Thursday, May 27, 2010

God is Immutable: He never stops being himself

God in his essence never changes.  His nature and being are true, eternal, and infinite and so God is not subject to change. His name is “I am that I am.” A.W. Pink wrote: “He cannot change for the better, for he is already perfect; and being perfect, he cannot change for the worse.” To put it another way. God never stops being himself. We change, either we grow too big for our clothes, or maybe once in a while we grow too small for them, so alterations have to be made. God never changes thus he never has to alter himself. The One true eternal God has no addition, or subtraction, no decay or rejuvenation. God eternally remains the One he is…“I am that I am.”

What true religion is.

I'v been reading through Richard A. Muller's great project, Post-Reformation Reformed Dogmatics.  In it he sights Johannes Marckius' defintion of religion.  I think it's worth citing.

"'True religion is the right way of knowing and honoring God, for the purpose of the salvation of sinners and the glory of God'.  This definition, writes Marckius, draws directly on the sequence implied in Titus 1:1-2, for true knowledge of God leads to right worship, worship to slavation, salvation to the glory of God, while the completion or fullness of God's glory in salvation produces worship and worship yields knowledge." (Muller, PRRD. vol.1.  Pg. 173).