Attributes of God
Different religious traditions assign differing (though often similar) attributes and characteristics to God, including expansive powers and abilities, psychological characteristics, gender characteristics, and preferred nomenclature. The assignment of these attributes often differs according to the conceptions of God in the culture from which they arise. For example, attributes of God in Christianity, attributes of God in Islam, and the Thirteen Attributes of Mercy in Judaism share certain similarities arising from their common roots.
Main articles: The Attributes of God
The philosophy of religion recognizes the following as essential attributes of God:
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The Holy Trinity
Attributes of God in Christianity
When we speak of the attributes of God in Christianity, we are talking about those characteristics that helps us to understand who He truly is.
The most common way to classify God’s attributes divides them into:
- Incommunicable attributes (traits that God doesn’t share or “communicate” to others)
- Communicable attributes (traits that God shares or “communicates” with us).
God’s incommunicable attributes
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God’s communicable attributes
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Attributes of God Judaism
The single attributes are contained in the verses as follows:
- יְהוָה YHVH: compassion before a person sins;
- יְהוָה YHVH: compassion after a person has sinned;
- אֵל El: mighty in compassion to give all creatures according to their need;
- רַחוּם Raḥum: merciful, that humankind may not be distressed;
- וְחַנּוּן VeḤanun: and gracious if humankind is already in distress;
- אֶרֶךְ אַפַּיִם Erekh appayim: slow to anger;
- וְרַב-חֶסֶד VeRav ḥesed: and plenteous in kindness;
- וֶאֱמֶת VeEmet: and truth;
- נֹצֵר חֶסֶד לָאֲלָפִים Notzer ḥesed laalafim: keeping kindness unto thousands;
- נֹשֵׂא עָוֹן Noseh avon: forgiving iniquity;
- וָפֶשַׁע VaFeshah: and transgression;
- וְחַטָּאָה VeḤata’ah: and sin;
- וְנַקֵּה VeNakeh: and pardoning.

Allah’s Attributes
Attributes of God Islam
According to the religious methodology or the basic principles of religion, the Attributes of God in Islam consist of certain transcending and blessed concepts—whose transcendence and blessedness come from the Being Whom they describe; these describe God Almighty and are, in one sense, regarded as the veils of the Divine Essence. These blessed concepts, mentioned as the Attributes of the Divine Being, are either in the form of nouns, infinitives, adverbs, or of adjectives.
Attributes of God in Islam divided into 5 categories;
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Gender of God
The gender of God may be viewed as either a literal or an allegorical aspect of a deity who, in classical western philosophy, transcends bodily form. Polytheistic religions commonly attribute to each of the gods a gender, allowing each to interact with any of the others, and perhaps with humans, sexually. In most monotheistic religions, God has no counterpart with which to relate sexually. Thus, in classical western philosophy the gender of this one-and-only deity is most likely to be an analogical statement of how humans and God address, and relate to, each other. Namely, God is seen as begetter of the world and revelation which corresponds to the active (as opposed to the receptive) role in sexual intercourse.
- Gender and Religion
- Gender of God in Judaism
- Shekhinah (the presence of God is feminine)
- Gender of God in Christianity
- Jesus Christ
- Holy Wisdom (feminine)
- Christ the Logos
- Trinity (implicitly invoke masculine sex)
- God the Father (masculine)
- God the Son (masculine)
- God the Holy Spirit (feminine and masculine)
- Heavenly Mother (Mormonism)
- Gender of the Holy Spirit
- God and gender in Hinduism
- Gender of God in Sikhism
- God in Islam
- (Allah is gender-neutral )