Challenges to God's existence
Challenges to God's simplicity
- Created by: Megan Rose McHugh
- Created on: 28-04-13 18:42
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- CHALLENGES TO GOD'S SIMPLICITY
- God has no freedom is simplicity is true...
- misunderstanding of god's nature- Aquinas: god wills whatever he does from eternity e.g god is the creator, if god is simple he eternally wills creation
- Simple god is transcendent and thus unknowable..
- god can be known through revelation
- god can be known through use of analogy of proportion and attribution and via negativa
- In the bible god is not described as simple...
- references to god are symbolic not literal
- some passages do suggest that god is unchanging 'for I am the lord, I change not' Malachi 3:6
- How can a simple god love his people?
- love concerns what god wills for human beings; not a reference to empathy
- Plantinga: divine simplicity does not do justice to the personal nature of the Christian God
- some argue that god changes
- god does not change- he is the source of change
- God has no freedom is simplicity is true...
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