Covenant Reformed News – March 2012 • Volume XIII, Issue 23
This article from Covenant Reformed News explores God's eternality as a foundational doctrine essential to understanding the Trinity, God's attributes, and His eternal decree. The author argues that God's eternity—His existence without beginning, ending, or succession—is demonstrated through creation itself, and defends this truth against evolutionary timescales while also illuminating its significance for Christology and the incarnation of Christ.
The Eternal God (3) The truth that God is eternal, that is, without beginning, without ending and without succession, is vital not only for the Trinity and the truth of God’s attributes but also for the biblical and Reformed doctrine of His eternal decree. Scripture clearly teaches that, before the foundation of the world, Jehovah determined an all-encompassing plan for all things (Eph. 1:11). But if there were time in God, surely it would have taken Him time to decree all things? And if the...