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GOD: OMNIPOTENT CREATOR & CONTROLLER OF ALL THINGS - Coggle Diagram
GOD:
OMNIPOTENT CREATOR & CONTROLLER OF ALL THINGS
OMNIPOTENCE
Most christians believe that god is omnipotent
to say that god is the only god mean she must be omnipotents, the creator if everything that exists and the controller of all things
For some to say god is omnipotent means he can do absolutely anything, including the logically impossible
others think this is just logical nonsense
to say god is omnipotent means ge can do anything thats logically possible
this answers the logical problem of evil
GOD AS OMNIPOTENT CREATOR
THERE ARE 3 APPROACHES TO THE BELIEF IN GOD AS CREATOR:
1) some believe the universe comes ex deo (out of gods own being)
most reject this as it implies that god and his creation are the same thing, whereas most christians believe god = transcendent and wholly other
2) most christians think that god created the universe ex nihlo- from nothing
this is the idea expressed on the English translation of genesis 1 "let there be..."
howver the Hebrew translation shows this to be wrong
3) those christians who accept the second translation belief that god created the universe out of already existing chaotic matter which he put into an ordered state
"the earth being without form and void"
this is the view of process theologians
GOD AS THE OMNIPOTENT CONTROLLER OF ALL THINGS
this idea follows naturally from the belief that god is omnipotent creator
if the universe was made from god, and god = omnipotent, then he must control everything
the biblical references to god as king expresses the belief that everything is subject to his control
god sustains the universe meaning that he holds it in existence and preserves it from desturction
god "set the earth on its foundation so that is should never be shaken" [psalm 104]
for some, since god is the only god ad since he is omnipotent, he must be omniscient
he must therefore know absolutely all of the past present and future
this means the future is fixed and unavoidable [theological determinism]
the strongest form of theological determinism argues humans dont have free will and so god has absolute control over peoples actions
alternatively, aquinas believes that goes does not exist in time - he exists timelessly
a timlesless god sees all times and things including the choices people make
but his knowledge is not causative
GOD AS TRANSCENDENT & UNKOWABLE
This refers to the belief many christians hold, that for is beyond and outside the world of space and time
god is not a thing or obect
he is not made ion anything
he does not exist in anything (so cannot exist in space or time as the would limit him)
catholic teaching refers to god's aseity
this is the belief in gods self-existence - its in his nature to exist
nothing is responsible for his existence
" no one comprehends the thoughts of god except the spirit of god [1 Corinthians 2:11]