God knows all things. The fancy word for this is “omniscience.” It’s one of God’s incommunicable attributes, and it’s the attribute of God we discuss in more depth during this conversation. Author and speaker Jen Wilkin joins us to talk about her book None Like Him, specifically looking at God’s all-knowingness.

 

Who’s Our Guest?

Jen Wilkin is a speaker, writer, and teacher of women’s Bible studies. During her seventeen years of teaching, she has organized and led studies for women in home, church, and parachurch contexts. Jen and her family are members of the Village Church in Flower Mound, Texas.

Episode Links

Check out Jen’s book, None Like Him: 10 Ways God is Different from Us (And Why That’s a Good Thing).

Also, check out Jen’s blog at jenwilkin.net.

Read It

*Below is an edited transcription of the audio conversation.

With me today is author and speaker, Jen Wilkin. Thanks so much for taking the time to chat with me today, Jen.

Oh, it’s my pleasure. Thanks for having me on.

First thing is, who are you? How did you meet Jesus? What does your day-to-day life look like right now?

I’m a wife and a mom. I have four kids, three who are in college and one who is a senior in high school. So I’m almost an empty nester. I have been a believer since I was a child. I’m a terrible Southern Baptist because I can’t point to a specific date when I was saved, but they have allowed me to stay anyway.

I am an author and a Bible teacher. I write Bible studies that are used predominantly by women. Historically I have written them for a community Bible study that I led in the community, and now I am on staff at my church. And so we are resourcing the people in the local church.

Very very cool. So is that like your day-to-day job? Like, today you’ll be working on that kind of endeavour?

Yes, I’m actually editing a curriculum on the second half of Matthew as soon as I get off of our interview.

Oh man, that’s awesome. All right, so let’s just jump in here. Last year you wrote None Like Him, which really did seem to be kind of highly appreciated across the board which is great. In a simple and straightforward way, what is this book about? And also, why did you write it?

It’s a book about the incommunicable attributes of God, the things that are true of God that are only true of Him and cannot be true of humans. So we know that we’re created in the image of God, and there’s a lot of discussion about what it means to be an image bearer, but much of what it means is that there are things that are true about God which can be reflected in us, things like that

He is gracious and that He is long suffering and that He is merciful.

But this book is actually taking a look at the attributes that are only true of Him, that He is infinite, that He is self-existent, self-sufficient, eternal, et cetera.

So it’s focusing on that first half. You will not be surprised to learn that I actually just submitted a manuscript for the communicable attributes to do as a followup.

But I felt like it was important to start with the incommunicable ones because I think they’re the ones that we, most of us, have the least developed vocabulary around, have spent probably the least amount of time meditating on. And so I wanted to draw our attention to those first and foremost because

they are what render up for us a transcendent vision o...