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Philo. Platon, Gott > The Nature Of God > Flashcards

The Nature Of God Flashcards

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Give a quote to support the idea of God’s eternity

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In the beginning God created - Genesis 1

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Give a quote to support the idea of God’s omniscience

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You have gone against my will and eaten from the tree - Genesis 3

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Give a quote to support the idea of God’s omnipotence

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God made man in his own image - Genesis 2

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Give a quote to support the idea of God’s omnibenevolence

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For God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son

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What is meant by referring to God as timeless?

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He can see all of time at once

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What is meant by referring to God as everlasting?

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He moves through time

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Give an advantage of being timeless

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Demonstrates omniscience as God knows what is best for us

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Give a disadvantage of being timeless

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Why does God not prevent evil as he can foresee it?

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Give an advantage of being everlasting

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God can be seen as omnipresent and sharing our experiences

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Give a disadvantage of being everlasting

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If God is always present why does he allow people to die unnaturally?

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Give the dates of Boethius

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475-525 AD

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When did Boethius write ‘The consolation of philosophy?’

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Whilst in prison awaiting execution

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What is meant by providence?

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God’s care and protection

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In ‘The consolation of philosophy’ what do both Boethius and lady philosophy represent?

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~ Boethius represents the naive questioner

~ Lady philosophy represents the thoughts of B

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What does Boethius say to lady philosophy about foreknowledge and free will?

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~ There seems to be a hopeless conflict between divine foreknowledge of all things and freedom of the human will
~ There can be no freedom in human decisions and actions
~ What God knows is necessary and certain

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How does lady philosophy justify foreknowledge and free will as compatible?

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~ The nature of the knower
~ Humans can know things that lesser animals cannot
~ In the same way God knows things that we cannot

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What does Boethius say on God’s knowledge?

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It encompasses the infinite sweep of past and future, and regards all things in its simple comprehension as if they were now taking place

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How does Anthony Kenny criticise Boethius?

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“The whole concept of a timeless eternity, the whole of which is simultaneous with every part of time, seems to be radically incoherent”

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How could a Boethian respond to Kenny?

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He fails to distinguish between the temporal and non temporal + the human and divine perspective

20
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How does Nelson Pike criticise Boethius?

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As the language of traditional doctrines show God doing things in the past, He must be within time

21
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How could a Boethian respond to Pike?

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Some languages such as Chinese do not have tenses, so Pike’s point is subjective

22
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Give a quote from Nicholas Wolterstorff on God as everlasting

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“Regrets over the pervasive pattern of what transpires within time have led whole societies to place the divine outside of time”

23
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Give a quote from Aquinas on the difference between time and eternity

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“The primary intrinsic difference of time from eternity is that eternity exists as a simultaneous whole and time does not”

24
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What example does Peter Geach (1916-) give to illustrate the problem between divine will and foreknowledge?

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Playing chess with a grandmaster - you are free to make a move but ultimately will always lose

25
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What are the implications of the paradox of the stone?

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~If God can create a stone too heavy for him to lift then He is not omnipotent
~ If God cannot create a stone too heavy for him to lift then He is not omnipotent because His powers of creation are limited

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How does Aquinas defend God from the burden of sin?

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He says that to sin is ‘to fall short of something’ and God is not capable of this because he is a supremely perfect being

27
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How does Swinburne defend God’s omnipotence?

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He said that omnipotence is being able to do anything logically possible, and that God is unable to do that which he knows is wrong

28
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Complete this quote from Descartes on God’s omnipotence - “I do not think that we should ever…”

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“…. Say of anything that it cannot be brought about by God”

29
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Give the biblical quote from Mark 10:27 to show God’s omnipotence

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“With God all things are possible”

30
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Complete this quote from Socrates - “An unexamined life is….

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…… Not worth living”

31
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Complete this quote from Hartshorne on God’s impassibility - “One can do nothing for God, and our worst sins harm God…..

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…… As little as the finest acts of sainthood”

32
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Complete this quote from Vardy - “God is limited by….

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….. The universe he has chosen to create”

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Impassible

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Incapable of suffering pain or harm, unfeeling

34
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Paradox

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A situation where two contradictory statements both appear true

35
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Middle knowledge

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The idea that God knows all the possibilities of what would happen in different scenarios

36
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Complete this quote from Aquinas on God as timeless - “He who goes along the road does not see those who come after him…..

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….. Whereas he who sees the whole road from a height sees at once all those travelling on it”

37
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Process theology

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The idea that God is changing with the universe so our knowledge of God progresses as we learn more about him

38
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Why can process theology be seen as problematic to God’s omniscience?

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It claims that God does not know everything that will transpire

39
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What does D.Z.Phillips (1934-2006) say about God’s eternity?

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It is more of a quality than an existence through time as the notion of God’s eternity attempts to convey the idea that we cannot comprehend God

40
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Give the 5 main qualities of God

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Eternal, omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent and omnipresent

Philo. Platon, Gott (12 decks)

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