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
        • Atemporality - outside of time
          • Past, present and future are all the same to God - God has complete possession of all at once
      • 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
    • 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
          • 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 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
            • Atemporality - outside of time
              • Past, present and future are all the same to God - God has complete possession of all at once
          • 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
    • 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
                  • 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 is timeless
              • Swinburne
                • God is in time
                  • Plantinga
                    • A world with free will is better then one without
                • Only way to make sense of the scripture
                  • Maintains free will
                    • A world with free will is better then one without
        • Only way to make sense of the scripture
          • Maintains free will

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