AQA A-Level Philosophy 4.2.1 Metaphysics of God overview quiz quiz

By simply denying that God is wholly good while keeping his omnipotence intact

By claiming that God can make the stone but freely chooses not to lift it himself

By saying the stone does not really exist and so the paradox never genuinely arises

By restricting omnipotence to what is logically possible

An action is good because God commands it

God commands an action because it is good

Good and God are identical

Goodness is independent of any mind

A posteriori and inductive

A priori and deductive

A posteriori and deductive

A priori and inductive

The uncaused first cause that brought the whole of the universe into existence

The intelligent designer responsible for the order and purpose seen in the universe

That than which nothing greater can be conceived

A supremely perfect being who necessarily possesses the property of existence itself

The analogy drawn between the universe and a watch is far too weak to support the conclusion

The universe does not in fact require any first cause to explain why it exists at all

By the same reasoning a perfect island would also have to exist, which is plainly absurd

Existence is not a real predicate that adds to a concept

The ontological argument

The cosmological argument

The design argument

The problem of evil

The cosmological argument

Paley's design argument

The ontological argument

The Kalam argument

God exists, evil exists, free will exists

God is timeless, God is omniscient, and humans are free

God is omnipotent, God is supremely good, and evil exists

God designed the world, the world is ordered, and suffering exists

The soul-making theodicy

The appeal to the limits of human understanding

Eschatological verification

The free will defence

Analytic or empirically verifiable

Useful to the speaker or emotionally comforting in some way

Sincerely believed by a clear majority of people

Either logically necessary or else necessarily false

Religious claims can be fully verified right now by our ordinary present experience

Religious claims are verifiable in principle after death

Religious claims are meaningless precisely because they can never be verified at all

Religious claims do not state any fact but merely express the speaker's own attitude