Should The Attributes Of God Be Understood As Subject To The Limits Of Logical Possibility Or Divine Self-Limitation?

Question 1

Descartes’ view was that logic’s created by God, and that God isn’t subject to anything. Therefore, God can make some kind of nonsensical object if he so wishes or can act in a way that’s contrary to his own ?

Answer 1

Nature.

Question 2

Most Christian thinkers reject Descartes’ view on the grounds that logically impossible “?” aren’t “things” at all and can’t be done or created. This doesn’t make God subject to the laws of logic because the reason God can’t do the logically impossible isn’t a failure of God’s part.

Answer 2

Things.

Question 3

Christian scholars, like Aquinas, argued that God can do everything impossible. Some of the miracle stories of the Bible suggest aloe can break the ? of ?

Answer 3

Laws.

Logic.

Question 4

Several different positions held on the issue:

• A ? view, in which God can do anything.
• A ? view (following Thomas Aquinas) in which God can do everything that can be done without contradiction and which is within his nature.
• A view that holds that the idea of an omnipotent God makes no sense and’s a reason for rejecting theistic beliefs.

Answer 4

Cartesian.

Thomist.

Question 5

Many thinkers have struggled with the idea that God’s totally powerful, or ?-?

Answer 5

All-knowing.

Question 6

Some concluded that God intentionally limits his own powers in order to allow humanity to live purposefully and responsibly. God creates a world with “? ?” between himself and humanity so that it isn’t so obvious that people have no choice but to believe in him and worship him. He limits his own omnipotence so that we can choose to resist him, and limits his own ? so that we can take moral responsibility for our actions.

Answer 6

Epistemic distance.

Omniscience.

Question 7

? ? argues that theistic beliefs die a “death of a thousand qualifications” when challenged.

Answer 7

Antony Flew.

Question 8

It could be argued that a God who limits his own ? and ? isn’t omniscient and omnipotent. He may’ve chosen these limitations but they’re limitations and so God’s power and knowledge isn’t ?

Answer 8

Omnipotence.
Omniscience.
Absolute.