![]() ![]() ![]() Since God’s first concern for His universe is its moral health, that is, its holiness, whatever is contrary to this is necessarily under His eternal displeasure. The formation of the language itself suggests this, the English word holy deriving from the Anglo-Saxon halig, hal, meaning ‘well, whole.’ Whatever is holy is healthy evil is a moral sickness that must end ultimately in death. Sin’s temporary presence in the world only accents this. God is holy and He has made holiness the moral condition necessary to the health of His universe. Because He is holy, all His attributes are holy that is, whatever we think of as belonging to God must be thought of as holy. ![]() He is absolutely holy with an infinite, incomprehensible fullness of purity that is incapable of being other than it is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. In this regard we quote again from Tozer’s, “The Knowledge of God”: God is love, and has provided in every way possible for our escape from eternal damnation, but He is also a consuming fire, and His holiness will one day be manifest in final judgement against sin. Some protest that if God is love, how can he send sinners to hell. His holiness demands that His great desire for the salvation be subordinated to His nature, which also demands justice. He is perfectly holy in all He thinks, says and does, and holiness perfectly describes above all else the inward character of our God. It has been suggested that his holiness is the union of all other attributes, as pure white light is the union of all the coloured rays of the spectrum.”God is absolutely pure, without spot or blemish. This one single perfection would perhaps come closer to describing the eternal Creator than any other characteristic he possesses. Without a doubt the most prominent attribute of God as presented by both Old and New Testament Scriptures is his holiness. Wilmington, in his Guide To The Bible, says: God’s moral attributes include perfect holiness, perfect righteousness, perfect love and perfect faithfulness. These attributes can be possessed by His children to varying degrees, and should be increasing in our experience as we walk together with our Father. God’s moral attributes are those qualities of Being that belong to Him perfectly in relation to His creatures. ![]()
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