I. Characteristics of a Supreme Being
a. Omnibenevolence
b. Omnipotence
c. Omniscience
II. Omnibenevolence:
a. What "God is Good" means
1. Good by Definition
2. Good as a matter of fact.
b. Critique of these claims.
c. The "Problem of Evil"
III. Omnipotence:
a. Logical Possibility/Impossibility
IV. Omniscience:
a. Knowledge of Falsehoods
b. Knowledge of all Truths
1. Knowledge
of the Future
2. Compatibility
with Free Will
i. Knowledge does not imply force.
ii. God is a timeless being.
iii. Characteristics of God's "Decisions"
V. Attempts to Prove that God Exists:
a. Experience
1. General
Agreement
2. Characteristics
of Experience of God
3. Criticisms
of these Claims
b. God as the Cause of Experience:
1. Not
the same as Experience of the Cause
c. Revelation and Miracles:
1. Revelation
is revelation to one person only
2. Miracles,
definition
i. Coincidence Miracles
ii. Violation Miracles
a. Are there any true violations of Natural Law?
VI. Philosophical Attempts to Prove that God Exists.
a. The Teleological Argument
b. The Cosmological Argument
c. The Ontological Argument
d. Augustine's Argument
e. Aquinas' Five Ways