Triune God Midterm Study Guide

Definition of divine incomprehensibility

• The knowledge of God cannot be contained by the mind of the creature.

• shows Gods exultation over Creation.

• Comprehending is to contain. Knowing is to have knowledge of.

• God makes himself known through the attributes that he gives us and through his creations.

How does 1 Kings 8:27 establish the incomprehensibility of God?

• Absolute non-symmetry and not adequate measures.

• Shows God’s exultation over Creation.

• Comprehending is to contain. Knowing is to have knowledge of.

• God makes himself known through the attributes that he gives us and through his creations.

In what two senses do we say God is incomprehensible?

• Absolute non-symmetry and not adequate measures.

• Comprehending is to contain. Knowing is to have knowledge of.

• God makes himself known through the attributes that he gives us and through his creations.

In reference to our understanding of God, what is the difference between “comprehending” and “knowing”?

• God makes himself known through the attributes that he gives us and through his creations.

• Comprehending is to contain. Knowing is to have knowledge of.

• Shows God’s exultation over Creation.

Herman Bavinck: “If we cannot speak of God ______________ then we cannot speak of him at all.”

If God is unknowable in himself, how and where does he makes something of himself known to us?

• God names himself (He does not need a name in order to know himself). He does this because we are not able to devise names for Him through our own understanding. He is the only one who can do so.

• God makes himself known through the attributes that he gives us and through his creations.

• Human knowledge of God is derived from his revelation.

Who names God? Why?

• God names himself (He does not need a name in order to know himself). He does this because we are not able to devise names for Him through our own understanding. He is the only one who can do so.

• The knowledge that God has of himself, his self-consciousness.

• Human knowledge of God is derived from his revelation.

What is Archetypal knowledge?

• The knowledge that God has of himself, his self-consciousness.

• Human knowledge of God is derived from his revelation.

• Means that God is “of himself” or “from himself”.

What is Ectypal knowledge?

• The knowledge that God has of himself, his self-consciousness.

•   Human knowledge of God is derived from his revelation.

• Means that God is “of himself” or “from himself”.

What are the three ways of expressing God’s attributes?

• a) Way of negation or removal b) Way of eminence c) Way of causality

   

•   Boundless of all finite beings. Unbounded in His essence and existence.