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The nature of God includes all aspects and characteristics attributed directly to the person of God, possibly including all the omni- aspects (e.g. omniscience), love, hate, persons (e.g. the Trinity) or other attributes.

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Are there limits to "Progressive Revelation" regarding the nature of God?

Do any Christian denominations believe there are limits to "progressive revelation"? It would be good to precisely unpack this concept of "progressive revelation", in terms of 1) WHO is doing the re …
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Can one speak of God the Father being both spirit & body?

Thomists (representing the Roman Catholic position) will say yes to "God is in all things", which is as close as to what you said: Everything that exists both spiritual & physical exist in God. alth …
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According to Eastern Orthodoxy does God have a soul?

I would think the answer is "no", the same answer by Catholics and Protestants. None of the 3 main branches use the term "soul" to talk about God's (divine) nature. Instead we all say God IS "spirit" …
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Does God the Son have Faith?

This is a Trinitarian answer, and thus evaluates Jesus in his human nature in relation to God his Father, to whom he depends on in his creatureliness as one of us, since he is 100% human as well as 10 …
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According to Trinitarians, how could Jesus (God the Son) be GIVEN life in Himself (John 5:26...

Remember that for Trinitarians, the Chalcedonian understanding of the dual natures of Christ is "part of the same package". In Trinitarian theology, the terminology "Son of God" has to refer to this …
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How Does God Love?

Your question holds in tension 3 ideas I want to focus on: The proper meaning of God's perfection, Imperfect humans He created, and the proper understanding of how God hates evil Being humane and c …
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Trinitarian Christianity says Jesus was fully God and Fully man. Did Jesus (the man) know th...

@Maverick's answer already gives you the Biblical basis of a "yes" answer, but if you want to move from a bunch of textual statements (though indispensable) to processing further philosophically to en …
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What is the meaning of the biblical term "divine nature", and what does it tell us about the...

I think Trinitarians and Jehovah Witnesses alike agree, that the term "God" refers to the unique being who is beyond our universe and who created our universe out of nothing. Trinitarians use the ter …
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Are the 3 Persons of the Trinity dependent on each other?

There are many Q&A that answer your questions already, please do a search. So this is just a short answer to resolve your perceived dilemma. Trinitarians conceive God in 3 persons as immanent relation …
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Which Jesus died or in what sense did Jesus ("God") die for our sins

First, it's important to conceptualize Jesus's death properly. Who died? Jesus Christ the Son of God. How did he die? Through his human nature. The rest of this answer tries to flesh this out in mor …
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Correlations between "Names of God", "God's attributes", and the 3 common ways of knowing Go...

When reading philosophical theology literature, I often come across 3 sets of terminologies to how a human being comes to (metaphysically) know God or to understand (conceptually) who God is: Biblica …
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Is believing in God for salvation the same as believing in Jesus as Christ?

Is believing in God for salvation the same as believing in Jesus as Christ? Does this misunderstand the Trinity? How about the Sawi people of Irian Jaya and their understanding of the Peace Child? S …
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God's presence among us

A Trinitarian answer would be in this lecture Divine Indwelling and the Presence of God where Fr. Legge discusses 3 ways God is present to us: 1) in the order of being; 2) through the Trinitarian life …
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What is the Christian Doctrine that balances God's self-sufficiency and perfection with His ...

The 2 problems You are correct that if there is something lacking, then there is no perfection in God, so God is perfect. It's also a well established teaching that creation is NOT to complete Him. F …
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Does the Christian church have an official position on Beauty?

Yes. From the High Middle Ages, the Catholic Church teaches that we can recognize the three transcendentals of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness as ... objective features of everything that exists, they a …
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