Featured What is God's highest virtue?

Never thought about it that way. Good observation.

 

There is no highest virtue with God. He is virtue.

 

When God saves us, He gets the glory.

When we do what He commands us to do, through the Spirit, He gets the glory.

When He receives us into heaven, He gets the glory.

When we shout praises unto Him throughout eternity, He gets the glory.

It's all about Him, and not about us.

 

To judge God or to evaluate His virtues requires a standard outside of God Himself. And there is nothing that exists outside of God. In Him we live and move and have our being.

He is. It's as He said, "I am."

 

If by virtue we mean any good characteristic, I'd say God being a necessary being is his highest virtue. Qualifies all the rest.

 

Thomas Goodwin (Westminster Divine):

"All the attributes in God are subjected to his love, and that is the great prevailing attribute that sways all."

http://books.google.com/books?id=JaEGqIX9JBUC&pg=PA152

 

I would say love

 

I would say that to answer the question int he op is way above our paygrade. And any answer given is nothing more than personal preference. Scripture does not speak to this.

 

To know God and to know ourselves.

By what standard to you judge God? Himself. You seem to have a concept of the moral law as if it is a self-existing, measurement independent of God. It isn't. And if God were other than He is, the moral law we know could not exist and we could not know it. There is no "higher" or "lower" this or that in God. The moral judgment is the judgment He pronounced. The LORD is good.

And because He could swear by no greater, He sware by Himself.

If God, in whom all things—ALL things—exist, could lie, then any lie He told would be just and good and true.

If I say a man has blonde hair, that is not an evaluation. If I say, God is, that is not an evaluation.

I did. I said God is love. God is true. But you're asking us to compare His virtues, as if there are ranks in them, or if one virtue is possessed more than another as they are in men.

That cannot be done. Who is the greater Person in the Trinity?

PUh-leeze.

 

Here's another one I need a "Like" button for ...

We can safely and very nearly unequivocally say that our greatest virtue is Love. We don't know enough about God to be able to say what His greatest virtue is, given we only know Him in relationship to our most desperate need.

 

God gives his highest virtue when he calls himself "I am".
His greatest virtue is that he is himself and there is no other like him.
He is separate from all others - we call this holiness.

Glory flows freely from the virtue of holiness.

Rob

PS GreekTim.:
Have you been reading "Desiring God" recently?
I thought I saw a change in your signature line recently.

 

Without offering offense, I have to say that is not His virtue. That's who He is. Those are, by definition, necessarily different. He is God, and there is no other, without doubt. But there are multiple virtues, characteristics, and nuances in His nature. The OP asks which of those is His greatest.

 

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