What Is God Flashcards
(22 cards)
Theism
The belief that there is a god or gods
Theist
Someone who believes that there is a god or gods
Monotheism
The belief that there is one god
Polytheism
The belief that there is many god
Atheism
The belief that there’s no such thing as god
Atheist
A person who does not believe in god
Ineffable
Can’t describe god in human language
Omnipresent
God everywhere all of The time
Omnipotent
All powerful
Omniscient
God is all knowing
Eternal
Always has existed always will exist
Immanent
Interacts with the world
Transcendent
Belief that god is not limited in the way humans are
Via Negativa
Maimonides theory that you only talk about god by saying what he is not
What did two Ancient Greek ideas did Aristotle reject?
The belief in many gods
God being human
What does Aristotle call god
The Prime Mover
What did Aristotle think god was
A force and powerful energy that doesn’t interact with us and doesn’t know us as individuals
Why do philosophers think it is hard to show god in art?
Because he is ineffable
Pluralism
The belief that all religions are expression of the same god e.g the elephant and the blind men
Who was John Hick?
British philosopher, pluralism
Omniscience
He know what we are choosing, why we a re choosing it and our past choices.”all knowing”
Free will
The freedom to choose what to do and have power over their choice
