Monotheism

Monotheism

Belief in only one God

Omnipotence

Descartes - God can do absolutely anything

God can do the logically possible

Omnipotent Creator

Universe created from God’s own being

Some believe this limits God

Ex nihilo - created from nothing

Process Theology earth already existed (in chaos) God ordered it

Omnipotent Controller of all things

God also sustains the universe

Omniscient - knows past present and future (TD)

Beyond space / time - can’t describe with spatio temporal language

Aquinas - sees / knows things, knowledge not causative

Swinburne - God exists within time, can’t cause human choices, can only predict

Transcendent and unknowable

Beyond space / time

Eternal / limitless

Catholic teaching - God’s aseity (self existence)

Example: “ I am who I am”

No one knows God’s name

Can’t understand what it means to be God