boethius and Anselm

Question 1

Schleiermacher

Answer 1

God knows what someone is going to do in the same way a close friend knows what you are going to do.

Question 2

Aquinas

Answer 2

God is perfect, so he must be impassable (unaffected by anything outside of himself) as if he changed he would change to something that’s not perfect.

Question 3

Kant

Answer 3

Free will is essential.

Question 4

William Lane Craig

Answer 4

God was eternal until the point of creation, which is where he became within time.

Question 5

Luis de Molina

Answer 5

God doesn’t know what you are going to do, he knows all the options of what you could do though.

Question 6

Hartshorne

Answer 6

God is within time responding to our prayers.

Question 7

Nicholas Wolterstoff

Answer 7

Human sins arise within the context of time and for God to be free of this burden he must be outside time.

Question 8

God acting within time in the Bible

Answer 8

God made the world in six days.

Question 9

God knowing the future in the Bible.

Answer 9

Jesus knew that Judas was going to betray him.

Question 10

Swinburne

Answer 10

God must be acting within time responding to people’s prayers. An eternal God would be pretty lifeless.

Question 11

Boethius’ analogy of the walker.

Answer 11

A person is on a hillside watching someone walking on a sunny day. It is necessary the man is chosen to walk, and necessary that the sun is shining but the person imposes no necessity on these things.

Question 12

Anselm on what God is

Answer 12

‘that than which nothing greater can be conceived.’

Question 13

Strenghts of God being eternal

Answer 13

Seems greater than a God who can be changed by time. For God to be impassable (unchangeable by anything outside of himself) he must be timeless.

Question 14

Christian paragraph 1

Answer 14

God being eternal
1. Persuasive as seems better than a timeless God.
2. However, we can’t have a relationship with a timeless God.

Question 15

Christian paragraph 2

Answer 15

1. Unpersuasive as God acts in time in the Bible.
2. However, Jesus knew that Judas was going to betray him before he did.
3. However, God could just know in the same way a close friend knows.

Question 16

Boethius free will paragraph

Answer 16

1. If God sees everything all at once he limits our future actions so we can’t have free will.
2. Furthermore, he is responsible for the problem of evil questioning his omnipotence.
3. However, Boethius’ viewer on a hillside analogy.
4. However, we can’t compare God to a human viewer.