This episode begins a series on the attributes of God by distinguishing between incommunicable attributes, which belong to God alone, and communicable attributes, which He shares with humanity. The focus is on God’s self-existence (aseity) and immutability. God alone is a self-existent being whose existence is grounded in His own nature, not dependent on anything else. Both philosophical reasoning and Scripture affirm the necessity of an uncaused cause, revealed in creation ex nihilo and in God’s self-disclosure as “I AM.”

The episode then explores God’s noncontingent continued existence through Paul’s address in Athens, showing that God is independent and self-sufficient, yet actively sustains and governs all life. This understanding counters both pantheism and the idea of a distant, impersonal deity.

Building on this founda ...