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Swinburne Flashcards

1
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What does Swinburne say about God ?

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Everlasting meaning God runs by the same temporal timeline as we do

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Why is Swinburne view appealing ?

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Makes God more immanent rather than transcendent , he is within the material world

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What’s does God being immanent allow according to Swinburne ?

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Allows God to be more knowable and have a closer relationship with God

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Why will we have a closer relationship with God according to Swinburne ?

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God knows our present struggle and can intervene (divine action)

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How does Bothieus and Anselm see God in contrast to Swinburne ?

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  • God as eternal
  • transcendent not immanent
  • exists outside of time
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What does Swinburne retort against Anslem and Boethius ?

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  • impossible for God to interact if he experiences everything at once outside time
  • rejects God as being simultaneously present as plausible
  • an eternal God cannot love his creation like an everlasting God
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What does Swinburne see as plausible ?

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God being simultaneously present

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What is impossible for God to do ?

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Experience everything at once outside of time

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What can’t an eternal God do according to Swinburne?

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Love his creation the way an everlasting God can

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How does Swinburne see Gods intentions ?

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Are not fixed for eternity

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Fundamental to theism, what do they say about God ?

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There is a personal God who doesn’t have a material body

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What must God do to love us according to Swinburne ?

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Exist within time (everlasting)

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God doesn’t not have a material body but can do what ?

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Hear our prayer and and enable us to have free will

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Which God cannot love us

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  • Immutable
  • existing outside of time (eternal)
  • fixed intentions
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God of theism could have what according to Swinburne ?

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Free-will

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16
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What does God seem to be according for Swinburne ?

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Mutable, changing and reacting to our prayer

17
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Why does God react to our prayer , be mutable and changing ?

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Because he CHOSES to , so cannot know the future (divine foreknowledge)

18
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What temporal timeline does God more along according to Swinburne ?

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Same temporal timeline as us

19
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How is our past to God according to Swinburne ?

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Our past is the same past to God and the future unknown to us in unknown to God

20
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What does God not have ?

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Does not have divine foreknowledge

21
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What is the retort 1 of Swinburne ?

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Is a changeable God worth worshipping?

22
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How is God according to the retort of Swinburne

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Mutable and can change his mind

23
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Retort 1: of Swinburne
If God is mutable and can change his mind what does it make God

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Random and arbitrary

24
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What would Boethius and Anslem critise to Swinburne ?

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Swinburne everlasting God is not perfect by definition and is not worth worship why worship a falliable God

25
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What is a retort to Swinburne retort

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Bridging the Gap - both eternal and everlasting ( William Lane Craig )

26
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What does Craig’s view do to the debate of eternal and everlasting ?

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Bridges the eternal and everlasting debate

27
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What does William Lane Craig view say ?

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  • God was eternal
  • he created something ex-nihlo when he created the world
  • touched the temporal line and became everlasting
28
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What did God create

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Something ex-nihlo and created the world

29
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What did God touch to become everlasting?

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Touched the temporal line

30
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What is a retort to William Lane Craig

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When did God do this ?

31
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What is the main retort point for when did God do this ?

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What time did God decide to created the universe out of nothing (ex Nihlo) if time didn’t exist

32
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What is there no time-frame for God to do according to retort ?

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No time frame for God to chose to create something out of nothing if time doesn’t exist

33
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If God chose to create something out of nothing even though no time frame what does it do to his omniscience ?

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Self-limited his omniscience in terms of divine foreknowledge if he has chosen to go from outside time to within time

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