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3. RE, Philsophy, AW2 > (1) The nature or attributes of God > Flashcards

(1) The nature or attributes of God Flashcards

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(KT) Omnipotent

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All powerful

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(KT) Omniscient

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All knowing

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(KT) Omnibenevolent

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All loving and all good

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(KT) Eternal

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Timeless, a temporal, being outside constraints of time

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(KT) Everlasting

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Sempiternal, lasting forever on the same timeline as humanity

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(KT) Free Will

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The ability to make independent choices between real options

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(KT) Existentialism

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A way of thinking that emphasises personal freedom of choice

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(KT) Immutable

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Incapable of changing or being affected

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Bible Quote for God’s intervention in the world

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  • Genesis 6:13

- “God said to Noah, ‘I am going to put an end to all people’

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Plato influence on belief of God

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  • Eternal realm

- Pleasure not purpose of existence

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Aristotle influence on belief of God

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  • Telos of the universe

- God is caused

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Key difference between Ancient Greek and Judeo-Christian

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  • Greek is philosophically proved, J-C is belief and trust
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Jewish Influence on God

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  • Old T is anthropomorphised (made to seem like a human being)
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2 key scholars who agree God is omnipotent

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  • Anselm, God is omnipotent as TTWNGCBC

- Descartes, Claimed God has ‘all perfections’ + perfect power

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J.L Mackie’s view of God’s Omnipotence

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  • incoherent

- God can not do anything possible, omnipotence not attribute

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Descartes view of God’s Omnipotence

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  • God can do anything, he is source of logic not subject to logic
  • We are limited
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1 problem + one scholar against Descartes view of omnipotence

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  • problem of Free Will

- C.S Lewis says statements still are illogical even if u add ‘God can’

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Aquinas view on God defying what is logically possible

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  • Misuse of language

- can do things which do not contradict reason

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Peter Vardy’s view of God’s power

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  • purposely created epistemic distance + limit power (eg. Jesus)
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Brian Davies- Problem of Free Will

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  • If God is omniscient, he sees every event, can’t be wrong and that event is necessary
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John Calvin predestination impact on God’s omniscience

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  • God has a plan for everyone
  • Plan for going Heaven and He’ll
  • No free will
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Schleiermacher’s answer to problem of free will + problem

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  • God knows path, but doesn’t determine

- God would have to know first action to guess next

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Boethius view of God’s eternity

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  • If God created in time, creation would be in God’s memory

- Not compatible with God because a perfect memory of event is not as perfect as a present reality

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Boethius’ solution

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  • God is eternal, we are finite
  • God views all time simultaneously
  • ‘lofty peak’
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How Boethius solves free will problems

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  • ‘Future’ does not exist for God
  • Providential Knowledge, preserves creation
  • free will independent from God’s knowledge
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2 strengths of Boethius’ solution

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  • Conserves omniscience, whilst having free will

- Consistent with omnipotent, timeless God would be perfect and unlimited

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2 weaknesses of Boethius’ view

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  • God could not enter time

- God limited as he can’t see time through how we see it

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Anselm’s four dimensionalism

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  • Time is 4th dimension of space which limits humans
  • we live in ‘presentist way’
  • God is opposite, transcendent
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2 types of knowledge (Anselm)

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1) Preceding necessity - physical laws

2) Following necessity- Following free will

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Anselm’s view of God’s immanence

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  • God not separate from humans

- Self imposed limitation on omniscience and omnipotence

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2 Successes of Anselm’s argument

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  • Human free will

- God more immanent than Boethius but with transcendence

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Failure of Anselm’s argument

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  • No significant moment for God (eg. Jesus)
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Swinburne’s criticism of Plato

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  • scholars too influenced by idea of goodness and unchanging
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Swinburne’s everlasting argument (2 points)

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1) God not immutable, to have relationships and to love
2) Simultaneous knowledge, Reduction ad absurdum

  • everlasting, in time
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Swinburne’s view on omniscience and free will

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  • God can now present/ past and what is logically possible
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2 Weaknessss of Swinburne’s argument

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  • Human could achieve God’s knowledge (logically possible)

- God had plan for Jesus + prophecies, Swinburne suggests not so

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Examples of God not being Omnibenevolent

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  • Logical and evidential problem of evil: Mill
  • God Old T
  • Send people to hell
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Bible quote for God’s love and goodness

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  • Genesis 1:31

- “God saw everything that he had made and it was very good”

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Richard Dawkins view of God of love

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  • Not presented as example of moral goodness

- Abraham and Isaac story = God’s curiosity whilst others suffer

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Defence of God- reaction to Abraham/ Isaac

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  • Foreshadowing Jesus’ own sacrifice in same mountain

- Jesus us true better Isaac

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Amalekite Genocide (1 Samuel 15)

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  • God commands kill all
  • God punishes Paul sparing some animals
  • God does not forgive him
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Aquinas’ view on God’s love

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  • We talk about limited love, tiny proportion

- People = good resisting temptation, God can not be tempted

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Moltmann view of love

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  • can’t fully understand God

- Jesus suffered, and God did

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2 Problems with divine self

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  • Calvinist prefer sacrifice free will

- Dawkins says we should stop claiming God exists

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William of Ockham’s view of God’s freedom

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Had freedom before creation but limited it to allow free will

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