The ultimate difference between God and other beings lies in the fact that creatures are derived, contingent, and dependent. However, God is not dependent. He has the power of being in and of Himself; He does not derive it from something else. This attribute is called God’s aseity, from the Latin a sei, meaning “from oneself.” Scripture tells us that in God “we live and move and have our being” (Acts 17:28), but nowhere are we told that God has His being in man. He has never needed us to survive
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