GOD HAVE
IS OMNISCIENT, HUMANS CAN'T
FREE WILL .
BOETHIUS' QUESTION : Consolation of
Philosophy (542) if God already knows what we
-
will choose , we are free to choose otherwise ,
not
because if we could choose otherwise God would be ,
wrong
.
for an explanation that can
we are
looking
ALL of God's
preserve -
It is
typical
characteristics .
Anselm's definition of God : MWNECBC .
not only al that God is omni benevolent potent + ,
knowing ,
it is also necessary .
1 We don't have free will -:. we can
preserve God's omniscience .
< COUNTER : free will is
necessary in
order to God's omnibenevolence .
preserve
We would either be like robots or God would
even be tyrannical in nature . in irrelevant
< COUNTER : free will is
necessary in order
to God's justic e... irrelevant
preserve
.
2 Boethius : God is eternal -
God exists outside the
linear time that humans are in . His perspective is not bound
by time; he sees all past , present + future as 'one simultaneous
, "now" !'
present .' He calls this 'the divine so
Whilst God knows (what for 1) these
is) our ,
future actions ,
actions have still taken place voluntarily ; God's foreknowledge
does not impose necessity on things .
> SUPPORT :
Aquinas -
God is outside time ,
as if atop a Hill. .
He can view all travelers
the road at
at various points along once .
< COUNTER : doesn't allow for God to
also immanent-difficult for
be
Christians to accept as they would have
to deny experience of the divinee.
any
Also could be argued that immanance
allows God to be benevolent therefore , -
Anselm , it is that
according to necessary
God is immanent .
3 Anselm's 4 dimensionalist approach -
De Concordia
'
(1108) 'the eternal is better than the
temporal God existsat once
.
in all times and all
times are at once' in him . God is
present in the
moment of our choice but didn't cause it
.
↳ this preserves God's omniscience and immanence ,
alongside our free will .
CONCLUSION : God's omniscience does not restrict human
omniscience . This is best understood through Anselm's
four-dimensionalist approach· No such thing as the
'future' for God .
IS OMNISCIENT, HUMANS CAN'T
FREE WILL .
BOETHIUS' QUESTION : Consolation of
Philosophy (542) if God already knows what we
-
will choose , we are free to choose otherwise ,
not
because if we could choose otherwise God would be ,
wrong
.
for an explanation that can
we are
looking
ALL of God's
preserve -
It is
typical
characteristics .
Anselm's definition of God : MWNECBC .
not only al that God is omni benevolent potent + ,
knowing ,
it is also necessary .
1 We don't have free will -:. we can
preserve God's omniscience .
< COUNTER : free will is
necessary in
order to God's omnibenevolence .
preserve
We would either be like robots or God would
even be tyrannical in nature . in irrelevant
< COUNTER : free will is
necessary in order
to God's justic e... irrelevant
preserve
.
2 Boethius : God is eternal -
God exists outside the
linear time that humans are in . His perspective is not bound
by time; he sees all past , present + future as 'one simultaneous
, "now" !'
present .' He calls this 'the divine so
Whilst God knows (what for 1) these
is) our ,
future actions ,
actions have still taken place voluntarily ; God's foreknowledge
does not impose necessity on things .
> SUPPORT :
Aquinas -
God is outside time ,
as if atop a Hill. .
He can view all travelers
the road at
at various points along once .
< COUNTER : doesn't allow for God to
also immanent-difficult for
be
Christians to accept as they would have
to deny experience of the divinee.
any
Also could be argued that immanance
allows God to be benevolent therefore , -
Anselm , it is that
according to necessary
God is immanent .
3 Anselm's 4 dimensionalist approach -
De Concordia
'
(1108) 'the eternal is better than the
temporal God existsat once
.
in all times and all
times are at once' in him . God is
present in the
moment of our choice but didn't cause it
.
↳ this preserves God's omniscience and immanence ,
alongside our free will .
CONCLUSION : God's omniscience does not restrict human
omniscience . This is best understood through Anselm's
four-dimensionalist approach· No such thing as the
'future' for God .
