Attritbutes of God
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- Created on: 27-11-13 11:39
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- Attritbutes of God
- Omnipotence
- Support
- Needed for human salvation
- Couldn't carry out his plans for the universe without it
- Ontological argument- Descartes and Anselm
- God cannot be lacking any quality and therefore must have complete omnipotence
- Descartes conclused that God must therefore be able to do anything even the logically impossible
- Aquinas
- "he can do everything that is absolutely possible"
- "everything that does no imply a contradiction is amoung those possibilities in respect of which God is called omnipotent"
- God cannot do anything which involves a contradiction
- "everything that does no imply a contradiction is amoung those possibilities in respect of which God is called omnipotent"
- "he can do everything that is absolutely possible"
- Needed for human salvation
- Disagree
- Problem of evil
- God could stop evil if he wanted to
- Allows us to maintain free will
- Limited omnipotence
- Peter Vardy
- God isn't in control of the whole of history and cannot change events
- Wrong to say that evything which happens is the result of God
- God cerated the world so that his omnipotence would be necessarily limited
- This is self impossed so you can still call him omnipotent because nothing other than himself is limiting his power
- John Macquarrie
- limitations are self imposed
- Like Aquinas he says that we cannot fully understand Gods omnipotence becuase we only have small fallible minds
- Peter Vardy
- Problem of evil
- Support
- Omni- benevolence
- Heaven
- Leads to people leading more moral lives
- Encourages selfishness?
- Boethius- Predestination makes reward unfair
- Miracles
- Sent Jesus to save humans
- Answers prays
- Created the world
- Challenges
- Kills innocent people
- Sodom
- Miracles make God partisan and arbitary
- Allows suffering in the world
- Problems of evil raised if God is all loving
- Inconsistent triad
- Problems of evil raised if God is all loving
- Kills innocent people
- Why?
- Only a good God is worthy of worship
- Aquinas- "the perfections of everything exist in God"
- Not good in the same way as humans- can't anthropomorphize God
- Questions raised
- Hell
- Symbolic? used to inspire us to follow the teachings of Jesus
- Swinburne
- God is like a parent who punishes
- Free will must include the freedom to damn ourselves
- John Hick
- A good God is incompatible with the idea of hell
- Universalist- all will be saved
- Heaven
- Omniscience
- If God has no body how can he know what things taste of feel like?
- Middle knowledge
- God knows all the possibilities of what could happen in various situations
- Future?
- "Your eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of the came to be true" Psalm 139:16
- Know the choices we make but not actually make them for us
- Compatible with the timeless view of God
- Does this affect our freewill?
- Calvinists- freewill isn't possible it is only apparent and doesn't actually exist
- Boethius
- God sees everything in a simultanious present
- If God is eternal then he cannot be subject to time
- God sees everything in a simultanious present
- Swinburne
- God has knowledge of everything which is logically possible to have knowledge of
- Can't have knowledge of the future as it hasn't happened yet
- God has knowledge of everything which is logically possible to have knowledge of
- Omnipotence
- Bibile examples
- Omnipotence
- Support
- Needed for human salvation
- Couldn't carry out his plans for the universe without it
- Ontological argument- Descartes and Anselm
- God cannot be lacking any quality and therefore must have complete omnipotence
- Descartes conclused that God must therefore be able to do anything even the logically impossible
- Aquinas
- "he can do everything that is absolutely possible"
- "everything that does no imply a contradiction is amoung those possibilities in respect of which God is called omnipotent"
- God cannot do anything which involves a contradiction
- "everything that does no imply a contradiction is amoung those possibilities in respect of which God is called omnipotent"
- "he can do everything that is absolutely possible"
- Needed for human salvation
- Disagree
- Problem of evil
- God could stop evil if he wanted to
- Allows us to maintain free will
- Limited omnipotence
- Peter Vardy
- God isn't in control of the whole of history and cannot change events
- Wrong to say that evything which happens is the result of God
- God cerated the world so that his omnipotence would be necessarily limited
- This is self impossed so you can still call him omnipotent because nothing other than himself is limiting his power
- John Macquarrie
- limitations are self imposed
- Like Aquinas he says that we cannot fully understand Gods omnipotence becuase we only have small fallible minds
- Peter Vardy
- Problem of evil
- Support
- "with God all things are possible" Matthew 19:23-26
- "for nothing is impossible with God" Luke 1:36-37
- Sarah and Hannah
- Both past child bearing age but God graced them with a child
- Omnipotence
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