Crossword clues for immutability
immutability
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immutability \Im*mu`ta*bil"i*ty\, n. [L. immutabilitas: cf. F.
immutabilit['e].]
The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness.
--Heb. vi. 17.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from Latin immutabilitas, from immutabilis (see immutable).\n\nNought may endure but Mutability.
[Shelley]
Wiktionary
n. 1 The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness. 2 (context computer English) The state of being unchangeable in the memory after creation.
WordNet
n. the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species" [syn: immutableness, fixity] [ant: mutability, mutability]
Wikipedia
The Immutability of God is an attribute where “God is unchanging in his character, will, and covenant promises."
The Westminster Shorter Catechism says, ’ God is a spirit, whose being, wisdom power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth are infinite, eternal, and unchangeable.” Those things do not change. A number of Scriptures attest to this idea (e.g. Num. 23:19; 1 Sam. 15:29; Ps. 102:26; Mal. 3:6; 2 Tim. 2:13; Heb. 6:17–18; Jam. 1:17)
God's immutability defines all his other attributes: he is immutably wise, he cannot but be merciful, good, and gracious. The same may be said about his knowledge: God is almighty (having all power), God is omnipotent (having all power), God is omnipresent (present everywhere), God is omniscient (knows everything), eternally and immutably so. Infiniteness and immutability in God are mutually supportive and imply each other. An infinite and changing God is inconceivable; indeed it is a contradiction in definition.
Usage examples of "immutability".
Louis Quinze drawing-room, with its small balcony, always flowered with hanging geraniums in the summer, and now with pots of Lilium Auratum, he was struck by the immutability of human affairs.
He no despot, because He exercises only His sovereign right, and His own essential wisdom, goodness, justness, rectitude, and immutability, are the highest of all conceivable guaranties that His exercise of His power will always be right, wise, just, and good.
Let us now see whether the several facts and rules relating to the geological succession of organic beings, better accord with the common view of the immutability of species, or with that of their slow and gradual modification, through descent and natural selection.
How is this compatible with that perfect immutability and simplicity which all true Theists ascribe to the Deity?
Arncaster went to the Gypsies, refunded the balance of whatever sum they had agreed upon for rent, and had undoubtedly turned a deaf ear to any protests they might have made (Halleck was thinking specifically of the young man with the bowling pins, who apparently had not as yet comprehended the immutability of his station in life).