Homoousian – same essence/substance
Wholly Other – Karl Barth
Used in Christian theology to describe the difference between God and everything else.
Indescribable
Uncontainable
Untamable
Incomparable
Unchangeable
Indispensable
Incomprehensible
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.”
Isaiah 55:8-9 New International Version (NIV)
God Is:
Omnipotent
Omniscient
Omnipresent
Omnibenevolent
Omni = All
Omnipotent – God Is All Powerful
Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.
Jeremiah 32:17 (NIV)
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnessess in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
Acts 1:8 NIV
Omnicient – All Knowing
You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar; you discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Psalm 139:1-6 NIV
Omnipresent – Always With Us
Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is a light to you.
Psalm 139:7-16 NIV
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in teh secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unfomred body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book beore one of them came to be.
Psalm 139:7-16 NIV
Omnibenevolent – God Is Good
Give thanks to the Lord, fo rhe is good; his love endures forever.
Psalm 107:1 NIV
Do you know this God who is other than you?
Who died for you?
Who loves you beyond measure?