Nature or Attributes of God- Omnipotence

Question 1

Views on God and Power

Answer 1

Logically Impossible- Descartes
Logically Possible- Swinburne, Aquinas
Self-Limiting- Hartshorne
No limits- Aquinas (Primary, Secondary causers)

Question 2

Unnecessary to resolve conflicts between omni’s

Answer 2

Kirkegaard- celebrated paradoxes and puzzles: “credo quia absurdum”= Fideism

Question 3

Necessary to resolve conflicts between omni’s

Answer 3

Evil- Mackies’s Triad

Free will

Question 4

Advantages to Logically Impossible

Answer 4

More powerful
Everything depends upon will
God as Creator should be able to control

Question 5

Disadvantages to Logically Impossible

Answer 5

“Square circle” is meaningless- no limitation if he cannot do nonsense
Incomprehensible
Cannot talk or think- beyond any rational reach

Question 6

God can sin, but won’t

Answer 6

Can do logically possible+ praiseworthy as doesn’t

-> Can be tempted- weak

Question 7

God can’t sin

Answer 7

Completely reliable and has no weaknesses

• > Why praise when he cannot help but do good?
• > Strange that can do everything logically possible except

Question 8

Self-Limiting

Answer 8

Allows for free will

• > Everything too independent
• > Lesser God

Question 9

No Limits

Answer 9

Just as powerful

• > God as primary cause= free will?
• > Schleiermacher= where does evil come from?