Have Boethius, Anselm Or Swinburne Successfully Resolved Problems Connected With God's Attributes And Human Free Will? Flashcards
Boethius and Anselm argue that God can see us at all times in our lives, freely making choices. The fact that God can see us making those choices, and knows what our future choices and their consequences will be, doesn’t restrict our freedom to act ? God’s knowledge of our choices isn’t ? as there’s no “in advance” for God. Therefore, our future choices aren’t fixed before they’ve happened.
Freely.
Foreknowledge.
God still knows our choices with certainty, and while this mightn’t be “?” for God, it’s still “beforehand” for us, as we exist in time.
Beforehand.
The timeless, ?-? God described by Boethius and Anselm doesn’t seem able to make free choices himself. God’s choices are already made, for all time. Everything God thinks and does is restricted by his timelessness and perfect nature.
Four-dimensionalist.
? view of a God who exists in time might seem to resolve problems of human free will as the future isn’t fixed in this model.
Swinburne’s.
A God who exists in time may still be ? in the sense of knowing everything that can be known.
Omniscient.
It could be the case we have no free will, whether God exists or not, outside or within time. We could be so determined by genetics and by external factors that none of our actions are free even if we feel ourselves to be acting ?
Freely.
