Showing posts with label A theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A theory. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Universals


If universals exist in God's mind---as conceptual realism maintains--then relations would exist in God's mind prior to Him instancing them. Would not the same be said of concrete things then? If so, then the force of Bill Craig's "real relations argument" against an Atemporal conception of Divine Eternity looses sway. 

Just a thought!      


Monday, February 11, 2013

Divine Timelessness and Craig


William Lane Craig’s claim: God is timeless prior to creation, and temporal subsequent to creation

(1) If God does not know all counterfactuals prior to creation, then He is not omniscient.
(2) God cannot know tensed counterfactuals prior to creation (Since God is timeless prior to creation according to Craig).
(3) Therefore, God is not omniscient.
(4) However, God is omniscient, and therefore knows all counterfactuals prior to creation.
(5) So, God knows tensed counterfactuals prior to creation. (This conclusion demonstrates God can be timeless and know tensed facts given Craig’s own presuppositions).