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Immutability

From: Doctrinal Definitions: A Handbook of Doctrinal Terms & Expressions in the New Testament

By: Stanley Bruce Anstey

Narrator: Chris Genthree

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This refers to God’s unchanging character—His unchangeableness (Mal. 3:6⁶For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. (Malachi 3:6); Heb. 1:12; 13:8¹²And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. (Hebrews 1:12)
⁸Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever. (Hebrews 13:8); James 1:17¹⁷Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. (James 1:17)). It is an attribute essential to deity. In connection with the Lord’s dealings with Abraham, there are two things that are said to be unchangeable: the Word of God’s promise, and the oath that He made (Heb. 6:17-18¹⁷Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: ¹⁸That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: (Hebrews 6:17‑18)).

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Doctrinal Definitions: A Handbook of Doctrinal Terms & Expressions in the New Testament

• Government of God, The

• Headships of Christ, The

• House of God, The

• Image & Likeness

• Immortality & Incorruptibility

• Immutability

• In Christ & Christ in You

• Incarnation of Christ, The

• Indignation, The

• Inheritance, The

• Intermediate State, The

• Israel of God, The

• Justification

• Kingdom, The

• Last Days, The

• Lordship of Christ, The

• Lord's Table & Lord's Supper, The

• Mercy & Mercies

• Millennium, The

• Mysteries, The

• New Creation

• New Man, The