Dear Carol,
I'm gonna quote Alexei here, he described it better than I did:
And another misconception about Islam is that Muslim doesn't know God or God is unknowable to Muslims!!!
I think we need to clarify one thing here:
Humans unable to see Infra-red or Ultra-Violet. Their hearing capability is also limited to sounds in the frequency range 20 to 20,000 hertz. And yet ironically, we ask "Why can't we see God? What is He made of?"
We just don't know God' ESSENCE. However we know God from His Glorious Signs and Attributes
How can we comprehend God's ESSENCE when we hardly know our own Antarctica continent???
"Nothing is like Him and He hears and sees all things.” [The Noble Qur'an 42:11].
Theologians say : "Whatever comes in your mind, it is not Allah."
Now, I have read some commentators who state that only some of Allah's attributes are eternal, others are not
They are all eternal Carol.Anything other than that is not Islamic. As you know people can always express their opinion, but some people forget the source, THE QURAN. If others say some of his attributes are not permenant then I believe this ain't Islamic.
Peace and thanks