Creator God
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- Created on: 25-06-17 16:14
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- God - Personal and Creator
- Omnipotence - Creation shows God as all powerful. Only a being of ultimate power would have the ability to create the entire universe.
- "In the Beginning, God created the heavens and the earth" Genesis 1:3
- key words
- Ex-Nihilo
- Literally means 'out of nothing'. belief that God made the universe from nothing.
- "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface" - shows there was nothing on earth before God made anything.
- "In the beginning" meaning before everything else there was God
- Literally means 'out of nothing'. belief that God made the universe from nothing.
- Immutability
- means always the same, unable to change.
- God cannot change and is always the same. God made day and night therefore God created time. So God is beyond time.
- However some theologians disagree saying God and his actions are different in Old and New Testament.
- God cannot change and is always the same. God made day and night therefore God created time. So God is beyond time.
- means always the same, unable to change.
- Ex-Nihilo
- Personal relationships
- Normal relations - 'I-it' Meaningful relations - 'I-Thou' Relation with God - 'The eternal thou'
- Martin Buber
- God never stops wanting this relationship even if people choose not to.
- Normal relations - 'I-it' Meaningful relations - 'I-Thou' Relation with God - 'The eternal thou'
- Emanation - coming from a source
- religious terms- means life emanates from God and thus life has something of God in it. "God created mankind in his own image".
- People are made to be like God = Humans also have potential to be like God "Irenaeus Theodicy we are children of God".
- religious terms- means life emanates from God and thus life has something of God in it. "God created mankind in his own image".
- Goodness of creation
- "And God saw it was all good" repeated line - shows creation was good means perfect. also leads to idea - humans spoiled it. links it with Augustine Theodicy - humans unbalance through original sin.
- Implications from these changes
- Christians aims to have a personal relationship with God - could be done through worship and prayer.
- Eden was seen as being like a garden when Mary first saw Jesus, she thought he was a gardener. For many Jesus' Resurrection brings people back to Eden and restores perfection in creation.
- people can only reach eternity and grace of God if they accept Jesus' sacrifice - afterlife is only available to those who seek a personal relationship with a creator of God.
- Eden was seen as being like a garden when Mary first saw Jesus, she thought he was a gardener. For many Jesus' Resurrection brings people back to Eden and restores perfection in creation.
- Augustine argue that this relationship was broken at the fall people can never truly regain that relationship - only way to accept grace of God through salvation of Jesus's sacrifice.
- Christians aims to have a personal relationship with God - could be done through worship and prayer.
- Omnipotence - Creation shows God as all powerful. Only a being of ultimate power would have the ability to create the entire universe.
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