Swinburne Flashcards
What does Swinburne say about God ?
Everlasting meaning God runs by the same temporal timeline as we do
Why is Swinburne view appealing ?
Makes God more immanent rather than transcendent , he is within the material world
What’s does God being immanent allow according to Swinburne ?
Allows God to be more knowable and have a closer relationship with God
Why will we have a closer relationship with God according to Swinburne ?
God knows our present struggle and can intervene (divine action)
How does Bothieus and Anselm see God in contrast to Swinburne ?
- God as eternal
- transcendent not immanent
- exists outside of time
What does Swinburne retort against Anslem and Boethius ?
- impossible for God to interact if he experiences everything at once outside time
- rejects God as being simultaneously present as plausible
- an eternal God cannot love his creation like an everlasting God
What does Swinburne see as plausible ?
God being simultaneously present
What is impossible for God to do ?
Experience everything at once outside of time
What can’t an eternal God do according to Swinburne?
Love his creation the way an everlasting God can
How does Swinburne see Gods intentions ?
Are not fixed for eternity
Fundamental to theism, what do they say about God ?
There is a personal God who doesn’t have a material body
What must God do to love us according to Swinburne ?
Exist within time (everlasting)
God doesn’t not have a material body but can do what ?
Hear our prayer and and enable us to have free will
Which God cannot love us
- Immutable
- existing outside of time (eternal)
- fixed intentions
God of theism could have what according to Swinburne ?
Free-will
What does God seem to be according for Swinburne ?
Mutable, changing and reacting to our prayer
Why does God react to our prayer , be mutable and changing ?
Because he CHOSES to , so cannot know the future (divine foreknowledge)
What temporal timeline does God more along according to Swinburne ?
Same temporal timeline as us
How is our past to God according to Swinburne ?
Our past is the same past to God and the future unknown to us in unknown to God
What does God not have ?
Does not have divine foreknowledge
What is the retort 1 of Swinburne ?
Is a changeable God worth worshipping?
How is God according to the retort of Swinburne
Mutable and can change his mind
Retort 1: of Swinburne
If God is mutable and can change his mind what does it make God
Random and arbitrary
What would Boethius and Anslem critise to Swinburne ?
Swinburne everlasting God is not perfect by definition and is not worth worship why worship a falliable God
What is a retort to Swinburne retort
Bridging the Gap - both eternal and everlasting ( William Lane Craig )
What does Craig’s view do to the debate of eternal and everlasting ?
Bridges the eternal and everlasting debate
What does William Lane Craig view say ?
- God was eternal
- he created something ex-nihlo when he created the world
- touched the temporal line and became everlasting
What did God create
Something ex-nihlo and created the world
What did God touch to become everlasting?
Touched the temporal line
What is a retort to William Lane Craig
When did God do this ?
What is the main retort point for when did God do this ?
What time did God decide to created the universe out of nothing (ex Nihlo) if time didn’t exist
What is there no time-frame for God to do according to retort ?
No time frame for God to chose to create something out of nothing if time doesn’t exist
If God chose to create something out of nothing even though no time frame what does it do to his omniscience ?
Self-limited his omniscience in terms of divine foreknowledge if he has chosen to go from outside time to within time
