Nature Of God Flashcards
Problems with eternal
If God knows what will happen do we have free will
Outside, can’t control/ help - omnipotent
How can you have a relationship with him - benevolence
What does everlasting mean
Exists through all time
No end or beginning
Positive of eternal
Sees everything, past and future - omniscience
Positive of everlasting
Exists within his creation
Personal
Benevolent
Everlastings problem with perfection
If God is active and responds then he changes
Not immutable
Problems with everlasting
If in time how does he see the future - omniscient
If he exists in time how did he create it - omnipotent
Omniscience and propositional knowledge
Knows everything that is logically possible to know
Omniscience and temporal indexed truths
If timeless can he know temporal indexed truths
They will, they are, they have
Each true at a given point
Does he know the difference
Omniscience and practical knowledge
Can God know how to swim
Knows all that can be know about activities
Problems with omniscience and free will
If God knows what you are going to do. Do you have free will
Solutions will omniscience problem with free will
Just because he know doesn’t team he forced you to do it
Because timeless future knowledge is meaningless to him
Swinburnes solution to omnisciences problem with free will
Doent have foreknowledge because not logically possible
What does eternal mean
Timeless/ outside of time
Transcendence
Aquinas and omnibenevolence
Goodness is equated with his perfection
Augustine and omnibenevolence
God is the moral standard
Source of moral goodness
Filters into his creation
