Attributes of God - Omnibenevolence of God III
- Created by: Alasdair
- Created on: 15-05-17 14:42
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- Omnibenevolence of God
- Traditionally
- New Testament
- Laws on expression of God's goodness
- 'Be holy as I am holy'
- Laws on expression of God's goodness
- Freewill
- Miracles
- O. T.
- God 'saving' His people 'salvation History' - Exodus
- N. T.
- Jesus's divinity + forgiveness + compassion
- O. T.
- Incarnation
- Eternal life for humans
- Justice
- 'Let justice roll on like a river'
- Creation itself
- New Testament
- What issues are raised by biblical ideas of God being the source of what is morally good according to Dawkins?
- Contradictions
- New Testament contains morality of a 'poisonous variety'
- God is 'poisonous' in that he can command bad things
- God influences individuals such as Abraham and Moses to do evil things, e.g. sacrificing his son
- Misogyny
- A master allows his daughter to be sexually abused by another man but not his male guest
- Refers to Crucifixion of 'sadistic' with unnecessary torture and questions why God could not just forgive humanity.
- Dawkins does not acknowledge it as symbolic
- Euthyphro dilemma
- Contradictions
- How may a non-propositionalist (NOT LITERALLY WORD OF GOD) approach to scripture help with this? Internal contradictions (contradictory ideas), Plum?
- It would suggest that writers of scriptures could use scriptures to propagate their own views
- Might solve Old Testament issues but not New Testament ones such as Jesus being tortured for symbolic original sin.
- Stories having words put in your mouth
- Stories about misogyny and racism - product of time
- What philosophical issues are raised by biblical ideas of God's omnibenevolence?
- Certain stories contradict the notion of him being all loving
- Problem of evil
- Plum - God cannot be both omnipotent and omnibenevolent
- Part of God is justice
- Existence of Hell, evil and suffering - internal contradictions
- How have Xn philosophers attempted to overcome these?
- It's open to interpretation
- Symbolism
- New Testament
- Hick and Irenaeus
- Suffering is for greater good (theodices - revisit)
- God is eternal
- Outside time and space
- Wiles
- God doesn't do stuff, he is about loving and sustaining
- God's love is not the same as ours - we shouldn't take it literally
- Aquinas would say it's about what God is, not what he does so he doesn't need to do things
- How may a view of God as Eternal solve some of these problems - what criticisms would Kenny, Swinburne and WLC have with these solutions?
- God being Eternal means he sees everything in one timeless moment therefore is not able to interfere - not interventionist
- WLC, Kenny and Swinburne disagree - contradiction in terms
- WLC and Swinburne - how do you understand key aspects of the Bible such as Incarnation
- Traditionally
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