Originally posted by @fmf
dj2becker: God is [b]"the only eternal, independent and self-existing Being, whose purposes, actions and existence spring from Himself without foreign motive or influence."
Adam Clark: God is "the eternal, independent, and self-existent Being: the Being whose purposes and actions spring from Himself, without foreign motive or influence..."
Your integrity problem runs very deep when in cahoots with your pride.[/b]
Thanks for sharing your perspective.
This is the full definition that I only remembered a part of:
God is “the eternal, independent, and self-existent Being; the Being whose purposes and actions spring from Himself, without foreign motive or influence; he who is absolute in dominion; the most pure, the most simple, the most spiritual of all essences; infinitely perfect; and eternally self-sufficient, needing nothing that he has made; illimitable in his immensity, inconceivable in his mode of existence, and indescribable in his essence; known fully only by himself, because an infinite mind can only be fully comprehended by itself. In a word, a Being who, from his infinite wisdom, cannot err or be deceived, and from his infinite goodness, can do nothing but what is eternally just, and right, and kind.” [Adam Clarke in Cyclopaedia, vol. 3