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- - - - Creatio ex nihilo
      - Creatio ex materia
      - Creatio ex deo
    - - Many references in scripture (eg. Job 26:7-14)
      - Different interpretations to what 'all powerful' means
        
        Aquinas
        
        God can do anything 'logically possible'
        
        Cannot do things that violate his nature
        
        Descartes
        
        Literally
        
        God could do anything at all
    - - Evidence in scripture (eg. Psalms 95:1-5)
      - Different interpretations of what this means
        
        Griffin's process theology
        
        Limitations on God's power
        
        Maurice Wiles
        
        Rejected the idea that God could control all things
        
        Rejects literal accounts of miracles in the Bible
      - Problem of evil?
  - - - The Great Commission: 'baptise them in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit'
      - Paul states that the Holy Spirit is the basis of spirituality in the individual and in Christ
      - Prophet Montanus claimed the Holy Spirit is active in dreams, visions, and prophecies
      - Functions
        
        Irenaeus: working through the prophets
        
        Bucer: we are unspiritual until we are inspired by the Holy Spirit
        
        For most Christians, the Bible is inspired by means of the Holy Spirit
        
        Apostolic Succession
  - - - John 1:1-2
      - John 8:58 'I am the one'
      - John 10:30
  - - - Jesus and Gd are the same
- - - - God can persuade physical matter into an organised form
      - God can bring about a less chaotic universe over time, but he cannot do it immediately
        
        But ongoing chaos still exists, because this process is not yet done
  - - - He is not impassible
- - - - God as Father and King, including Christian feminist perspectives
        
        Daphne Hampson
        
        'Fundamental to the Abrahamic religions is the will to subvert women and establish man as the norm'
        
        Masculine anthropomorphism in biblical portrayals of God
        
        'Him'
        
        'Shepard'
        
        'Father'
        
        'Son'
        
        'Master'
        
        'Lord'
        
        'King'
        
        McGrath's counterargument
        
        Galatians 3:28
        
        'There is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ'
        
        No analogy is meant literally
        
        None of the biblical analogies literally mean that God is a male human
        
        Accuses Christianity of sublimating maleness, and treating the feminine as devient
        
        Fetishising maleness
        
        Sexism in the Bible
        
        Numbers 30:3-15
        
        Leviticus 21
        
        1 Timothy 2:8-15
      - Do suggest an anthropomorphic God
        
        Father
        
        Soverign
        
        He does whatever He pleases
        
        Jesus
      - Do not suggest an anthropomorphic God
        
        Necessary
        
        Spiritual
    - - A Personal God
        
        He is a 'personality', not a human being
      - God transcends the human distinction between the sexes
    - - 'Welcomes siners'
      - Omnibenevolent
      - Agape
        
        Sacrificial love that voluntarily suffers inconvenience, discomfort, and even death for the benefit of another without expecting anything in return
        
        Christ's example
      - God is the source of love
      - Matthew
      - God provides life, sustains, and sacrificed his son for humanity's eternal life
    - - 'Your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you' (1 Corinthians 6:19)
      - 'Your father knows what you need before you ask him'
      - 'I will fear no evil, for you are with me'
  - - - It is not a modern academic response to the challenge of understanding the world
  - - - No analogy is meant literally
      - None of the biblical analogies literally mean that God is a male human