4 Questions about the Attributes of God

This points us to an important distinction in God that a lot of people fail to recognize. This is that there are two different kinds of attributes in him. First of all, there are his essential (or “natural”) attributes that he does not share with us, like his invisibility. Then there are his relational attributes, which he does share with us. Somewhere in the middle are attributes that we do not share with God by nature but that he has chosen to bestow on us, at least to a limited degree.