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Arguments, Attributes, Problem of Evil (44 cards)

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Attributes

Numbers 23:19

God = immutable and eternal

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God is not human that he should change his mind

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Attributes

Isaiah 55:8

Can’t know God

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For your thoughts are not my thoughts, neither are your ways my ways

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Attributes

Richard Swinburne, The Coherence of Theism

God as eternal and sempiternal

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A very lifeless thing

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Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

Free Will

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God’s foreknowledge does not impose necessity on things

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Attributes

Friedrich Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith

Omniscience

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The one or the other’s freedom is thereby [not] endangered

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Attributes

Anselm, Proslogion VII

Omnipotence

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God can do nothing by virtue of impotence

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Anthony Kenny, The God of the Philosophers

Omnipotence

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Posession of all logically possible powers which it is logically possible for a being with the attributes of God to possess

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Attributes

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Criticism of Cartesian Voluntarism

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Whatever implies a contradiction cannot be a word

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Attributes

David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

Omnipotence and Problem of Evil

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If God metes out infinite punishment for finite crimes, then God is omnivindictive

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Attributes

Isaiah 38

Simpiternal God

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[King Hezekiah about to die but prays to God, and God adds 15 years of life]

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Attributes

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

God can do anything logically possible

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Everything that does not imply a contradiction in terms

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Attributes

Peter Vardy, The Puzzle of God

Criticism of Cartesian Voluntarism

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This could not be a God worth worshipping

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Attributes

Descartes, Letter to Antoine Arnauld

Cartesian Voluntarism

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Only involve a contradiction in my conception

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Attributes

Richard Swinburne, The Coherence of Theism

McEar

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Absurd

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Arguments - Ontological

Gaunilo, Pro Insipiente

Against Anselm

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It must be said that the island exists

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Arguments - Ontological

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

2 Criticisms of Anselm, three quotes

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[Reject] Subject and definitional alike
Existence is not a predicate
All existential statements are synthetic

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Arguments - Teleological

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Order and Purpose to the World - Qua Purpose

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They achieve their end, not fortuitously, but designedly

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Arguments - Teleological

William Paley, Natural Theology

Complexity = Care

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We have no reason to fear our being forgotten

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Arguments - Teleological

Isaac Newton, Principia

Design and God

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[Creation] could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being

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Arguments - Cosmological

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

1st Way

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Nothing can be reduced from potentiality to actuality [except by something in a state of actuality]

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Arguments - Cosmological

Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

2nd Way

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A first efficient cause

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Arguments - Cosmological

David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

World and God

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Why may not several deities combine in contriving and framing the world

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Arguments - Teleological

J. S. Mill, Three Essays on Religion

Natural Evil and Design - Qua Regularity

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Not even on the most distorted theory of good [could the world look like the work of an omnibenevolent God]

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Arguments - Cosmological

Bertrand Russell, Why I am not a Christian

Cosmological x3

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Different Logical Spere
Brute Fact
I should just say that the universe is there and that is all

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# Arguments - Cosmological Frederick Copleston | 3rd Way
A reason external to themselves
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# Arguments - Cosmological David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | 3rd Way
The words... necessary existence have no meaning | If you can concieve it not existing
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# Problem of Evil Friedrich Schleiermacher, The Christian Faith | Against Augustinian Theodicy
God would create flawlessly
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# Problem of Evil Genesis 1:31 | World was perfect
God saw all that he had made and behold it was very good
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# Problem of Evil Augustine | Reason for Privatio Boni
I thought it better to believe you had created no evil [rather than] it came from you
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# Problem of Evil Romans 3:8 | Consequentialism and Soul Making
Do not do evil so that good may come
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# Problem of Evil William Rowe, The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism | Evidential Problem
Such suffering suggests an absent God
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# Problem of Evil John Hick, Evil and the God of Love | World with no evil or difficulty
Morally static
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# Problem of Evil D.Z. Philips, The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Good | Criticisms of Irenaeus' instrumentalism
Like rescuing a prostitue from degradation by telling her to charge higher fees
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# Problem of Evil Augustine | Free Will
The evil of mankind has sprung from the free choice of the will
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# Problem of Evil Augustine, Enchiridion | Privatio Boni
What is it that we call evil but the absence of good?
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# Attributes CCC | Omnibenevolence and Anonymous Christianity
Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the Gospel... may achieve eternal salvation
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# Attributes Philippians 7:2 | Kenosis
He made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant
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# Problem of Evil Irenaeus, Against Heresies | Irenaean Theodicy
Moral and spiritual growth comes through response to challenges
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# Problem of Evil Richard Swinburne, The Coherence of Theism | Free Will Defence
The less God allows men to bring about large scale horrors, the less freedom and responsibility he gives them
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# Arguments - Teleological Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion | World's Purpose
No purpose in mind
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# Arguments - Teleological William Paley, Natural Theology | Teleological Argument
There cannot be design without a designer
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# Arguments - Teleological David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion | Teleological Argument
The world is more like a cabbage than a machine
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# Arguments - Cosmological Elizabeth Anscombe, Whatever has a beginning must have a cause: Hume's argument exposed | Response to Hume's charge of fallacy of composition
Without absurdity of contradiction
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# Attributes Elonore Stump | Eternity and action
God cannot alter the past but he can alter the course of the battle of Waterloo

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