He doesn't do it in a way that compromises his holiness or his goodness or his mercy or his wrath

when you focus his love in and through Christ because then you see that he is the justifier of the wicked

and yet he's just, as Paul tells us in Romans, to be both just and the justify of the wicked.

Well that's an act of love and mercy, but he's just in that. He's holy in that.

So God doesn't save us at the expense of his attributes, but as a result of his attributes, he saves us.

The Bible reveals much about who God is, his will, and what he's done for his people in history.

As Christians, we're invited into relationship with him and end-dwelled by his spirit.

And yet, God is also transcendent, and therefore can never be fully comprehended by us as finite

creatures.

How should we understand God in His fullness, both near to us as Father, and yet above and

beyond us as Creator? In our interview today, I'm talking with Mark Jones about how to bring these seemingly contradictory realities about God

together in our own minds through discussing five specific attributes of God that we often neglect in our thinking and our theology.

Mark is the pastor of Faith Vancouver Presbyterian Church in British Columbia and is the author of God is a devotional guide to the attributes of God from Crossway.

Let's get started.

Well, Mark, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossplay podcast.

Great to be with you.

So something I've always wrestled with when thinking about theology, our attempts to not

only understand, but even speak about God rightly, is just how limited human language and human mind are

when it comes to knowing God, let alone describing who God is. So I wonder if you could help us start

there. We're going to discuss God's attributes, but I wonder if you could help us just back up a

little bit. How do you think about our human ability

to even think about God, given that we're finite and created and God is transcendent and eternal?

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