eternal or everlasting?
- Created by: Megan Rose McHugh
- Created on: 02-05-13 19:37
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- ETERNAL OR EVERLASTING?
- In Christianity God is seen as eternal: 'who inhibits eternity, whose name is holy' Isaiah 25:15
- refers to god being outside of time, times does not pass for God, has no beginning or end
- predicate is influenced by Plato: approach of an unchanging true reality (world of forms)
- if god is eternal- must be omniscient: otherwise he would be subject to change (by gaining new knowledge) suggesting imperfection (conflicting with god's nature)
- BOETHIUS
- consolation of philosophy
- book written whilst in prison: did not lose faith in god but his fall from a high societal position caused him to discuss the natture of god
- god : the whole simultaneous perfect possession of unending life
- god is limitless, exists eternally, does not have past/present/ future
- does not experience life as a series of events one following the other
- impassible- does not exist in time. infinity of time is simultaneously present to god
- has all knowledge otherwise he would be susceptible to change
- ISSUE: if being eternal requires being omniscient how can humans have FREE WILL?
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