The Nature of God

What does "omniscience" mean?

• All-loving

• All-knowing

• All-powerful

Who said God knows everything "directly"?

• Aquinas

• Anselm

• Plato

In this course, what does "omnibenevolent" mean?

• All-loving

• Supremely good

• The fullest expression of giving.

Which of these are two ways of understanding "supreme goodness"?

• Self-sufficient

• Metaphysically perfect

• Morally perfect

What does "everlasting" mean?

• Possessing ET-simultaneity.

• Having no end or beginning atemporally.

• Having no end or beginning temporally.

What does "eternal" mean?

• Possessing ET-simultaneity.

• Having no end or beginning atemporally.

• Having no end or beginning temporally.

Who proposed T- and E-simultaneity?

• Stump and Kretzmann

• Plato

• Boethius

Which of God's attributes does the Euthyphro dilemma directly challenge?

• omnipotence and omniscience

• omnipotence and omnibenevolence

• omniscience and omnibenevolence

How does the concept of ET-simultaneity address the suggestion that humans don't have free will if an omniscient God exists?

• God knows everything all at once, not "before" it happens- every moment is "now" to God.

• Omniscience means what's possible to know, and God's everlasting, so God not seeing the future doesn't change God's omniscience.

• Just because God knows what we'll do, it doesn't follow that we must do it.

Why is it claimed that "God is good" is not an analytic truth?

• "Good" depends upon "God".

• "God" and "good" are different concepts.

• God's will isn't known to us.