Saturday, September 04, 2021

PhD: Twitter quote 100

PhD: Twitter quote 100

Photo: AR_200417_GortonMons-1 Manchester Evening News, Gorton Monastery

Preface

I think I have viewed Gorton Monastery while in a motor vehicle, but I do not believe it was near my walking routes, although looking at a map, it was close.

In my Reformed theology, God's infinite attributes work within the logically possible. For examples, God cannot choose to cease to exist (as logically necessary, and the first and primary cause), make the finite, infinite, or create another infinite, omnipotent God, equal to self.

God the Son, as infinite, within the Trinity, did (does) take a finite, human nature in the incarnation. Correctly, and classically, the natures do not mix. Jesus Christ is both finite man and infinite God.

PhD: Twitter quote 100

Edited from PhD thesis


2010 Theodicy and Practical Theology: PhD thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter 

Twitter version I

Thiessen defines omnipotence as meaning the creator is able to accomplish whatever he wills, as long as it does not oppose his nature. Thiessen (1956: 126). 

Twitter version II

Omnipotence: Herman Bavinck reasons God does whatever pleases God. Bavinck (1918)(2006: 233 Volume 2). 

BAVINCK, HERMAN (1918)(2006) Reformed Dogmatics Volume 2: God and Creation, John Bolt (gen.ed.), Translated by John Vriend, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids. 

BAVINCK, HERMAN (1918)(2006) Reformed Dogmatics Volume 3: Sin and Salvation in Christ, John Bolt (gen.ed.), Translated by John Vriend, Baker Academic, Grand Rapids. 

ERICKSON, MILLARD (1994) Christian Theology, Grand Rapids, Baker Book House.

ERICKSON, MILLARD (2003) What Does God Know and When Does He Know It? Grand Rapids, Zondervan. 

FEINBERG, JOHN.S. (1986) Predestination and Free Will, in David Basinger and Randall Basinger (eds.), Downers Grove, Illinois, InterVarsity Press.

FEINBERG, JOHN.S. (1994) The Many Faces of Evil, Grand Rapids, Zondervan Publishing House. 

FEINBERG, JOHN.S. (2001) No One Like Him, John S. Feinberg (gen.ed.), Wheaton, Illinois, Crossway Books.

THIESSEN, HENRY C. (1956) Introductory Lectures in Systematic Theology, Grand Rapids, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company.

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