God Flashcards
What is monotheism?
- the belief there’s only one god
What does omnipotent mean? I
- all powerful
What does transcendent mean?
- god is above and beyond space-time
Quote for monotheism?
“Before me no God was formed, not shall there be any after me”
In the Old Testament what is at the heart of the covenant?
- good moral behaviour
What is salvation?
- being saved from sin
What’s at the heart of salvation?
- moral obedience
How can Christians know how to be saved into the kingdom of god?
- the ethical teaching of Jesus
What do some think about Gods omnipotence?
- he can do absolutely anything
- including the logically impossible
What do others think about Gods omnipotence?
- he can do anything ‘logically possible’
Whats a problem of Gods omnipotence?
- evil and suffering
What does Hick and Plantinga say about the second view of Gods omnipotence?
- agree with it
- it’s not logically possible for God to allow humans to be truly free and to get rid of evil at the same time
What do some Christians believe about the creation of the universe?
- created ex Deo
What is Ex Deo?
- out of Gods own being
What do most Christians believe about the creation of the universe?
- created Ex Nihilo
What is ex nihilo?
- creation from nothing
Quote for creatio ex nihilo?
“Let there be light and there was light”
What’s a view that matter already existed?
- Gods creative acts are to bring about order in pre existing chaos
- hence his first act of creating light
If gods the all powerful creator of everything what’s the issue here?
- he must’ve created evil
What’s the view of God being the controller of everything?
- god sustains the universe
- he hold it in existence and preserves it from destruction
How does god preserve the universe?
- from falling back into the chaos
- human morality by providing a code by which Christians follow e.g the 10 commandments
What does omniscient mean?
- all knowing
What would it mean for God to be all knowing?
- the future is fixed and unavoidable
What does the theological determinism mean?
- humans do not have free will
- god has absolute control over a persons actions
What does Gods transcendent mean?
- Gods true nature is unknowable
