PP111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Frank J. Tipler, Theism, Atheism
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If he cannot create the stone, he is not all powerful. If he can create the stone but cannot lift it, he is not all powerful. Omniscience: omni (all) + science (knowledge); god is all knowing. Omnibenevolent: all loving and all good; a being worthy of admiration and the title of god will be a good, loving, moral, perfect being. Creator: god is the creator of this spatiotemporal universe we find ourselves in. Personhood: since god is omniscient, god has consciousness or awareness; since god is perfect, hence good, hence moral, hence free, god has free will; god is omnibenevolent, so may have emotions. Predominant god of western traditions (judaism, islam, and christianity) is an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent (good, loving) god with personhood that created our universe. Deism: there"s a god, god does not intervene in universe or human life, may be because we reject the personhood of god, or because of some reason to think.
