17. What is God’s self-existence?
That attribute of God by which He is the self-sufficient ground of His own existence and being. Negatively expressed, independence says only what God is not. Self-existence is precisely the adequate affirmation here. Proof texts: Acts 17:25; John 5:26.
~Geerhardus Vos~
Reformed Dogmatics ed. Richard B. Gaffin and Richard de Witt, trans. Annemie Godbehere et al., vol. 1 (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2013), 13.
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The great theological “Biblicist”: Geerhardus Vos! See btw, the book: The Letters of Geerhardus Vos! (P&R 2005)… Personal letters to Kuyper, to Bavinck, to Warfield, with some to Machen. And even a few to Donald MacKenzie and Ned Stonehouse!