What an amazing thought! God’s creation must be a result of his joyful delight to share and display his glory in all the universe and with all his creatures! God’s creation of the universe-and human beings-must be the abundant, joyful, gracious overflow of his goodness and kindness. He wasn’t lonely without us! So, why create? He didn’t need the universe in order to be happy. The doctrine of aseity tells us that God’s decision to create cannot be because of any deficiency in God. Is that correct? Why would God choose to create the universe and human beings? One of the kids asked the Sunday school teacher, “Why did God make Adam and Eve?” I remember her answering something like this: “God made Adam and Eve because he was ‘lonely’ and he wanted people to be with him and be his friends.” I remember learning about creation (Genesis 1–2) in a Sunday school class when I was probably 6 or 7 years old. What does God’s aseity mean for the creation of the world? Now, here’s how I found this doctrine connecting with other systematic theological categories. It goes without saying that this is not a “communicable” attribute of God (humans don’t share this attribute with God!). When we’re talking about God’s aseity, we are referring to the way that God has existed from eternity past completely independently of anything else-completely “of himself”-and therefore satisfied and delighted in himself. He is completely self-originating and dependent on nothing other than himself. To talk about the aseity of God, then, is to say that God is from and of himself.
It’s a compound word made up of two smaller words: “a” ( from) and “-se” ( self). God’s aseity refers to God being eternally and completely “of himself.” The word comes from the Latin. but they do tend to remember what I am most excited about!” God’s aseity was a doctrine that I still remember Dr. Carson say many times: “I’ve learned over the years that my students don’t remember everything I teach them. He was my advisor during my seminary years, and I heard Dr. The first time I heard the word aseity was while sitting in a seminary class at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School with Dr.
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