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God (The nature of God (Personal (God is within the universe, Immanent,…
God
The nature of God
Monothesim
The belief that only one god exists and is worthy of worship
Exodus “who is like thee, O Lord, among the gods?”
Omnipotent creator / controller
All powerful creator
Matthew - with God all things are possible
Nothing challenges God
Personal
God is within the universe
Immanent
Answer prayers
Perform miracles
Give relgious experiences
Doctrine of trintiy
God the son
God the father
God the holy spirit
Jesus as the son of god
Process theology
Relgious language (symbolism)
How does god relate to the world
Immanent / transcendent
Visions
Intellectual
Imaginary
Corporeal
Numinous
Non sensuous / non itellect
Arguments for the existence of god
Cosmological argument
God is the unmoved mover
God is the uncaused cause
The universe is contingent
Therefore God is necessary
God caused the universe
Omnipotent
God the creator
Ontological argument
God is a being than which nothing greater can be conceived
Omnipotent
Omniscient
Omnibenevolent
Supremely perfect
God cannot be percieved not to exist
God possesses necessary existence
Desgin argument
God is the creator/designer
Qua purpose
God of classical theism
Omnipotent
Qua regularity
Omnibenevolent
Omniscient
Hume’s criticisms
Polytheism
God must have a designer
Anthropomorphising God
Infant deity
Evil and suffering
Hick’s vale of soul making
Two stage creation
First stage
God created man as immature
Second stage
God created intelligent, ethical and relgious man
Value of free will
We are made in God’s image
God gave us freewill
Not just goodness
Epistemic distance
God created us with a distance in knowledge
Part of God is hidden to us
Free will defence
God gave us freewill
Not just goodness
God is benevolent in giving us true freewill
Griffin (process thought)
Panentheism
God is outside the universe
God cannot answer prayers
God cannot perform miracles
God cannot give us relgious experiences
God did not create the natural laws
God is limited by these natural laws
God the creator
God created the universe ex materia
God was limited in what he could create
Existing material
God created the world knowing the possibility of evil but also the possibility of goodness
God suffers as well
When moral evil occurs
God is part of the world, affected by it but unable to control it
Rejects the idea of the God of classical theism
Christian beliefs about the after life
Resurrection of jesus
Resurrection (soul / flesh)
Judgement
Christian moral principles
Justification (faith and works)
How does sanctity of life come from god
Stewardship and the bible
How is god revealed
Different understandings of the bible
Conservatism
Catholicism
Apostolic tradition transmits the word of God
Evangelical Protestant
God created the world as stated in the bible
God literally dictated the books of the bible
Neo orthodoxy
The bible is not the literal word of god but it contains the word of god
God reveals himself in Jesus not the bible
When reading the bible we feel the presence of God the forgiven in Jesus
Scripture is a vehicle through which God may be experienced
Liberalism
Social gospel movement
Process theology
Authority of jesus
Jesus is only human
Adoptionism
Jesus adopted God’s authority at his baptism
Arianism
God created Jesus to fulfill a certain role
Jesus is god’s authority
Supports the trinity
God is personal and immanent
Son of god
Son of man