Nature of God

The Old Catholic Church affirms God as the one, infinite, eternal, all-knowing, all-powerful Creator and Sustainer of all reality. God possesses all perfections in their fullness and is utterly transcendent, yet intimately present to creation through divine providence and sustenance. The nature of God is disclosed through Scripture, apostolic tradition, and the church's sacramental life.

God is understood through classical attributes: eternality (without beginning or end), immutability (unchanging in being and will, though responsive to creation), omniscience (complete knowledge of all actuals and possibilities), omnipotence (ability to accomplish all divine purposes), holiness (perfect freedom from moral defect), justice (true judgment), and love (self-gift and desire for creation's good). Divine simplicity is affirmed: God's essence is not composed of parts; God's attributes are identical with God's being.

Following the Catholic tradition, God is personal (not an impersonal force) and exists necessarily—not by creation or dependence but by the divine nature itself. God's nature transcends spatial and temporal categories while God's omniscience includes perfect knowledge of all temporal events and human free choices. This classical theistic framework provides the foundation for Christian faith in a God worthy of worship.