God as Creator

Created by: Tom Kydd-Coutts
Created on: 17-04-14 14:01

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God as Creator
- Creatio ex nihilo
  - Creates out of nothing
  - Both a creator and a craftsman out of pre-existent matter since:
    - "God said , Let…and so it was" Genesis
    - "Can you beat a vault of the skies?" Job 37:18
- Qualities of God
  - Omnipresent
    - Linked with all knowing and all powerful. A being with the ability to be everywhere at once
  - Omnipotent
    - God's power is revealed to the biblical reader
      - "All things were were made by Him and without Him was not anything made" John 1:3
    - The Inconsistent Triad
      - To be all powerful means to have a ability prevent evil therefore not all-loving
      - To be all-loving means to not allow evil therefore not all-powerful
        Response: God can do anything that doesn't contradict himself e.g cause himself to not exist
    - Descartes: God can do anything
      - Reason we can't comprehend this is the limitation of our minds
  - Omnibenevolent
    - The Inconsistent Triad
      - To be all powerful means to have a ability prevent evil therefore not all-loving
      - To be all-loving means to not allow evil therefore not all-powerful
        Response: God can do anything that doesn't contradict himself e.g cause himself to not exist
  - Omniscient
    - The limitless knowledge of God in the Bible
      - "…and he sees everything under the Heavens" Job 28:14
- Key ideas
  - God brought the universe into existence
  - He is reponsibe for the entire universe itself and all within it
  - He is responsible for it existing at every moment
- God as Craftsman
  - "Where were you when I laid Earth's foundation?" Job 38:4
  - "The work of God's fingers"Psalm 8:3
- God's Involvement
  - Very much involved unlike the Ancient Greek Demiurge and Prime Mover
- God's in Control
  - Isaiah: speaks of God sitting above the Earth and having the power to reduce princes to nothing.

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