Matthew Barrett

"Matthew Barrett leads us to marvel at both how much and how little we know of God."--Tim Challies, blogger at challies.com; author of Visual Theology For too long, Christians have domesticated God, bringing him down to our level as if he is a God who can be tamed. But he is a God who is high and lifted up, the Creator rather than the creature, someone than whom none greater can be conceived. If God is the most perfect, supreme being, infinite and incomprehensible, then certain perfect-making attributes must be true of him. Perfections like aseity, simplicity, immutability, impassibility, and eternity shield God from being crippled by creaturely limitations. At the same time, this all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-wise God accommodates himself, exhibiting perfect holiness, mercy, and love as he makes known who he is and how he will save us. The attributes of God show us exactly why God is worthy of worship: there is none like him. Join Matthew Barrett as he rediscovers these divine perfections and finds himself surprised by the God he thought he knew. "Matthew Barrett's excellent book lays out in clear, accessible terms what the biblical, historic, ecumenical doctrine of God is, why it matters, and why its abandonment by great swathes of the Protestant world is something that needs correction."--Carl R. Trueman, professor, Grove City College; author of Grace Alone "Perhaps not since R. C. Sproul has there been a treatment of such deep theology with such careful devotion and accessibility. Read this book. And stagger."--Jared Wilson, director of content strategy, Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; managing editor, For the Church; author of The Gospel-Driven Church "The knowledge of God is the soil in which Christian piety flourishes. I am grateful for the publication of None Greater and pray it will be a source of growth in godliness among those captivated by its vision of God's supremacy."--Scott Swain, president and James Woodrow Hassell Professor of Systematic Theology, Reformed Theological Seminary-Orlando; author of Reformed Catholicity

The Undomesticated Attributes of God

None Greater

Greg Stone

Whether or not God's oath, on which our salvation depends, is reliable depends entirely on the unchanging nature of his holy character. 

Westminster Confession: What is the chief and highest end of man? Man's chief and highest end is to glorify God, and fully to enjoy him for ever." 

"Happiness cannot perish as long as God lives. He is the first and the last; the first of all delights, nothing before him; the last of all pleasures, nothing beyond him." But will our delight in this God grow stale? "The enjoyment of God will be as fresh and glorious after many ages, as it was at first. God is eternal, and eternity knows no change; there will then be the fullest possession without any decay in the object enjoyed. 

Our enjoyment of God for eternity will be altogether differ- ent. We will enjoy him without the threat of such joy passing by and being no more. We will desire him but without the fear that it may never come. The happiness of eternity will be as if it is al- ways present, because the eternal God we enjoy does not change, and the dispensing of his glory never wanes. "Time is fluid, but eternity is stable; and after many ages the joys will be as savory and satisfying as if they had been but that moment first tasted by our hungry appetites.”

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