We try to steal the glory that is God’s alone by craving the attributes that are God’s alone. We want this list to be true of us more than we want” the other list to be. “Though this list can be true only of God, we want it to be true of us. As she examines them, she attempts to answer this question: “How should the knowledge that God is _ change the way I live?” In other words, what measurable change should occur as a result of meditating on God’s unique attributes? Further, she means to show how we, as human beings, treat the first list. But even more so, it is her focus: She focuses entirely on the first group, the traits that are true of God alone. Partly it is audience, since her book is written by a woman for women. These attributes have already been the subject of many books, with luminaries like Charnock, Pink, Sproul, and Tozer writing excellent works on them. In the second group, communicable attributes, they place holy, loving, just, merciful, and so on. In the first group, his incommunicable attributes, they place infinite, incomprehensible, eternal, omnipotent, and several more. Theologians tend to make two lists of attributes, dividing them by those that are unique to God and those that he has given to other creatures. God’s attributes are his traits, his qualities. Sponsor Show Your Support Become a Patron
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