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AOG: ETERNITY (NEW) Flashcards

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What does Isiah state about God as eternal?

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“who inhabits eternity, whose name is holy”.

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What is Wolterstorff’s view of a timeless God?

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Has to be different from human experience of life in the physical world.

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What does Wolterstorff state for humans?

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“The gnawing of time bites all”.

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What is eternity for Boethius?

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“the whole, simultaneous and perfect possession of unending life.”

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How is time present to God according to Boethius?

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‘Simultaneously’.

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How can God see all according to Boethius?

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In ‘one glance’.

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What is the issue that Augustine attempts to resolve?

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What was God doing before he made the world in a particular point in time?

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What does the Bible indicate about God according to Augustine?

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A timeless God, there was no ‘before’ for God, as time does not work in the same way for God.

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How do we speak of God according to Aquinas?

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Using analogical language.

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What does Aquinas believe about God and humans?

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God is not like humans, we have no words to describe how God experiences ‘time’.

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What quotation does Aquinas state that agrees with Boethius?

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“eternity exists as a simultaneous whole and time does not.”

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What are the four dimensions of Anselm’s approach?

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Height, width, depth and time.

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What is presentism?

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Only focuses on the present moment, past is gone, future has not yet happened, reality is this moment.

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What does Anselm believe about past tense language such as ‘yesterday’?

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Subjective to the person perceiving that moment.

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Where does Anselm believe God can be at the same time?

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Past, present and future.

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What is in God according to Anselm?

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Every space and time.

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What does Anselm mean by saying that every space and time is in God?

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We do still have free will, God can see the free choices we made in the past and what we will do in the future.

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What does Boethius describe God’s position of viewing our free actions as?

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“as though from a lofty peak”.

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What does Wolterstorff believe God is freed from?

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“freed from the bondage of temporarily”.

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What does Swinburne argue is the issue with the timeless view?

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The notion of time being simultaneously present to God is incoherent.

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What is the issue with love and the timeless view?

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Love involves a two way process and ability to respond.

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What is the issue with a timeless God and prayer?

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How can a timeless God respond to our prayers?

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How does Paul Helm defend God’s timeless view?

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“God, considered as timeless, cannot have temporal relations with any of his creation.”

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What does Willis argue about a timeless God in the world?

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God does not literally act in the world.

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How does Aquinas resolve the issue of a timeless God and prayer?

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Prayers should not be for requests.

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What is the issue with Boethius’ depiction of God? What does his view contradict?

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Boethius ends up defining a God that is intrinsically different from the God of Classical Theism (contradicts theism).

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What is the view of God as everlasting?

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God always exists and will always.

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What does Swinburne say about his preference of understanding God?

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“I prefer that understanding of God being eternal as his being everlasting rather than his being timeless.”

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How does Wolterstorff explain an understanding of God’s actions?

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God’s actions in the Bible are responses to human free choices, e.g. 10 plagues.

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What does the timeless view support?

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God’s omniscience, omnipotence, immutable and perfect nature.

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What does the everlasting view support?

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God’s omnibenevolence and personal.

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What is Deuteronomy 33:27?

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“The eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms.”

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What are the three interpretations of Deuteronomy 33:27?

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God is both timeless and everlasting.
God is eternal = timeless.
God is eternal = everlasting - inside of time.

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