Nature of God

God as creator

Ex Nihilo

• God created everything in the universe, there was a time when the universe never existed.
• Animals and humans were created by God and he also created angels which are spiritual beings.
• Creation is not co-eternal with God.

Boethius

• God governs all things for good.
• He looked at God's omniscience and saw that it looked like God knows the future, then he is wrong to reward or punish us for our behaviour. 
• How can God know something which is unceertain? Is his knowledge mistaken?
• If God firmly knows everything then it is inevitable.
• God can see things in a different way to humans.
• Humnas exist within time and have pasts, presents and futures and genuine free will.
• God does not have the sam constraints in time, his knowledge is transcendent. 
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