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glossary Flashcards

1
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God of classical theism

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classical or traditional view of God found in Christianity

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omnipotence

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total power

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omniscience

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total knowledge

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omnibenevolence

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all-loving and God is good

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eternal

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  • existing forever, never ceasing to exist
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timeless

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  • God is outside time
  • God created time and thus is beyond it
  • concept that doesn’t apply to God
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everlasting

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  • God is within time

- bound by time the same way we are but he is immortal

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divine attributes/ nature of God

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omnipotence
omnibenevolence
omniscience
eternal

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logically coherent

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beliefs and ideas that make sense together

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paradox

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contradictory statement or proposition

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free will

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ability to determine the course of our own lives

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moral responsibility

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taking responsibility for your actions

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atemporal

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timeless God

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sempiternal

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everlasting

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‘eternal present’

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God doesn’t move through time like we do

outside time

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‘4 dimensional view of time’

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past and future exist in same way present does we just can’t access them in same way as present

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foreknowledge

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awareness of something that happens before it exists

18
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immutable

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unchanging overtime or unable to change

19
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predestination / predetermination

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future is set

20
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providence

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the protective care of God or of the nature as a spiritual power

21
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justice

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just behaviour and treatment

22
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simple

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unchanging

23
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Swinburne’s parent analogy

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punishment born of love

24
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presentism

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  • the idea that all truly exists is the present and the past is gone and future has no happened yet
  • one reality and it is the one that exits now
25
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immanent

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God is within space and time

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immutable

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God cannot change

27
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impassible

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God cannot feel anything

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