GOD: Concept and Nature

Question 1

What is God described as?

Hint: 3 omni-

Answer 1

Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnibenevolent

Question 2

What does it mean if God is omnipotent?

Answer 2

God is all powerful

Question 3

What does it mean if God is omniscient?

Answer 3

God knows all true propositions

Question 4

What is the core of the argument of God’s omniscience and human’s free will?

Answer 4

If God is omniscient, then God knows what i’ll do in the future. If so, I’m not able to do anything different. If so, I’m not free.

Question 5

What kind of argument is the argument of God’s omniscience and human’s free will?

Answer 5

•Deductive
•A priori

Question 6

What is the argument of God’s omniscience and human’s free will? (laid out)

Answer 6

P1: If God is omniscient then God knows all true propositions
P2: If God knows all true propositions then God knows what i’ll do
P3: If God knows what i’ll do then i am unable to do anything else
P4: If i am unable to do anything else then i’m not free
C: Therefore if God is omniscient then I am not free

Question 7

What is the core of the argument of the Euthyphro Dilemma?

Answer 7

There are only two ways of understanding God’s relationship to moral goodness, and both have unacceptable implications

Question 8

What kind of argument is the Euthyphro Dilemma?

Answer 8

•?
•A priori

Question 9

What is the argument of the Euthyphro Dilemma? (laid out)

Answer 9

P1: There are only two ways of understanding an omnibenevolent God’s relationship to morality
A- Actions are morally right independently of God’s commands and that’s why God commands them
B- Actions are morally right because God commands them to be and they wouldn’t be otherwise
P2: Option A is unacceptable because it means that God isn’t omnipotent as God didn’t create morality and can’t control or change it
P3: Option B is unacceptable because
• God can’t give justification for particular actions being morally right or wrong
• Actions we think of as morally wrong could have been morally right
C1: Therefore there is no acceptable way to understand an omnibenevolent God’s relationship to moral goodness
C2: Therefore God can’t be omnibenevolent
MC: Therefore an omnibenevolent being can’t exist

Question 10

What is the core of the Paradox of the Stone?

Answer 10

Wether God can or cannot make an unmovable stone, God cannot be omnipotent

Question 11

What is the Paradox of the Stone? (laid out)

Answer 11

P1: Either God can make a stone that God cannot move or God cannot do this
P2: If God can make such a stone then there is a task that God cannot do (God can’t move the stone)
P3: If God cannot make such a stone then there is a task that God cannot do (God can’t make the stone)
C1: Therefore either way there will always be a task that God cannot do
C2: Therefore there cannot be a being that can perform all tasks
MC: Therefore an omnipotent being is impossible and the concept of omnipotence is incoherent