Attributes of God - Omnibenevolence I
- Created by: Alasdair
- Created on: 14-05-17 12:55
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- Omnibenevolence of God
- What does it mean to call God omnibenevolent?
- God is all loving
- All good - perfect
- Wants best for us
- Incapable of doing evil
- Aquinas says: 'The perfection of everything exists in God; he lacks no excellence of any sort." What would he say the 'omnibenevolence of God means?
- 100% perfection - 100% that it is to be God
- Pure actuality
- Moral God
- How does the Bible portray the omnibenevolence of God?
- Giving human beings freewill
- Incarnation
- Offering human-beings salvation and eternal life.
- What does it mean if God is:
- Eternal
- He loves us but is unable to act
- God has perfection in his nature
- Everlasting
- Has ability to intervene and produce loving acts.
- Moral God
- Eternal
- What would Ramsey and Tillich say?
- It's symbolic - look beyond the window
- Has a life of its own
- It grows and changes
- Unlocks levels of reality that would otherwise remain hidden
- Ramsey 'model' - qualify
- One way of understanding God - limiting
- What does it mean to call God omnibenevolent?
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