God has no composition or complexity and is unlike any creature; He is a simple Being and cannot be referenced like a non-simple creature of being like an animal or a human. The question that arises is how God should be referenced. To answer that question and also to respond to the Islamic fundamentalists who had personified God, a negative theology also called Apophatic theology was developed by Maimonides. He stated that the positive characteristics of God would not be accurate so the one way to talk about Him would be by assigning negative characteristics to him. Aquinas, on the other hand, gives a small description of divine omnipotence. He states that it is difficult to explain omnipotence; however, the concept cannot involve things that are logically sinful and impossible. Aquinas also states that God is omnipotent only in regards to His active power and not in respect to passive power; so to say that God is impassable or immovable is not abhorrent to His omnipotence. Aquinas also goes forward to show that sinning is to not perform a perfect action so when someone sins he does not perform a perfect action, which is abhorrent to omnipotence. Hence, because of His omnipotence, God cannot sin. Furthermore, the omnipotence of God is shown in a merciful and sparring manner as He has the supreme power to forgive sin without any conditions.
Hasker, on the contrary, vouches for Open Theism which states that God takes risks with His creatures and lacks knowledge. His position consists of three parts: section first includes Nature of Divine Knowledge; Section two focuses on Divine Providence and its link to Divine...
With this, Hasker concluded that process theology developed the concept of God's knowledge. The Bible, he states, is prehistoric in the approach regarding the relationship between human freedom and divine sovereignty. Hasker also adds that some passages in the Bible can be linked to support that God is determining everything while others with equal stress and strength and significance of a human's freedom. It is clear that Hasker's views regarding the governance of God is different from what was commonly held by the others. Hasker states that if risks are taken by God then governing and creating a world is a risky business for Him.
Question 2
The views of a conceptual relativist are rather different from a religious relativist. The former holds a correspondence to differences in the world view and states that they are mutually not compatible, however adequate on individual bases; while the latter states that truth itself is plural and relative. Religious relativism reiterates the significant role cognition plays in religious life. The salvation path is an element of the salvific process. Thus, one's religious perception that functions as a guide for actions and attitudes cannot be separated from that path. In addition, if experiences are conceptualised, the individual would literally have no experiences of the divine in the absence of world-view. For instance, it allows an individual to experience the world through the provision of God or as a setting that…
