#161 – Self-Existent & Self-Sufficient

Jen Wilkin, JT English, and Kyle Worley discuss what it means that God is Self-Existent & Self-Sufficient.

Questions Covered in This Episode:

• What’s an incommunicable attribute of God?
• Who created God?
• What does God need to survive?
• What do we mean when we say that God is “self-existent?” How is this different from saying God is “self-sufficient?”
• What is Aseity?
• How do we know, from scripture, that God is self-existent and self-sufficient?
• Why is this crucial to our doctrine of God?
• Why is it good news?

Helpful Definitions:

• Incommunicable Attribute: Things that are true about God, that are only true of God and are not true of anyone else.
• Communicable Attribute: Things that are true about God, that can also become true of us.
• Self-existent: God is the origin of all things, uncreated.
• Self-sufficient: God is lacking in nothing, He needs nothing.
• Independent: Not dependent on anything in order to exist.
• Aseity: God is a se, or has aseity: He is self-existent and self-sufficient. 

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

• Genesis 1:1, Romans 11, Acts 17:24-28

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