The Solitariness of God

The Solitariness of God

When the subject of the solitariness of God is discussed it is in the context that God was and is alone.  God, before creation and after creation, is alone in His power, holiness, and character.  As Pink says “God is solitary in his excellency” (Exodus 15:11).There is not and never will be a second choice or god, God is alone.  Pink uses Genesis 1:1 to convey the fact that there was a time when God existed alone.  I must stress that the mystery of the trinity still held true when God existed alone, for the trinity existed equally with God before creation and still exists with God after creation.  But God being the godhead in three persons still existed in solitary.  There was nothing else but God, no universe, no angels, no man.  There was no night or day; God was self-contained, self-sufficient and self-satisfied.  “Had a universe, had angels, had human beings been necessary to him in any way, they also had been called into existence from all eternity.”  When God created anything it did nothing to add to God or take away from God (Malachi 3:6).  His glory and divine nature existed before creations and existed after creation intact.

So if nothing was added to God or taken away from God because of creation why did God create anything?  “When God created he did so of his own good pleasure.  He created for his own manifestative glory.”

God was under no constraint, no obligation and no necessity to create…. What was it that moved him to predestinate his elect to the praise of the glory of grace?  It was done for the good pleasure of his will (Ephesians 1:5)

As God gains nothing from us “it is impossible to bring the Almighty under obligations to the creature.” (Romans 11:33-35). God who created us out of his good pleasure and will, who gains nothing from our existence, now is under no obligation to his creation.  It is through His goodness and pleasure that we have been given life and everything needed to sustain life.

Pink will go even further by indicating that “Christ added nothing to God in his essential being and glory, either by what he did or suffered.  He manifested the glory of God to us, but he added nothing to God.” (Psalm 16: 1-3).  God was perfectly blessed without man and could continue alone without making his glory known to the created.  Whether he should was determined solely by his own will. 

God in his majesty and solitariness cannot be found by searching.  God can only be known as he is revealed by the Holy Spirit through the Word.  The God of Scripture can only be known by those to whom he makes himself known. God cannot be known by the intellect for God is spirit and therefore can only be known spiritually.  But man is not spiritual, but dead in sin.  Man is dead to all that is spiritual and can only be awaken by the Holy Spirit shining the light of God into the heart of man.  (John 4:24, John 3:3, I Corinthians 2:14, 2 Corinthians 4:6)

What knowledge we have of God is still imperfect and fragmentary (2 Peter 3:18).  For the created can never fully know the mind of the creator.  It is the creator who instills everything that is needed to be considered human into the created.

To conclude this section, we must realize that God, creator of time, stands apart from all he created.  He is not subservient to man; he is not beholden to his creation.  We exist only because of God’s good pleasure and will.  Foolish attempts by man to contain God to fit their rational have distorted the true nature of God.  What has emerged today is a god that is weak and answers to man as if he is a servant to man.  What a fool who strives to do this, God cannot and will not be defined by a sinful world.  God is above all things and exists in his solitariness, for He cannot coexist with sin.