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Attributes Of God Flashcards

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Descartes on omnipotence

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God is supreme perfection

Can make 2+2=5

Doesn’t conform to rules of logic

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Criticisms of Descartes on omnipotence

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Omnipotence= powerful enough to do evil
Omnibenevolence= incapable of evil as perfectly loving
= contradiction

Presents God as unpredictable and able to become evil/ turn against us and change his mind

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Anselm on omnipotence

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God= supremely omnipotent

Nothing great can be conceived

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Aquinas on omnipotence

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Omnipotence= In charge of the whole world

Can’t do impossible things

Eg) can’t swim as he has no body

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Swinburne on Omnipotence

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‘The Coherence of Thesim’

God can do everyTHING

Self contradictory definitions are not THINGS

Eg) a rock to heavy to lift = contradiction therefore not an actual thing

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Peter Vardy on Omnipotence

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Puzzle of Evil

God cannot move anything like pieces on a chessboard

Created the universe to LIMIT his power

The universe is perfectly suited for humans

God is still Omnipotent as he CHOOSES to limit his power on earth

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Macquarie on Omnipotence

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We have a language misunderstanding

Our word ‘power’ is limited and doesn’t describe God

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Hartshorne on omnipotence

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Total power = total influence and effect

Due to our free will, we can resist God, meaning he is not totally powerful

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JL Mackie on omnipotence

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Logically impossible actions don’t exist

God can only do the logically possible

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Schlieiermacher on omniscience and free will

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“We estimate the intimacy between 2 persons by the foreknowledge one has of the actions of the other, without supposing the others freedom is endangered. So even the divine foreknowledge cannot endanger freedom”

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Criticism of Schleiermacher on omniscience and free will

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God is infallible, has true knowledge

Humans make relatable guesses

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Boethuis on omniscience and free will

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God is not restricted by time, all events occur simultaneously for him

Therefore he doesn’t not know what will happen in the future as he has no future

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Moltmann on omniscience and free will

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Bible shows god interacts

Eg) Jesus

His influence gradually limits free will

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Jeremiah 1 quote on omniscience and free will

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“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you”

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Augustine on timelessness

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There is no ‘before’ for God, his time is not linear

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Isiah Quote on eternity

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“Who inhabits eternity”

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Richard Creel on timelessness

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God knows his will for all possibilities

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Anselm on Omniscience and free will

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Development of Boethuis

Defys presentism

Time= the 4th dimension, measures space, like height

Every time and space is in God

Therefore god doesn’t foresee things of humanity = humans have free will

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Aquinas on timelessness

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We have to use analogy to describe god as he is greater than us

Timelessness = greater

God is unchanging

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Swinburne on god as everlasting

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Love = Changeable, it grows

A timeless God would not be able to love as he would be immutable

God has to exist in time to be loving

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CS Lewis on timelessness

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Prayer doesn’t change God, it changes me

Therefore god doesn’t actually intervene, 100% timeless

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Swinburne on the bible on god as everlasting

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God interacts in the bible and his intentions change

Therefore he is changing and not immutable

He must exist in time

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Pike on timelessness

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Mountain and steam analogy

One eternal timeless act of god we experience at different points in time

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Wolterstroff on timelessness

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“God is freed from the bondage of temporality”

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Moltmann on omnibenevolence

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Christianity shows god does not sit outside time and space , he gets involved

Shared suffering of Jesus’ death

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Maurice Wells on god as timeless

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God doesn’t literally act, he’s separate from our time, can’t intervene

If he did, it would be unjust to reveal himself and help some and not others

Eg) helping one person heal from cancer and not others

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John Stuart Mill on omnibenevolence

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God cannot be loving when he created a world where animals kill animals to simply survive

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Aquinas on omnibenevolence

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All things are part of gods master plan which is ultimately omnibenevolent

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Kant on omnibenevolence

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Gods omnibenevolence is redeemed in heaven

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Descartes on omnibenevolence

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God can do the logically impossible

Can be immutable and loving

His love is different to ours

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Boethuis on omnibenevolence

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God is timeless so cannot interact in time

Can’t prevent pain and answer prayer

Not loving

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Richard Dawkins

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If the idea of God is intelligible to us then it is reasonable to not believe in him

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