3.1.2 God’s Relationship to Time

• Match the perspective on God's relationship to time with its key concepts:

  Eternalism ↔️ Timelessness ||| Omniscience ||| Unchanging nature

  Temporalism ↔️ Divine becoming ||| Interaction with the world ||| Progressive revelation
• Match the perspective on God's relationship to time with its key concepts:

  Eternalism ↔️ Timelessness ||| Omniscience ||| Unchanging nature

  Temporalism ↔️ Divine becoming ||| Interaction with the world ||| Progressive revelation
• What does divine immutability assert about God?

  God is unchanging
• What is the key implication of God's foreknowledge?

  Free will vs determinism
• Which philosophers are associated with the eternalism perspective on God's relationship to time?

  Augustine and Aquinas
• Process theology argues that God evolves alongside the world
• How does divine immutability relate to God's omniscience and omnipotence?

  Ensures their consistency
• Foreknowledge is God's ability to know all future events in advance
• Eternalism suggests God's knowledge is complete and unchanging
• The core attributes of God are identical across all major religions.

  False
• Eternalism suggests God perceives all events sequentially.

  False
• Temporalism suggests that God experiences time sequentially like humans.


  True
• Divine providence implies that God ensures order and purpose in the universe.


  True
• Omnipresence means God is present everywhere simultaneously.


  True
• What is the primary attribute of God affirmed by divine immutability?

  Unchanging nature
• Divine immutability asserts that God's nature, character, and plan are unchanging.


  True
• What is the definition of divine providence?

  God's governance and care
• Match the perspective on God's relationship to time with its description:

  Eternalism ↔️ God exists outside of time and perceives all events simultaneously

  Temporalism ↔️ God exists within time and experiences events sequentially
• Temporalism suggests God's omniscience is limited by time.


  True
• Temporalism suggests God's actions can influence human agency.


  True
• God's attribute of being all-knowing is referred to as omniscience
• Temporalism is associated with philosophers such as Whitehead
• What is the key concept in the eternalism perspective on God's relationship to time?

  Timelessness
• Match the theologian with their view on divine immutability:

  Augustine ↔️ Supports immutability

  Whitehead ↔️ Argues for divine change
• Monotheism refers to the belief in a single, all-powerful God
• Temporalism allows for God to interact with the world in a progressive way.

  True
• Thinkers like Augustine and Aquinas support divine immutability
• Match the theological perspective with its immutability definition:

  Traditional ↔️ Unchanging in being, attributes, and will

  Process Theology ↔️ God evolves alongside the world while maintaining core values
• How do divine providence and foreknowledge relate to divine immutability?

  Consistency in God's plans
• What is the theological implication of eternalism regarding God's interaction with the world?

  Challenges active interaction
• How does eternalism align with the static, block universe conception of reality?

  Fits with timeless perception
• The belief in a single, all-powerful God is known as monotheism
• Eternalism is associated with philosophers such as Augustine
• Temporalism allows for God to evolve and interact with the world in a progressive way.


  True
• The traditional view of divine immutability ensures God's perfection and predictability
• Eternalism suggests that God's knowledge is complete and unchanging
• What does Process Theology emphasize about God's nature?

  Relational and adaptable
• The concept of divine immutability suggests God's decisions are predetermined
• Divine providence ensures order and purpose in the universe.


  True
• Temporalism maintains God's ability to respond to human actions.


  True