Six kinds of actions that God cannot perform:
- Logically contradictory actions - such as making a round square or ultimately saving and condemning the same person
- Immoral actions - such as lying, stealing, or coveting
- Actions only appropriate to finite creatures - like taking medicine for a cough
- Actions denying His own nature as God - such as abandoning His own attributes
- Changing His eternal plan - what has been decreed by God will happen
- Making a stone so large He cannot lift it - falls under several categories above (1, 3, and 4)
Ways in which Scripture tells us God is unchanging:
- In His Essential Attributes - Hebrews 10:1-12
- In His Decretive Will - Psalm 33:11
- In His Covenental Faithfulness - Psalm 89:34-37
- In the Truth of His Revelation - Isaiah 46:8-10
Conclusions on God's Incorporeality:
- God is not to be identified with any physical being, for he is transcendent over space and time.
- If God is simple, it is hard to imagine how he can be physical.
- If he is omnipresent he cannot be a particular physical being.
- If God had a physical existence, his body would have to be the entire universe; this is pantheism.
- Nor should we think of the world as part of God's being; this is panentheism.
- Nevertheless, God is present in the world he has made.
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