Explore themes of Attributes of God:

God's Nature?

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If God is the creator of human beings and art reflects human sentience, then can examining the arts discern reflections of God? Can one infer from various aspects of art...

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Can Art Reveal God’s Traits?

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Season 20

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If God is the Creator of human beings and art is a feature of human sentience, then can examining the arts help discern characteristics of God? Can one infer from various...

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Can the Arts Reveal God's Traits?

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How to make sense of the Christian claim that there is only one God but three persons? Why is it that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit—just three persons—compose...

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Mystery of the Trinity? (Part 2)

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To what kind of entity does the word “God” refer? What is this God that all worship or dismiss? What, supposedly, is God’s nature? What are God’s traits?

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What is God’s Own Being?

Episode 06

Season 17

26:48

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What if God were a ‘person’? A person has sense, knowledge, will, intent, feelings. A person can be compassionate, sympathetic, empathetic. If God were a person,...

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Can the Divine be a Person?

Episode 05

Season 13

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What would it mean for God to have a ‘nature’? A nature is a deep essence that defines a particular way of being. Would God’s nature characterize, limit or...

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Does God Have a Nature?

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God's Essence?

Whether God exists may depend on whether God is necessary. ‘Necessary’, in the philosophical sense, means ‘impossible not to exist’. Even if God...

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Is God Necessary?

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Hugh McCann, philosopher of action and advocate of God’s absolute sovereignty, died in 2016. A few years earlier, we discussed God’s radical, maximal nature.

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God’s Sovereignty: A Tribute to Hugh McCann

Episode 12

Season 18

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What does it mean for God to be ‘good’? God can never be bad, do evil, sin? Sure, but what about positive things that God can do? What are those things that best...

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How Good is God?

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What does it mean for God to be perfect? Perfectly knowledgeable? Perfectly powerful? Perfectly good? Perfectly free? Did God create the ‘perfect world’?...

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Is God Perfect?

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If God created the cosmos, what created God? It would not make sense for anything to have created God, because then that ‘anything’, not God, would be God. So, if...

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Is God Self-Existent?

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The claim that God is simple is a profound vision of the essence of God. What does it mean for God to be simple? The question addresses God’s composition. God has...

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Is God Simple?

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55:44

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God's Powers?

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Western religions claim that God is all-knowing. Then the trouble starts. What does it mean to know everything? Is God’s knowledge of the future truth? Are...

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Does God Know Everything?

Episode 10

Season 15

26:47

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Does God have real choices? Or is God bound tightly by God’s own nature? Can God do absolutely everything? Can God be ‘brave’? Can God ‘improve’? For God to be God,...

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How Can God Not be Free?

Episode 13

Season 14

26:47

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If God is God, it seems impossible to limit God’s freedom. But can God create a round square? Make 1+1=3? Do evil? Sin? Be brave. There seem to be many things that God...

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Is God Totally Free?

Episode 13

Season 13

26:46

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To assess the limits of God’s freedom is to probe the essence of what it means for a Supreme Being to exist. Assuming God created the cosmos, it would seem that nothing...

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Is God's Freedom Limited?

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47:19

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What could limit God’s freedom? If God is God, one might think the answer is nothing—it is impossible to limit God’s freedom. But can God create a round square?...

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What Limits God's Freedom?

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What is the difference between God knowing an infinite amount of things and God knowing literally everything? ‘Everything’ is vastly larger than infinity, if that...

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Does God Know Everything?

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1:04:29

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God and Time?

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What is the relationship between God and time? Does God exist in time, being everlasting, without beginning or end? Or does God exist outside of time, on a wholly different...

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How Does God Relate to Time? (Part 2)

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If God exists outside of time—not in time, but timeless and eternal—what would that mean about God’s nature? God would never ‘lose’ the past or...

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Is God Outside of Time?

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1:14:53

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Is God temporal, existing in time as we humans do? Or is God outside of time, eternal, and living a radically different kind of existence? Does God experience everything...

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Is God Temporal or Timeless?

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God and time are two huge mysteries. Relating them probes the nature of God, and perhaps even the existence of God. God, in order to be Creator, must create everything other...

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Did God Create Time?

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50:32

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What is the relationship between God and time? Does God exist in time, being everlasting, without beginning or end? Or does God exist outside of time, on a wholly different...

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How Does God Relate to Time? (Part 1)

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53:36

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Could God be eternal? For God to be eternal, God would exist outside of time, would not experience time’s flow. God would have no past, present or future. As Boethius...

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What is God's Eternity?

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1:05:34

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Attributes of God

Explore themes of Attributes of God:

God's Nature?

Can Art Reveal God’s Traits?

Can the Arts Reveal God's Traits?

Mystery of the Trinity? (Part 2)

What is God’s Own Being?

Can the Divine be a Person?

Does God Have a Nature?

God's Essence?

Is God Necessary?

God’s Sovereignty: A Tribute to Hugh McCann

How Good is God?

Is God Perfect?

Is God Self-Existent?

Is God Simple?

God's Powers?

Does God Know Everything?

How Can God Not be Free?

Is God Totally Free?

Is God's Freedom Limited?

What Limits God's Freedom?

Does God Know Everything?

God and Time?

How Does God Relate to Time? (Part 2)

Is God Outside of Time?

Is God Temporal or Timeless?

Did God Create Time?

How Does God Relate to Time? (Part 1)

What is God's Eternity?