Part 7 of 11 in the Doctrine of God series

Intro to God’s Infinity

Turretin: “God’s infinity means he embraces every degree of perfection without any limitation.”

Infinity: God is infinite, or not limited…

• In his perfections
• In his being and well being → aseity & sufficiency
• Today:
• by our creaturely comprehension → incomprehensibility
• by time → eternity
• by space → immensity & omnipresence
• in power → omnipotence
• in knowledge (or wisdom) → omniscience (or omnisapience)

1. Incomprehensibility: Infinity as it Relates to Our Understanding

Psalm 145:3: “Great is the Lord and greatly to be praised; and His greatness is unsearchable.”

• “Unsearchable”: there is no searching, counting, or full examination
• God’s infinity is not mathematical but absolute

1. Eternity: Infinity as it Relates to Time

John 5:58: “Before Abraham was, I Am.”

Psalm 90:2: “From everlasting to everlasting, you are God.”

• A being in time is bound by all the characteristics of time: change, composition, dependency, and impotence
• How can God act (decree) in time if he is outside of time?

Augustine: “the God who is everlasting without time can change the created order without any change in Himself.”