tayyebeh shaddel; Hossein Atrak
Volume 10, Issue 1 , December 2021, , Pages 1-25
Abstract
Absolute Creationism or Modified Platonism is the answer to the challenge that Platonism poses to theism. The main concern of this view is the reconcile between Classical theism and Platonism. Absolute creationism, in fact, claims that necessary truths, like possible beings, depend on God. Thus, in the ...
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Absolute Creationism or Modified Platonism is the answer to the challenge that Platonism poses to theism. The main concern of this view is the reconcile between Classical theism and Platonism. Absolute creationism, in fact, claims that necessary truths, like possible beings, depend on God. Thus, in the ontological inventory we do not faced a being who exists independently of God, and God is the only independent being. Thus the claim of contemporary Platonists, who argue that some abstract objects, such as necessary truths, necessarily exist, is eternal and uncreated, provided that these truths, while necessary and eternal, are created and dependent on God is accepted. William Craig, the contemporary American theist philosopher, believes that this view faces a number of problems, such as conflate of conceptualism, the Vicious Circularity (Bootstrapping objection), incoherence with free will of God, the traditional theory of creation and traded biblical doctrine of creation with emanationism. Although some of Craig's objections are not to the view of absolute Creationism; But absolute Creationism faces serious problems, and it seems that it is possible to defend the Cartesian view of Universal Possibilism. This paper explains and examines Absolute Creationism and Craig's criticisms
tayyebeh shaddel; Mansour Imanpour; Housein Atrak
Abstract
Eternity, meaning "the complete possession all at once of illimitable life" in " classical philosophical theology, is one of the attributes that God describes, but some philosophers of religion have distanced themselves from this interpretation due to the lack of coherence in it. And the "timelessness" ...
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Eternity, meaning "the complete possession all at once of illimitable life" in " classical philosophical theology, is one of the attributes that God describes, but some philosophers of religion have distanced themselves from this interpretation due to the lack of coherence in it. And the "timelessness" is considered irrational (unintelligible). Swinburne also avoids of "timelessness, arguing that if God 'eternity is interpreted as timelessness, it requires corrupt (evil) consequents such as the impossibility of God's relation with time, incompatibility with the witness of scripture, and the coincidence of earlier and later phenomena, incompatibility It comes with prayer and so on. Therefore, to coherence classical theism, Swinburne presents a temporal eternity model. Examining his reasons, it can be said that Swinburne first paid too much attention to the appearance of the scripture (Literalist). Concerning God's relation with time, one can think of ways other than God's temporality; They are present in the sight of God, not their physical existence, so their presence in the presence of God does not lead to different phenomena at the same time.; Therefore, it can be said that the temporal eternity of Swinburne is not a justified model for explaining the eternity of God.
