Nature Of God

Question 1

Simple necessity

Answer 1

The necessity of nature acting according to natural and physical laws

Question 2

Conditional necessity

Answer 2

An action is observed only because it has been freely chosen

Question 3

Providence

Answer 3

God’s knowledge, not of the future but how God observes the world and our free choices

Question 4

Anselm’s four-dimensionalism

Answer 4

All times and places are equally real and present to God

Question 5

Following necessity

Answer 5

The moment of free choice is known in God’s eternal present: God is with us because that moment is in God

Question 6

Proceeding necessity

Answer 6

There is not free agent

Question 7

Everlasting

Answer 7

A view of divine eternity. God has no beginning or end, moves though time and is in time

Question 8

Theism

Answer 8

Belief in monotheistic God, who is personal, immanent and active in the world

Question 9

Self-limitation

Answer 9

God chooses to limits his attributes in order to allow human free will