The Unity of God and the Church

So today I was reading about the attributes of God for my Christian Theology class and something in the reading got my brain ticking. The author of our text, Wayne Grudem was discussing the unity of God, which he defined as this: “God is not divided into parts, yet we see different attributes of God emphasized at different times.” (Grudem, Wayne. Bible Doctrine.) He then went on to discuss how we can’t, as limited humans, see all God’s attributes at once and how certain actions of God seem to display certain attributes more than other actions. However, we should never think that all of God’s attributes are not involved in all of his actions. He is still just when he forgives and still merciful when he punishes.

In some ways, God’s unity teaches us about the Church’s unity. The Church, the living body of Christ, also has many different attributes to its nature and many battles have been fought over which of these attributes are the most needed. Yet all of these attributes are needed; all make up the church’s nature. Individual churches may emphasize different aspects at different times (just like God seems to display certain attributes in certain actions), but the whole Church, in its diversity, always holds all the attributes of the body of Christ.

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