{"id":10004,"date":"2022-10-21T23:20:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T23:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=10004"},"modified":"2023-05-17T07:09:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T07:09:58","slug":"19-infinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2022\/10\/19-infinity\/","title":{"rendered":"19 Infinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"center\">INFINITY<\/h3>\n<p class=\"drop-cap\">Infinity is taken in two senses entirely different, i. e. in a positive and a negative one. Positive infinity is a quality of being perfect in itself, or capable of receiving no addition. Negative is the quality of being boundless, unlimited, or endless. That God is infinite is evident; for as Doddridge observes, 1. If he be limited, it must either be by himself, or by another; but no wise being would abridge himself, and there could be no other being to limit God.&#8211;2. Infinity follows from self-existence; for a necessity that is not universal must depend on some external cause, which a self-existent Being does not.&#8211;3. Creation is so great an act of power, that we can imagine nothing impossible to that Being who has performed it, but must therefore ascribe to him infinite power.&#8211;4. It is more honourable to the Divine Being to conceive of him as infinite, than finite.&#8211;5. The Scriptures represent all his attributes as Infinite. His understanding is infinite, Psal. cxlvii. 5. His knowledge and wisdom, Rom. 11:33. His power, Rom. 1:20. Heb. 11:3. His goodness, Psal. 16:2. His purity, holiness, and justice, Job 4:17,18. Isa. 6:2,3.\u20146. His omnipotence and eternity prove his infinity; for were he not infinite, he would be bounded by space and by time, which he is not.<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"10004\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INFINITY Infinity is taken in two senses entirely different, i. e. in a positive and a negative one. Positive infinity is a quality of being perfect in itself, or capable of receiving no addition. Negative is the quality of being boundless, unlimited, or endless. That God is infinite is evident; for as Doddridge observes, 1. If he be limited, it must either be by himself, or by another; but no wise being would abridge himself, and there could be no other being to limit God.&#8211;2. Infinity follows from self-existence; for a necessity that is not universal must depend on some external cause, which a self-existent Being does not.&#8211;3. Creation is so great an act of power, that we can imagine nothing impossible to that Being who has performed it, but must therefore ascribe to him infinite power.&#8211;4. It is more honourable to the Divine Being to conceive of him as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":12742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1085],"tags":[1215],"class_list":["post-10004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charles-bucks-theological-dictionary","tag-divine-attributes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16156,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions\/16156"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}