1.5 The nature/attributes of God QUOTES

Question 1

6 words, Mark 10:27

Answer 1

“With God, all things are possible.”

Question 1

10 words, in Genesis 1:4

Answer 1

‘God said “Let there be light” and there was light’

Question 2

8 words, John 1:3

Answer 2

‘Without Him, nothing was made this is made.’

Question 3

23 words, St Anselm

Answer 3

“For God to sin would mean losing control of his actions which is illogical as it would mean he is not omnipotent.”

Question 4

20 words, Augustine

Answer 4

“You have made all times, and you are before all timesm and not at any time was there no time.”

Question 5

19 words, St Thomas Aquinas

Answer 5

“Whatever involves a contradiction is not held by omnipotence, for it cannot possible make sense of being possible.”

Question 6

5 words, St Thomas Aquinas

Answer 6

“God’s power can do anything.”

Question 7

15 words, St Thomas Aquinas

Answer 7

“Eternity is simultaneously whole whils time is not, eterninty measuring abiding existence, time measuring change.”

Question 8

8 words, Rene Descartes

Answer 8

“God can do anything, including what might seem impossible”

Question 9

19 words, Rene Descartes

Answer 9

“I do not think that we should ever say of anything that it cannot be brought about by God.”

Question 10

25 words, Richard Swinburne

Answer 10

“You can’t say God knows the events of AD 1995 unless it means that he exists in 1995 and knows in 1995 what is happening.”