The Relation Between God’s Nature and God Himself By the term nature I refer to the complex of attributes or characteristics that belongs to or inheres in any given entity and makes it to be what it is in distinction from everything else. Sometimes God’s attributes are represented as standing in relation to God in the same sense that pins are related to a pin cushion. This is erroneous thinking in the extreme. While a pin, which has a nature all its own, may be added or removed from a pin cushion,