Arguments For The Existence Of God

Question 1

Visions examples

Answer 1

1. God giving Joan Of Arc visions which encouraged her to fight in the war.
2. Saul to Paul, where God makes him blind following a vision and then gives it back and he converts to Christianity.
3. The Burning Bush where Moses talks to God through a burning bush and tells him to free the Israelites.
4. The transfiguration, which is where Jesus took his disciples up a mountain and glows as God reveals himself through him.
5. The annunciation which is where Mary finds out she’s pregnant with Jesus through angel Gabriel.

Question 2

Revelation examples

Answer 2

1. Noah’s Ark
2. Burning Bush
   3.Abraham sacrificing Isaac

Question 3

Revelation definition

Answer 3

Gaining new knowledge on something

Question 4

Covenant definition

Answer 4

A promise/agreement with God

Question 5

Covenant examples

Answer 5

1. God’s covenant with Noah and humanity that he will never annihilate everyone again.
2. God’s covenant with Abraham that he will give him as many children as the stars in the sky and the dust on the earth.
3. God’s covenant with David that his descendant will reign on the throne over the people of God. (Jesus)

Question 6

Miracles examples

Answer 6

1. Jesus turning water into wine at a feast.
2. Abraham and his wife’s sudden ability to have thousands and thousands of children just as they previously couldn’t.
3. Jesus’s resurrection.

Question 7

All reasons for prayer

Answer 7

1. Adoration - To express love to God.
2. Thanksgiving - To give thanks to God for everything.
3. Confession - To acknowledge sins no matter the severity.
4. Supplication - To request for something from God.

Question 8

The Teleological argument

Answer 8

This argues that just as a watch is too intricate and complex to just exist, therefore it must have a maker the earth is exactly the same. By William Paley.

Question 9

Arguments against the existence of God.

Answer 9

1. The Big Bang created the universe.
2. We are just very lucky to have perfect conditions.
3. Natural evil

Question 10

The Cosmological Argument by Thomas Aquinas

Answer 10

1. The unmoved mover - Everything is in motion in the world. Things can’t move by themselves and must have a cause. Since there can’t be infinite things moving by themselves, there must be an origin, or a first mover, which is God. This is likened to dominoes being pushed and the others subsequently falling.
2. The first cause - That everything has a cause and without a 1st cause there’d be no other causes or effects. The first cause is God.
3. Contingency - Everything in the universe is contingent of something else. There can’t be an infinite chain of contingencies, so the nessercary being is God,

To summarise it’s just the idea of cause and effect and God is the first cause.

Question 11

Religious upbringing features

Answer 11

1. Going to church
2. Being baptised
3. Going to Sunday club/ Sunday school
4. Praying with family for example before bed or before meals