ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the problems regarding the claim that God is omnipotent immutable and omniscient. It is important to note two presuppositions involved in all such impetratory prayer: First, the things prayed for have what Geach calls two-way contingency, i.e. it is neither impossible nor inevitable that God should bring them about. Secondly, the prayer itself is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for God's doing what is asked. Impetratory prayer entails that God does things he would not have done if one had not prayed, this seems to imply that God can change his mind in response to prayers. That God's will is eternal and therefore immutable, does not exclude that the effects of his will should be temporal and subject to change. God is omniscient and knows everything in the sense that for every proposition p, if p is true then God knows that p, and if God knows that p then p is true.
