God's Wisdom and Ours - Part 1

There is so much good stuff in this chapter (ch 10) that I will split it over several blogs.

Older theologians dealt with two main 'groups' of God's attributes :

incommunicable
(which highlight his transcendence and belong to God alone):
- independence (self-existence and self-sufficiency)
- immutability (entire freedom from change leading to entire consistency of action)
- infinity (freedom from all limits of time and space ... so for example his eternity and omnipresence)

communicable
(which highlights that God has made man in his image and in some sense man shares these attributes with God):
-spirituality
-freedom
-omnipotence
-goodness
-truth
-holiness
-righteousness
-wisdom etc.

God made man a free spiritual being, a responsible moral agent with powers of choice and action, able to commune with him and resond to him, and by nature good, truthful, holy and upright. In a word, godly or godlike.

These were lost in the fall, God's image distorted and defaced.

But God reveals in the Bible his plan of redemption to restore this world and his image in his people in and through Christ. He communicates these qualities afresh to his people:

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory (2 Corinthians 3:18)

and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. (Colossians 3:10)