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There are many attributes of God that I'm not going to discuss here because of limitations of space and because I want to focus on five main attributes of God that everyone must be able to comprehend.

1) God's Eternality - We know from the Bible that God always existed and will never cease to exist -- that He is eternal Being.

A) Deuteronomy 33:27, "The eternal God is your dwelling place . . . "

B) Romans 1:20, "For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse."

C) 1 John 5:20, "He is the true God and eternal life."

Aside from Scripture, we can see from a simple philosophical reasoning process that the fact that anything exists now, says that there has to be a Being that has the power of Existence within Himself from all eternity. Nothing comes from nothing is the Law of Non-Contradiction in philosophy. "A" cannot NOT exist and exist at the same time and in the same relationship.

God couldn't have been created - that would lead us back to the same argument for the one who would have been His Creator - absurd reasoning.

There remains only one other possible conclusion: God exists eternally and from His Power of Self-Existence gives existence to all that is.
Nothing comes from nothing.

He is "from all eternity" (Psalm 93:2), "the eternal King" (Jer 10:10), "the immortal God" (Romans 1:23), "who alone is immortal"(1 Tim 6:16). "Before the mountains were born, or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God"(Psalm 90:2). Eart and heaven, says the psalmist, "will perish, but you remain: they will wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded. But you remain the same, and your years will never end"(Psalm 102:26). "I am the first", says God, "And I am the last" (Isaiah 48:12).

Created things have a beginning and an ending, but not so their Creator. ... He exists for ever; and he is always the same. He does not grow older. His life does not wax and wane. He does not gain new powers, nor lose those that he once had. He does not mature or develop. He does not grow stronger, weaker, or wiser, as time goes by. "He cannot change for the better," wrote A. W. Pink, "for He is already perfect; and being perfect, He cannot change for the worse."

J. I. Packer - Knowing God

Reflecting on God's eternal attributes helps us to see how "big" God is compared to us, how much greater the Creator is compared with His creation.