Theological Term of the Week
Wednesday, September 30, 2009 at 10:34PM
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veracity
God’s perfection whereby “all of his knowledge and words are both true and the final standard of truth”1; that perfection of [God’s] being by virtue of which He fully answers to the idea of the Godhead, is perfectly reliable in His revelation, and sees things as they really are”2; also called truthfulness.

Learn more:

  1. Richard L. Strauss: Let God Be True!
  2. John Gill: Of the Veracity of God
  3. Wayne Grudem: The Communicable Attributes of God: Wisdom, Truthfulness and Faithfulness (mp3)
  4. From my attributes of God posts: God’s Truthfulness

1Systematic Theology, Wayne Grudem
2Systematic Theology, Louis Berkhof

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