Good grief! Did I overlook that one?!?
I also overlooked the entire Trinity - but, remember, it was A-G who was listing Names. I was listing Attributes.
And I have an ulterior motive... ;-)
(A-G & BB -- do you see the makings of "Universal Now" in that list? And how about a "Heavenly reference frame"?) '-)
Well, it seems to me that a "Heavenly reference frame" must refer to the Word of God — Logos Alpha to Omega.
But such would not be an "attribute" of God, as are some other items on your list (e.g., that He is omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, unconstrained, eternal, designer, etc.).
The common thread underlying all these "attributes" of God is that all are conceived from the reference point of human experience, attempting to find a suitable language by which insights of the Infinite can be conveyed, communicated, to finite minds.
Yet those who have had epiphanies of God, visions, become aware that no language exists that can fully convey such experiences. A common report is that such experiences of the Presence of the Lord are not even given in human language, but only through images, "graphical" representations. (This squares with my own experiences of this type.)
And there is simply no way to "reduce" such experiences to ordinary human language. If one tries, one only "reduces" God to human categories of understanding; and if that happens, one is no longer even speaking of God as He IS in Himself — absolute eternal Being. There is NO human analogue of this to speak from.
We try to understand the "nature" of God; but God is not "natural." HE is supernatural, "Beyond" what the human mind can conceive.
Oh Lord, you are not only that than which a greater cannot be conceived, you are also greater than what can be conceived. — Anselm of Cantebury, Saint and Doctor of the ChurchBut as Anselm knew, the felt "pull" of the Divine is a human existential fact — for those who have the "ears to hear" and thus are open to such experiences.
And so, Anselm begs God:
Speak to my desirous soul what you are, other than what it has seen, that it may clearly see what it desires.Question: How does one convey such experiences in terms of the language of "instrumental reason" so celebrated today?
Answer: One can't, without deforming God and the human experience of God as directly felt Presence....
It seems to me the Eternal Now is a Name, not an attribute, of God. Pure BEING is not an attribute.... It "pre-exists" attributes.
But the Eternal Now is something that human beings can "sense" — if only fleetingly....
Well, words really can't convey what I'm trying to speak to. Obviously.
Man has LIMITS which God does not have.