This self-consciousness, which is identical to freedom, enables God to project these ideas from himself i.e., to create the world.
Why would knowledge of the future be useful to God? Well, presumably knowledge of the future enables God to make decisions about how to exercise divine power in order to accomplish the purposes behind creation.
It is apparent, then, that neither conceptual resources nor resources founded in the concrete world will enable God to know in advance of his decisions as creator which counterfactuals of freedom are true.
The appropriation of the legal tradition did not lead to the conclusion (at least for Scotus, Ockham and Holkot) that God uses his absolute power to act inordinately in the ordained system, but rather it enables God (as it did in the change from the Old to the New Law) to set aside one ordained system and replace it with another.
This led Holkot to argue against Ockham's contention that God's omnipotent power to cause directly whatever is ordinarily caused through secondary causes would enable God to conserve the intuitive cognition of an object even after the object has been destroyed.
His suffering, being swallowed by a whale, both enabled God's plan to be fulfilled and also brought Jonah closer to God: Jonah ended up repenting for his sin and the people of Nineveh turn to God.
In the prophetic religions, revelation is primarily understood as the "Word of God," enabling the prophet to speak with certainty about God's actions and intentions.
To enable a God-image to influence an individual's behaviour as explained above, the individual first has to have a God-image.
Scientists now know that Halcyon days are caused by stagnant high-pressure weather systems, rather than vengeful gods, enabling them to use the theatrical weather records to study how the region's climate evolved over time.
Like the other Cambridge Platonists Culverwell emphasises the freedom of the will and proposes an innatist epistemology, according to which the mind is furnished with 'clear and indelible Principles' and reason an 'intellectual lamp' placed in the soul by God to enable it to understand God's will promulgated in the law of nature.
The idea of being, therefore, with its divine characteristics serves as a bridge between God and human beings, enabling us to posit proofs of God's existence without our knowing him through perception, or real contact.
