A few years ago I wrote a post about this topic that I am still happy with.  Recently a friend challenged me to think about some deeper theological issues, and I wrote him a response, but there is an element of that is an extension of my former post that I want to publish here. There is an earlier post that I will share, because I think this also gets to some challenges with our identification with a church and doctrines that we need to deal with.  But both of these posts deal with our duty to understand the scriptures, and to correctly interpret and apply them, first in our own lives, and then in our interactions with others.

What I am writing about deals with a very specific challenge to human understanding of the attributes of God, and how those attributes of God transform into the doctrines of the Church.  God is sovereign, loving, just, merciful, holy, eternal, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, infinite, immutable, self-existent, self-sufficient, faithful, good, wise, and transcendent.

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