Questions tagged [nature-of-god]
The nature of God includes all aspects and characteristics attributed directly to the person of God, possibly including all the omni- aspects (e.g. omniscience), love, hate, persons (e.g. the Trinity) or other attributes.
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Does the Christian God know His own future and is He unable to change that future?
If the Christian God is omniscient, He knows everything, and if He is omnipotent, He is all powerful. But these two statements seem to be contradictory. So if a Christian believes that his/her God ...
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Correlations between "Names of God", "God's attributes", and the 3 common ways of knowing God ("univocal, analogical, equivocal")
When reading philosophical theology literature, I often come across 3 sets of terminologies to how a human being comes to (metaphysically) know God or to understand (conceptually) who God is:
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How would an Open-Theist explain that God's exhaustive foreknowledge would lead to predeterminism?
So in the comments of this answer: How do non-Open-Theists reason a basis for "Free will"?
The question:
"Why must it be that a choice that is known by God in advance is not
your own? [...
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What is the theological difference between anthropomorphism and theanthropism?
I understand from this article
that anthropomorphism is the process of assigning human characteristics to God:
Anthropic means “relating to human beings or their existence.” The word ...
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How do we reconcile God giving His glory to no other (Isa 42:8) with Jesus giving His/the Father's glory to believers (John 17:22)?
For reference, here are the verses in question:
Isaiah 42:8
I am the LORD; that is my name; my glory I give to no other, nor my praise to carved idols.
John 17:22
The glory that you have given me I ...
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Is God an artist? [closed]
If Man creates art in paintings and sculptures, etc, which are depictions of the natural world such as landscapes flora and fauna, life itself and man accepts and qualifies this to be art.
Is the ...
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Why did God punish himself for the sins of man?
As far as I know, the Christian Faith is that Jesus was the son of God and God's incarnation of Himself on earth. Jesus died and suffered on the cross to account for the sins of Man, who are God's ...
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Psalm 88: does it apply to the New Testament's Christian God? [closed]
I was reading Psalm 88:
1 Lord, you are the God who saves me; day and night I cry out to you.
2 May my prayer come before you; turn your ear to my cry.
3 I am overwhelmed with troubles and my life ...
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Apparent contradiction between Isaiah 44 and Psalm 82
From this question, and the comments, I am under the impression that Isaiah 44:6-8
6 Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his redeemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and ...
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Can you prove that God is just for punishing Jesus without taking into account Jesus also being God?
If Jesus was merely a man, then God would seem unjust for punishing the innocent Jesus in place of the guilty due to violating the following:
Man is to be put to death for his own sin and not for the ...
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How do Christians who reject Young Earth Creationism respond to the "God is not a liar" argument?
Young Earth Creationists often argue that denying a young age for the Earth amounts to adopting the naturalist/materialist perspective prevalent in secular science. They suggest that this denial ...
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How is God's encounter with Jacob in Genesis 32 addressed within the framework of monergism vs. synergism?
Genesis 32:27-28
27 So He said to him, “What is your name?” He said, “Jacob.” 28 And He said, “Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel; for you have struggled with God and with men, and ...
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According to Trinitarians, how can God suffer if He is outside of time? [closed]
Mainstream Christians believe that God truly suffered during Jesus’s life on earth. But if God perceives reality in one eternal moment, doesn’t that mean that His whole existence is suffering? Doesn’...
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Is it absolutely required for people to believe in the deity of Jesus to be called Christians? [closed]
The more I study scripture the more I realise that all those proof texts for the deity of Christ can also be interpreted in another way that points more in the direction that Jesus is an Elohim but ...
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How are God, angels, men and devils related, according to the Scriptures?
I see a lot of pseudo-Scriptural mysticism on the subject of the identities of angels and devils, men and God. I say mysticism not to dismiss attempted explanations categorically, but because the ...
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