The Divine attributes

The Divine attributes

1. Omnipotence

   • 1) Stone paradox
     • response 1) Presupposes possibility of something logically impossible "power to create stone omnipotent being cant lift"
       • Not possible power - God does not lack anything
     • Response 2) redefine omnipotence as power to do anything that is logically possible
     • 3) God is incorporeal

2. Omniscience

   • Does he know future? Would mean lack of freewill. Or knows all possible outcomes - but does not then doesn't know definite outcome

3. Omnibenevolence

   • Everyone would define good subjectively - what does it mean to define God as good? What seems omnibenevolent to one may not seem to another

4. Transcendence

5. Immanence

6. Eternal

   • Timelessness is unintelligible concept - to exist at all must exist at some point
   • Process theology by Hartshorne
     • God is personal - be fully personal must be able to love - implies passive and active capacity
       • God has attributes; must be capable of change and therefore cannot be timeless

7. Immutable

8. Perfect