 I am Yahweh your Elohim.
Deut. 5:9 I Yahweh your Elohim am a jealous El.
Deut. 10:17 Yahweh your Elohim is Elohim of Elohim, and Adoni of Adon, a
great El.
Isa. 45:21 Am I not Yahweh? And there is no Elohim beside me; a just El, and a
Savior.
Isa. 46:9 I am El and there is none else, I am Elohim.
Dan. 9:4 I prayed unto Yahweh my Elohim, ….. O Adonai, the great and
dreadful El.
Compound titles of God -
Yahweh-jireh, He is our provider, Gen. 22:14
Yahweh-rapha, He is our healer, Ex. 15:26
Yahweh-nissi, He is our banner, Ex. 17:815
Yahweh-shalom, He is our peace, Jdg. 6:24
Yahweh-raah, He is my shepherd, Ps. 23:1
Yahweh-tsidkenu, He is our righteousness, Jer. 23:6
Yahweh-shammah, He is there, Ezk. 48:35
