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Need is a Creature's Word

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The Doctrine of God's Aseity and Self-Suffificenty   “To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken of the Creator. God has a voluntary relation to everything He has made, but He has no Necessary relation to anything outside of Himself. His interest in His creatures arises from His sovereign good pleasure, not from any need those creatures can supply nor from any completeness they can bring to Him who is complete in himself.” ―  A.W. Tozer,  The Knowledge of the Holy Today we will address two additional attributes of God, His Aseity and His Self-Sufficiency. Because these two are so closely related. I will address them together. Both Aseity and Self-Sufficiency are attributes of God that express is perfection within Himself, and by Himself and even for Himself. The Un-Caused One The notion of Aseity is the highest concept of God that can be imagined by man....