God in the Bible

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Friday 13th November God in the Bible – God as Creator KQ: What claims are made about the nature of God in the Bible? How are these ideas linked to the theories of Plato & Aristotle? Michaelangelo, The Creation of Adam

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Eternal Omniscient The world comes from God Perfection Immutable Relationship with humans Giver of free will Omniscient Omnipotent Creatio ex-nihilo Attributes / Nature of God

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God as a craftsman vs Creatio ex-nihilo Some theologians interpret the creation story in Genesis showing God as a being that can create something from nothing (creatio ex-nihilo). God is eternal and NECESSARY (God cannot not exist). What are the advantages of this view? Some theologians interpret the creation story in Genesis as showing God as a craftsman who moulds and shapes matter that already exists into the universe and world that God has designed. What are the advantages of this view?

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God in the Bible (Genesis)

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Why is it problematic to see God as an omniscient creator? Free will Evil & suffering Punishment

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Might the Genesis creation story be about something other than creation? If so, what?

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Homework: Read over pages 39 – 56 in your text book. Make notes – summarise each paragraph in a sentence By ready to show me your notes next lesson.

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Friday 20th November Judeo-Christian ideas about God – the Goodness of God in Exodus. KQ: In what sense is God in Exodus presented as perfectly good? Eternal Omnipotent Omnipresent Omniscient Omni-benevolent Transcendent Immanent

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Questions How do Humans know what is ‘good’? (How does this compare to the views of Plato & Aristotle?) What sorts of things does the Judeo-Christian tradition define as good? If humans fail to live up to this idea of what is good, what is God’s response? Can a perfectly good God have meaningful relationship with humans? Why would a relationship situation imply that either party cannot be perfectly good? Does the story of Exodus support the idea of a God that is perfectly good? Why? How does the idea of a perfectly good God compare to the ‘unmoved mover’? How does the idea of a perfectly good God compare to the ‘form of the good’?

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The Euthyphro Dilemma Plato asked: “Do the Gods love what is good because it is good? Or is something good because the gods love it?” What is the paradox that Plato is raising? Why does this create a problem for theists?

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If God created the universe, is God responsible for everything in it? If yes, is everything that happens good? If no, what does this mean for the notion of a powerful God?