nature and attributes of God Flashcards

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Descartes

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God can do absolutely anything because his existence is prior to the laws of logic.

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Augustine

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Omnipotence doesn’t mean that God can do everything, but that he can do anything that he wants to.

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William Lane Craig on omnipotence

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God can do anything that is logically possible. He is only limited by logic.

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William Lowe

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The reason God can’t change isn’t because he lacks power but because this would be against logic.

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Swinburne

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God can’t do logical contradictions because logical contradictions aren’t things.

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Vardy

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God created a universe in a way this his ability to act is necessarily limited. In order for us to have free will, God limited his omnipotence severely.

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John Macquarie

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God limits his powers out of love for humanity.

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Hartshorne

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God isn’t omnipotent but unsurpassably great. It would unimpressive to come first in a race when you’re the only one racing.

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Michael Dumbest

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God’s knowledge is vastly different from ours. He has no particular point of view nor location in the world. He knows by comprehension of all truths.

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Swinburne free will

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We can’t have a loving relationship with God is he knows our future because the relationship becomes meaningless.

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Luis de Molina

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Omniscience can be understood as compromising middle knowledge, ie knowledge of what would happen if certain choices were made.

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Anselm

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Although God knows the future as unchanged, it is changeable by our choices.

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Schleiermacher

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Similarly to how a close friend could know what you would do in a certain situation, but you would still have free will, God can be omniscient whilst still allowing people to act freely.

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Kant

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Free will is essential for making moral decisions.

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D.Z. Phillips

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Argues that eternity isn’t related to the notion of time, but instead is expressive of a qualitative nature. We cannot understand this.

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Bible and time

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Refers to God doing thing in time for example, he created the world in six days in Genesis.

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Augustine

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Time only exists within the created universe. Because God created the universe, he is outside of time. He is eternal.

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Nicholas Wolterstoff

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Argues that human sins arise within the context of time. For God to be free of this burden, which he is, he must be eternal.

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Peter Geach

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God is everlasting as he interacts with the universe, he is the creator and sustainer. He compares it to the analogy of the grand chess master.

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Hartshorne

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God doesn’t force people to fit in with real plans. Instead, he is within time (everlasting), acting, responding, loving, rejecting and suffering, in the same way we are.

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William Lane Craig on eternity

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God is within time.

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Swinburne on time

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In the Old Testament there is examples of God acting within time.

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Kotarbinski

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To talk of a timeless God is incoherent. To exist there has to be a sense of duration into it.

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Swinburne on eternity

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God existing within time is much more coherent as he must do so that we can have a relationship with him.