3.1 Belief In God

Question 1

What is the definition of Agnosticism?

Answer 1

Not being sure whether God exists

Question 2

What is the definition of Atheism?

Answer 2

Believing that God does not exist

Question 3

What is the definition of Theism?

Answer 3

Believing that God does exist

Question 4

What is a Prayer?

Answer 4

An attempt to contact God, usually through words

Question 5

What is the definition of Omnibenevolent?

Answer 5

The belief that God is good or kind

Question 6

What is the definition of Omnipotent?

Answer 6

The belief that God is all powerful

Question 7

What is the definition of Omniscient?

Answer 7

The belief God knows everything that’s happened and everything that’s going to happen

Question 8

What is the definition of Conversion?

Answer 8

When your life is changed by giving yourself to God

Question 9

What is a Miracle?

Answer 9

Something which seems to break the law of science and makes you think only God could have done it

Question 10

What is the definition of Numinous?

Answer 10

The feeling of presence of something greater than you

Question 11

What is a Religious Experience?

Answer 11

An event where people fell that they have had direct contact with God

Question 12

What is Free Will?

Answer 12

The idea that human beings are free to make their own choices

Question 13

What is Moral Evil?

Answer 13

Actions done by humans which cause suffering

Question 14

What is Natural Evil?

Answer 14

Things that cause suffering but have no human link

Question 15

How would a Religious Upbringing make you believe in God?

Answer 15

1. They’re surrounded by others who are convinced of Gods existence
2. If it’s passed in generations it will become normal to believe
3. Constantly learning in school, churches and at home leads them to think he exists

Question 16

How would a Religious Experience lead you to believe in God’s existence?

Answer 16

1. When a prayer is answered they believe it’s God
2. Miracles that have happened
3. Conversion

Question 17

What is the Design Argument?

Answer 17

The universe must have been designed by an extremely clever being, not by accident - the only possible designer is God

Question 18

What is the Causation Argument?

Answer 18

If the universe has a beginning then something must have caused it, it didn’t happen by accident so something caused it and brought it into existence - this is God, he exists

Question 19

How would Scientific Explanations lead you to disbelieve in God?

Answer 19

1. Big Bang says how the universe began

2. Evolution explains where animals and humans came from

Question 20

How would Unanswered Prayers lead you to disbelieve in God?

Answer 20

Good prayers are not answered e.g. End poverty, cure cancer

Question 21

How do Catholics respond to the problem of Evil and Suffering?

Answer 21

1. God created people with Free Will
2. To some Catholic’s life is a test
3. Others say that ‘God works in mysterious ways’

Question 22

Give an example of Media that affects a persons belief in God

Answer 22

Bruce Almighty