WorksheetsThe Nature of God
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
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.
