Omniscience - Divine Knowledge and Free Will
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- Created on: 22-03-21 14:04
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- Omniscience, Time and Free Will
- Boethius
- Believed that God is not constrained by time
- God exists in all moments - Past, Present and Future occur simultaneously
- For Example: God can see someone being born, getting married and dying at the same time
- God exists in all moments - Past, Present and Future occur simultaneously
- God does not know everything
- He doesn't know what our actions will be and can therefore judge us fairly
- Roman aristocrat, philosopher and commentator on Aristotle in the Middle Ages
- Believed that God is not constrained by time
- Anselm
- Anselm developed Boethius' concept of God being able to see all of time
- Stated that time for God is not the same for us - God is timeless
- Proposed a 4 dimensionalist view where the past and future exist the same way the present does
- Time is the 4th dimension
- God lives in this dimension and not outside of time
- We live in the dimensions of height, length and width
- Time is the 4th dimension
- Because God occupies all points in space and time he can judge our actions fairly
- Anselm developed Boethius' concept of God being able to see all of time
- Swinburne
- Richard Swinburne disagrees with Boethius and Anselm
- This view of God as timeless contradicts the God says in the Bible - a God that interacts with people
- God is not unchangeable as he changes his mind
- There are biblical examples to support this
- Richard Swinburne disagrees with Boethius and Anselm
- Plantinga
- Alvin Plantinga believes that we are significantly free when we can perform a morally significant action
- It is only a genuinely moral action when done freely
- A world with no evil and free will is logically absurd
- If God eliminated the possibility of moral evil there would be no possibility of the greater good
- Alvin Plantinga believes that we are significantly free when we can perform a morally significant action
- Boethius
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