attributes of God

Question 1

God is everlasting

Answer 1

Swinburne. has to respond to prayers x Aquinas: God doesn’t respond like that it’s just to make you feel closer
- has to be able to change to be loving and personal. xAquinas: God is perfect and can’t be changed

Question 2

God is eternal present

Answer 2

Boethius. God is constantly with us and there is no order of events. simple and conditioned necessity
x Anthony Kenny - wiping out temporal consistency is incoherent and God wouldn’t know the sequence of events so not omnipotent

Question 3

four-dimensionlist approach

Answer 3

god is eternal, this means all of time is within him. there is eternal simultaneity and temporal simultaneity. he is always learning (doesn’t know what you’re going to do) because of the eternal simultaneity. you have free will. this maintains god being the best possible being.