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🗓️ 24 November 2021
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0:00.0 | Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig. Today, the Doctrine of God |
0:07.5 | Part 2. For more information and resources from Dr. Craig, go to reasonable faith.org. |
0:14.0 | Today we begin our study of the attributes of God. This is really my favorite section of theology, and we're going to begin by |
0:24.4 | looking at some of the infinite attributes of God, that is to say those which are God's, |
0:29.9 | not in virtue of his personhood, but simply in virtue of his being an infinite being. |
0:36.5 | And the first attribute that we want to examine together is God's self-existence or, as it's |
0:44.7 | more properly called, God's Aseity. |
0:49.3 | Aseity comes from the Latin words, A say, which means by itself or in itself. And the idea here is that God exists |
1:04.0 | a say. He simply exists in himself. Or as I put it here on the outline in English, God is self-existent. |
1:13.6 | Now let's begin by looking at some of the scriptural data that indicate that God is a self-existent being. |
1:22.6 | Let's begin in the Old Testament by looking at a passage from the book of Isaiah chapter |
1:31.3 | 40 and verses 17 to 23 and then 28A. Isaiah chapter 40 versus 17 to 23 and then 28A. |
1:37.3 | Isaiah chapter 40 verses 17 to 23 and then 28A. This is Isaiah's polemic against pagan idolatry, and he |
1:51.0 | mocks the idols in contrast to the God of Israel, who is the uncreated creator of all things. |
2:00.0 | So in Isaiah, chapter 40 40 verses 17 in following we read, |
2:06.6 | all the nations are as nothing before him. They are accounted by him as less than nothing |
2:15.6 | and emptiness. |
2:17.8 | To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with Him? |
2:24.5 | The idol? |
2:25.8 | A workman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for its silver chains. |
2:32.6 | He who is impoverished chooses for an offering wood that |
2:37.4 | will not rot. He seeks out a skillful craftsman to set up an image that will not move. |
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