Divine Immutability

I answer that, The idea of eternity follows immutability, as the idea of time follows movement, as appears from the preceding article. Hence, as God is supremely immutable, it supremely belongs to Him

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We next consider God's immutability, and His eternity following on His immutability. On the immutability of God there are two points of inquiry: (1) Whether God is altogether immutable? (2) Whether

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I answer that, God alone is altogether immutable; whereas every creature is in some way mutable. Be it known therefore that a mutable thing can be called so in two ways: by a power in itself; and by a

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Chapter 1.—God the Highest and Unchangeable Good, from Whom are All Other Good Things, Spiritual and Corporeal. The highest good, than which there is no higher, is God, and consequently He is unchang

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Chapter 6.—Shall God’s Nature Be Mutable, Sinful, Impious, Even Eternally Damned. All this, however, I am saying to a catholic: advising with him rather than teaching him. For I do not suppose that t

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Chapter 10.—Of the Simple and Unchangeable Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, One God, in Whom Substance and Quality are Identical. There is, accordingly, a good which is alone simple, and therefo

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Chapter 2.—Of the Eternal and Unchangeable Will of God. It is true that wicked men do many things contrary to God’s will; but so great is His wisdom and power, that all things which seem adverse to H

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Chapter 24.—It is Proved by the Testimonies of Scripture that God is Unchangeable. The Son of God Begotten, Not Made. Those things which our faith holds and which reason in whatever way has traced ou

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All things are far apart from God, not in place but in nature. In our case, thoughtfulness, and wisdom, and counsel come to pass and go away as states of being. Not so in the case of God: for with Him

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It cannot suffer change by any accidents BUT does not this Being, which has been shown to exist as in every way substantially identical with itself, sometimes exist as different from itself, at any r

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From the unchangeableness of your Saviour, you may be assured of your continuance in a state of grace. As to yourself, you are so changeable, that, if left to yourself, you would soon fall utterly awa

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3. He is now, and ever will be, the same that he ever has been, in the disposition and will which he exercises in his office. He is not changeable in his disposition, as men are that are called to any

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And as Christ does not alter his covenant, so he unchangeably fulfils it: he never departs in the least jot or tittle. Though he has given exceedingly great and precious promises to those that believe

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Chapter XV.—He Argues Against Adversaries Concerning the Heaven of Heavens. 18. “Will you say that these things are false, which, with a strong voice, Truth tells me in my inner ear, concerning the v

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Chapter XI.—That Creatures are Mutable and God Alone Immutable. 17. And I viewed the other things below Thee, and perceived that they neither altogether are, nor altogether are not. They are, indeed,

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Chapter XVI.—That No One But the Unchangeable Light Knows Himself. 19. For altogether as Thou art, Thou only knowest, Who art unchangeably, and knowest unchangeably, and willest unchangeably. And Thy

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Demonstrations by Syllogisms. That God the Word is Immutable. 1. We have confessed one substance of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and have agreed that it is immutable. If then there

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Sect. XII. — I OBSERVE further, not only how true these things are (concerning which I shall speak more at large hereafter out of the Scriptures) but also how religious, pious, and necessary it is to

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To understand this we must consider that everything, in so far as it is good, is willed by God. A thing taken in its primary sense, and absolutely considered, may be good or evil, and yet when some ad

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Chapter 6.—Concerning the Meaning of the Platonists in that Part of Philosophy Called Physical. These philosophers, then, whom we see not undeservedly exalted above the rest in fame and glory, have s

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