Nature of God (Attribute of Eternal): OCR Religious Studies (Part One)

In this video I go through the Attribute of Eternal as part of the topic of Nature of God following the OCR spec. If you have any questions please feel free to leave a comment :)

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[QinlanWu]

Hi, thank you so much for this video. I am just curious like Anselm is saying God can see present, past and future (literally) does it mean our life is predestinated already? So there is no free will?

[wobbledog]

I'm not sure if this is me misunderstanding eternal timeless or if it's a good evaluation point, but if God is outside of time then where would this be? another realm? and how would his affect his ability to act within time from outside? or how did he create the world which is inside of time and then exit it or at what point did he exit it?
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[jz]

Do the 3 videos you made on attributes of God cover the whole specification for the 3 topics, so do they provide an adequate basis for the topic?

[alexfacchino]

Does Anselm 4 dim approach mean that God can be personal and interact with creation? thank you

[alexanderthomas]

going back to the issues of eternal timeless, wouldn't the points of Helm being going against eternal timeless and not defending it. Because it showing that God should not and cannot be out of time otherwise he cannot interact and create relationships with us?

[chloew]

Would it be necessary to specify eternal in terms of timeless or eternal in terms of everlasting, or could you just say timeless/everlasting? Just as in the textbook it was eternal meaning timeless and then everlasting as something separate. Thanks :)

[alexanderthomas]

if as said God sees everything in one glance (timeless eternal, boethius), what happens after that glace? If Time is eternal, wouldnt that mean that one glance would then last forever, meaning there would have to be a concept of time for God that is seperate from us?

[tjlthif]

Hi Thankyou for this video it was very useful just one question on the spec it talks about whether the attributes should be understood as subject to the limits of logical
possibility or of divine self-limitation.
In terms of essay planning what would you use if this question came up?

[roryandrews]

Do you share the PowerPoints by any chance?

[mwalsh]

I reckon Swinburne is the strongest as it preserves the personal and loving nature of God which I'd consider to be two of his most important qualities and fits better with the Bible like you said with the 10 plagues. Also, I would say that the criticism it reduces His omniscience is too weak as I like the claim that God doesn't need to know the future as it hasn't happened or isn't a thing yet. It's similar to the idea of omnipotence by Swinburne that God can do everything but there are things such as logical impossibilities that aren't a real thing so God doesn't have to be able to do it.

Do you think this would make a good thesis for an essay about God's eternal attribute?

[nathanhubball]

Does Wolterstorff contradict himself then by saying that God is "freed from the bondage of temporality" yet doesn't know the future?

[JesseTapnack]

would you not argue that because Anselm advocates for "non-temporality" rather than Boethius' "a temporality", according to Anselm's philosophy God can interact with time? Thereby, getting around the rejection of eternal philosophy whereby, God is seen as incompatible with the God of the Bible.