The Father shares certain communicable attributes of God with both His human and spirit families to empower and equip them for service to Himself and to mankind.
Spirit beings and human beings, both of God’s families, require some level of certain abilities and communicable attributes of God, in order to serve Him.
There is, however, only one eternal, not created, spirit being and that is God the Father, God the Son and the Holy Spirit as one. All other spirit beings were created by Jesus and for Him.
Psalm 90:2 Lexham English Bible
2 Before the mountains were born and you brought forth the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
Psalm 148:1-5 Lexham English Bible
Let All Creation Praise Yahweh
148 Praise Yah. Praise Yahweh from the heavens; praise him in the heights. 2 Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all his hosts. 3 Praise him, sun and moon; praise him, all stars of light. 4 Praise him, highest heavens, and waters above the heavens. 5 Let them praise the name of Yahweh, because he commanded and they were created.
Love: God's love is pure and holy, and humans are capable of love, though their versions are limited compared to God's.
Goodness: God gives good gifts, and because of his goodness, humans can and should be generous toward others.
Justice: While God is perfectly just, humans can strive to act lawfully and emulate his justice in their own lives.
Mercy: God is merciful, and humans are capable of showing mercy to one another.
Wisdom: Humans have wisdom, but it is imperfect and affected by sin, unlike God's perfect knowledge and wisdom.
Truthfulness: God is truthful, and this is an attribute that can be reflected in human
The writers of the Old Testament clearly believed that everything, the heavens and earth and everything in or on them was created by Yahweh. Though the Creator shared certain cumminacable attributes of God, in limited degree, with both spirit beings and human beings, both have been created by God, they are not eternal, nor are they immortal
Nehemiah 9:6 Lexham English Bible
6 “You alone are Yahweh. You alone have made the heavens, the heavens of the heavens, and all of their army, the earth and all that is in it, the waters and all that is in them. You give life to all of them, and the army of the heavens worship you.
Psalm 33:6 Lexham English Bible
6 By the word of Yahweh the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
The created spirit beings are not immortal. Their continuing existence is entirely dependent on God’s will.
Psalm 82:6-7 Lexham English Bible
6 I have said, “You are gods, and sons of the Most High, all of you. 7 However, you will die like men, and you will fall like one of the princes.”
All rebellious “elohim,” spirit beings, will have their existence terminated in God’s own time and in God’s discretion.
God is the only being whose existence is in control of his own will. God’s families, his created spirit beings and his created human beings, whatever they are, whatever their abilities are, are contingent on God’s creating them and God sharing some of his abilities and communicable attributes of God, with them.
God’s created spirit beings and human beings are connected to each other and to their creator.
Genesis 1:26 Lexham English Bible
26 And God said, “Let us make humankind in our image and according to our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of heaven, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every moving thing that moves upon the earth.”
This verse is not a reference to the trinity, rather God is informing his spirit family of his intention to create an additional family, human beings.
The Father shares some degree of communicable attributes of God to both His spirit being imagers and also human being imagers.
Psalm 8:3-8 Lexham English Bible
3 When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which you set in place— 4 what is a human being that you think of him? and a child of humankind that you care for him? 5 And you made him a little lower than heavenly beings, and with glory and with majesty you crowned him. 6 You make him over the works of your hands; all things you have placed under his feet: 7 sheep and cattle, all of them, and also the wild animals of the field, 8 the birds of the sky and the fish of the sea, everything that passes along the paths of seas.
Yet the Creator shared his communicable attributes of God, with us as he first did with them. What are members of the heavenly host like? They are like God and like us. Think about these communicable attributes of God that we share with our Creator: intelligence, creativity, emotions, rationality, and volition. Our fellow imagers, the members of the heavenly host, have them as well, because they are also his imagers.
Our embodiment naturally means we live with significant limitations that unembodied intelligent beings don’t. Because of what happened in Eden, our lifespans are severely curtailed. We die after a brief existence in the world God made for us. It is only at that point that we experience the presence of God, presuming we are part of his family through redemptive grace. We are thus far less intelligent, creative, and wise than the members of the spiritual world. We simply do not know what they have learned through access to God and lifespans of many eons. But what they are and know is part of our own destiny in Christ.