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What did Aquinas believe was the nature of God?
Aquinas said God signifies...
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Aquinas said God signifies...
Being/existing
Holiness
Eternity
Jesus
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What did Aquinas believe was the nature of God?
To love his followers
To answer prayers
To exist
To judge people
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Who said that knowledge is not physical?
Descartes
Boethius
Aquinas
Hume
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Who said 'God wills whatever he does from eternity'?
Davies
Augustine
Aquinas
Boethius
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J.L. Mackie said that the idea of logically impossible actions was...
A nonsensical one
Put forward by a person who had not fully examined the Bible
A suggestion that fails state any lies
A form of words which fails to describe any state of affairs
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Can God change past history?
No because he is eternal
No because it would involve an illogical contradiction
No because he is everlasting
Yes because he is omnipotent
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What influenced the idea of God being eternal?
Plato and his unchanging world of forms
Aristotle's early writings
The Bible
Your mum
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Boethius defined eternity as...
Forever
All of time
Whole, simultaneous and perfect possession of unending life
Completely owning all of one's life for all time
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What did Augustine believe about God being simple?
He is immaterial
He is eternal
He is unchangeable - cannot gain or lose characteristics
He is dumb
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Why did Woltertorff say that God needs his actions to involve time passing?
To justify some of his actions
As creator of the universe he also needs to experience time
Because that reflects what we see in the Bible
Because he thought God was similar to humans
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What does everlasting mean?
God exists outside of time and has a beginning/end
God exists outside of time but doesn't have a beginning/end
God exists in time and has a beginning/end
God exists in time and doesn't have a beginning/end
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Can God sin?
No because it would involve lack of power & God's omnipotent
No because he is God
No because sin involves change and God is immutable
No because it would stop him from being perfect
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Who criticised Boethius' idea that all events are present to God simultaneously?
Swinburne
Sorabji
Luis of Molina
Kenny
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Who said God's omnipotence is better understood as a statement concerning the power of God?
Anselm
Aquinas
Geach
Kenny
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In Psalm 139:1-4 God is described as:
Knowing people old and young
Knowing people through and through
Knowing people up an down
Knowing people in and out
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Since Aquinas believed that God is eternal, how did this affect his view of His omnipotence?
His omnipotence is infinite as God is not limited
Since He's eternal/not physical he can only do logical stuff
He can't change past events as this is illogical
He thought God could do anything at all
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Which of these fits in with the idea of God being eternal?
Omniscience
Limited omniscience
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Who said 'A being is omnipotent if it has every power which it's logically possible to possess'
Descartes
Kenny
Augustine
Aquinas
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Who believed that God doesn't see life as a series of events?
Boethius
Swinburne
Aquinas
Wolterstorff
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If the simple God is transcendent, how can he be known?
Through the use of analogy of proportion/attribution
Through use of the via negativa
Through revelation
He can't be known
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How can a simple God love his people?
He loves us in a non-human way
He shows his love through what he wills for people
He empathises with people
He can't
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Who said 'God is not a thing like a human being but God is a thing in the same sense as you...'
Davies
Aquinas
Wolterstoff
Augustine
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Nicholas Wolterstorff said that the eternal God appealed to people, why?
It opens up the possibility of immortality to humans
God will always be around to listen and respond to people
Different from humans' experience of life in physical world
Proves how powerful he is
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Kenny said that God's omnipotence concerns what it is logically possible for God to do, and...
What God wants to do
What God has the power to do
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What is limited omniscience?
God has unlimited knowledge of past, present and future
God knows no more than humans
His knowledge changes over time as he acquires new knowledge
Knowledge is limited to what it's logically possible to know
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Swinburne said that an everlasting view of God...
Is a non-Christian view
Sucks
Is inferior to an eternal view of God
Fits in better with the Bible
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What did Boethius believe about free will?
Only religious believers have free will
People have to earn free will
All humans have free will
No free will as God takes in history in a simple glance
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Who believed that God can change the fundamental laws of physics?
Dawkins
Descartes
Mackie
Geach
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Which of these philosophers believed that God is everlasting?
Wolterstorff
Anselm
Aquinas
Swinburne
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Why did Anselm believe that God can't sin?
It is logically impossible
Implies lack of control over his actions
