Do you agree that these are all attributes of God?

Question

Spirit
Eternal
Immutable
Omnipotent
Omniscient
Omnipresent
Holy
Just
Faithful
Good
Merciful
Gracious
Love

I am not implying that He is not more than these.

Answer 1

Yes. These are all revealed attributes of God.

Answer 2

God's resume. And it's a very good resume, but I think it's too long and too specific. Here's the problem: When mankind has tried to overstate what God is, this is where divisions form and the taking of sides became necessary. Not that this was deliberate... the list grew out of mankind's admiration for God.

In this day and age, we need to cut the list down to it's pure essence in order to unite mankind.

My critique of this list: "Immutable" means unchanging, yet "omniscient" implies always present in some form, sometimes invisible or behind the scenes. There we have a little contradiction and confusion. I have a bit of trouble with"holy" and "faithful"... those adjectives are more commonly used to link things other than God to God. "Just"... hmmm, that's a tough sell in times of horrific tragedy.

On the other hand: Love. To me that is a four letter word synonymous with God.
Spirit, Eternal, Omni-everything: these all work for me as well.

I do like the question... very thoughtful.

Answer 3

Well, I don't believe in a god, but I'll examine them for the Christian God:

* Spirit
No good definition. Not a material being, perhaps? Sure.

* Eternal
Eternal may work, but seems to mean 'within time, from beginning to end', whereas many people like to say he's outside of time. But there is not time beyond him, so yes, eternal in that sense.

* Immutable
This goes with him being 'outside' of time. Change refers to difference over time, so If time doesn't apply to him, how can he change? Similarly, if he's perfect, he should never get worse and can never get better (as he is the best it gets). He may treat people differently over time, but that's because the people change, not the god.

* Omnipotent
Yes. We sometimes call him the OOO God. This and the next being two of the O's. The most important, fundamental aspects of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic god.

* Omniscient
This is a problem with Free Will, due to the oddness of 'middle knowledge', but since Free Will is logically impossible, yes. It's a fundamental characteristic of God.

* Omnipresent
This seems to be entailed by Jeremiah 23:24, among others.

* Holy
By definition, any god is holy: 'belonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power'.

* Just
This is something the Christian god allegedly has, and clearly fails to demonstrate. On the other hand, what defines justice if not god himself?

* Faithful
Faithfulness contradicts omniscience. Faith is belief without sufficient evidence. God has perfect evidence of everything he believes. This is the only one on your list that I think is NOT part of the JCI God.

* Good
This is the third O: Omnibenevolent.
He's often said to define good. I don't like that for reasons explained in Euthyphro, but, yes, he is widely regarded as good. He seems to do some bad things, but Christian doctrine, I think, would have to either say he didn't really do them or they really are good.

* Merciful
He seems /awfully/ petty and vengeful at times, and clearly states he is so, but he is at times merciful, yes.

* Gracious
Well, I suppose so, yes.

* Love
Very much so in the Christian tradition.

Twelve out of thirteen is not bad.

Answer 4

I'm not going to bash the God you believe in, but I will say that I don't agree with the things you have listed. Question: Were you trying to get all the atheists to go on their tirades with this one?

Answer 5

Ideally, yes, these are attributes of god.

But through thousands of years of interpretation He's become
Vengeful
Hateful
Murderous
Judgemental
Biased
Cruel

Answer 6

They are attributes of religion and what we hope is what god is about.
So I hope so - but remember some folks won't go as far as to say that.

Answer 7

yes i totally agree with you . for that is the God i know and the God that has never let me down

Answer 8

Yes definitely.

Answer 9

Assuming you're referring to the "God of Abraham" you obviously forgot:
Vain - needs to be worshiped
Insecure - punishes those that don't worship him
Ruthless - kills the innocent

Answer 10

if you are trying to describe any of the standard organized/monotheistic interpretations of god, you are pretty far off base.