God & Time
God and Time through the view of Boethius, Anselm, Plantinga, and Swinburne
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- God & Time
- Boethius
- God is eternal, he is outside of time
- Divine Foreknowledge
- Explains the difference between knowing and causing - the necessities
- conditioned necessity - something happens through choice i.e choosing to cross the road
- Explains the difference between knowing and causing - the necessities
- Atemporality - outside of time
- Past, present and future are all the same to God - God has complete possession of all at once
- Divine Foreknowledge
- Criticisms
- Seems impossible that two things are happening at once - how can one be born and die at the same time?
- God is omnipotent and omniscience so he can do things we don't understand
- Kotarbinksi argued that time is the duration of objects and nothing else. Objects don't exist outside of time therefore God only existed when objects did
- Seems impossible that two things are happening at once - how can one be born and die at the same time?
- God is eternal, he is outside of time
- Anselm
- God is in a different dimension - The fourth dimensionalist approach
- God is Timeless
- God can see us in the past, present, and future - he is not restricted in the same way as humans
- Anslem says argues that god knows the future, what will happen, and that it is unchangeable to him
- eternity is non-temporal
- Anslem says argues that god knows the future, what will happen, and that it is unchangeable to him
- Free will, according to Anselm, is having the choice to do good and bad. Because God is good, he does not have a choice to do evil
- God can see us in the past, present, and future - he is not restricted in the same way as humans
- God is Timeless
- God is timeless
- Boethius
- God is eternal, he is outside of time
- Divine Foreknowledge
- Explains the difference between knowing and causing - the necessities
- conditioned necessity - something happens through choice i.e choosing to cross the road
- Explains the difference between knowing and causing - the necessities
- Atemporality - outside of time
- Past, present and future are all the same to God - God has complete possession of all at once
- Divine Foreknowledge
- Criticisms
- Seems impossible that two things are happening at once - how can one be born and die at the same time?
- God is omnipotent and omniscience so he can do things we don't understand
- Kotarbinksi argued that time is the duration of objects and nothing else. Objects don't exist outside of time therefore God only existed when objects did
- Seems impossible that two things are happening at once - how can one be born and die at the same time?
- God is eternal, he is outside of time
- Boethius
- God is in a different dimension - The fourth dimensionalist approach
- Swinburne
- God is in time
- Plantinga
- God & Time
- Anselm
- God is in a different dimension - The fourth dimensionalist approach
- God is Timeless
- God can see us in the past, present, and future - he is not restricted in the same way as humans
- Anslem says argues that god knows the future, what will happen, and that it is unchangeable to him
- eternity is non-temporal
- Anslem says argues that god knows the future, what will happen, and that it is unchangeable to him
- Free will, according to Anselm, is having the choice to do good and bad. Because God is good, he does not have a choice to do evil
- God can see us in the past, present, and future - he is not restricted in the same way as humans
- God is Timeless
- God is timeless
- God is in a different dimension - The fourth dimensionalist approach
- Swinburne
- God is in time
- Plantinga
- A world with free will is better then one without
- Plantinga
- Only way to make sense of the scripture
- Maintains free will
- A world with free will is better then one without
- Maintains free will
- God is in time
- Anselm
- God & Time
- Plantinga
- Only way to make sense of the scripture
- Maintains free will
- Maintains free will
- God is in time
- Boethius
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