ESSAY 4

What are the essential attributes of God as presented in the Orthodox credo and their nature
(e.g. the categories in which they may be grouped, the basis of God’s omnipotence)?

The attributes or attributes of God are real properties of the divine being, by which
God manifests himself, in communication according to human possibility of knowledge,
divine works, namely in creation, providence, salvation, sanctification, judgment, perfection.
God heads to man, and through his energies he enters communion with his followers, with the
believers who are heading toward him.

Thus God remains with the being in absolute transcendence, in all different from the
creature, man, his “ways” and “domes” being far from man’s decasions and domes (is 55,9),
not being “man” (bone 11,9) nor “as man” (Num 13,9), yet theology may, according to the
very models of the Revelation, the Holy Scripture, and Holy tradition, and Holy, and Holy
tradition, To use appointments of human positions and attributes to describe and explain
God's own attributes, starting from the blapness that man is created according to God's image,
of course he should be attributed to God everything which is proper to the created beings, All
the marginal. And here it is called for to be remembered that God is the absolute personality,
he alone has all the good and none of the evil attributes, and so as we know all the attributes
of God, but only those that have been discovered and on which we partially understand only,
We must avoid the illusion that they are blind by our knowledge in the very being of God,
unsilvered and inpenetrable.

Yet we know that God being absolute, one and undivided, his attributes are not
peculiar to divine perfection, but are one with it, inseparable from it, perfect ununity with it.
Therefore we call God good, wise, loving of truth, etc., but also that he is insasiousness,
wisdom, truth, etc. so also respecting the larval of divine attributes between them: In their
essence they are not peculiar, but constitute a perfect unit, for instance goodness and justice,
love and justice, all-science and freedom, etc. we are enumerating differently, according to the
image of manifestations of the unestablished energies and according to the human way of
knowledge and expression.