Aseity is that God is not dependent on anyone or anything because he has life in himself.

So the whole work of salvation is getting at this work of what God has by nature, what God is by nature, namely life.

We get to become, we get to experience,

we get to participate in by grace.

So what God is by nature, we are by grace, namely life,

eternal life.

Samuel Parkeson is Associate Professor of The theology at the Gulf Theological Seminary in the

United Arab Emirates.

He's the author of several books, including The Fountain of Life, Contemplating the

Asseity of God from Crossway.

Well, Samuel, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast. Yeah, thanks for having me.

So this new book that you've written, it's about a doctrine that I think is probably pretty unfamiliar to most Christians.

Maybe you've never heard of the doctrine. Actually, when I typed it in my notes, my spell check didn't recognize the word.

I was trying to find to change it a few

times. And that doctrine is the aseity of God. How would you summarize that in, you know, two paragraphs

or someone who's not familiar? Yeah. It comes from Latin as, you know, these more... As the best doctrines do. That's right.

The more unfamiliar doctrines typically tend to use Latin.

And ah say just means of self in Latin.

And so it's the doctrine that says that God is of himself.

So that's an unfamiliar doctrine with a description that still sounds unfamiliar.

Yeah, it still feels a little bit unclear. What does that even mean?

Confusing doctrine with a confusing explanation. So basically what that means is that God is not

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