Belief In God (Paper 1) Flashcards

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Give four examples of religious upbringing.

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  • Baptism (promise to bring up children to believe in God)
  • Teach to pray (direct relationship with God)
  • Take to worship (community who shows people who believe)

Catholic school (teaching children in a catholic environment)

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How can a religious upbringing lead to Belief In God?

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  • Follow in the footsteps of their parents.
  • It becomes normal to believe in God.
  • You have been taught that that is the correct thing.
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Name four religious experiences.

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  • Numinous feeling (presence of something greater than yourself)
  • Conversion (life changed by giving to God)
  • Miracles (something which breaks the laws of science)
  • Prayer (an attempt to contact god)
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How can religious experiences lead to Belief In God?

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Only possible explanation is God.

The presence of somebody much greater such as God.

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Show using the design argument why God must exist.

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  • Anything that has been designed needs a designer.
  • The only person powerful enough to design the earth is God.
  • Things like the eye appeared in the design argument.
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Criticism of the design argument.

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  • No designer would have created natural evil.
  • Science has proved that it was designed without God.
  • Even if the argument that God was the designer how could you prove it is God.
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Show using the causation argument why God must exist.

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  • Everything needs a cause as it can happen by itself.
  • If you retrace the creation of the universe there must have been a cause.
  • The only person powerful enough to creat the universe is God.
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Criticism of the causation argument.

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  • If everything needs a cause who caused God?
  • if God doesn’t need a cause the universe does not either.
  • Even if there was a first cause it may not have been God.
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Show some scientific explanations for the creation of the universe.

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  • About 15 million years ago the Big Bang formed our solar system.
  • About 2.5 million years ago humans evolved.
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How can scientific explanations lead to atheism?

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  • Science can explain where the world came from without God.
  • There is explanations and evidence for science but not God.
  • Why would God crest dinosaurs to destroy them?
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Christian responses to science.

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  • The 6 days of creation in Genesis may be equivalent to millions of years each.
  • Creationists believe the creation is exactly as the Bible says.
  • Fossils may have been put by humans to trick people.
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Explain what the two evils are.

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Moral evil (caused by humans)

Natural evil (not caused by humans)

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Why can suffering and evil lead to people not Believing In God?

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If God existed then there would be no evil and suffering.

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What are Christian explanations of evil and suffering?

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  • Christians wants to give people the opportunity to stop suffering like Jesus taught.
  • Caused by misusing free will, which is a human problem.
  • Evil is a test to prepare us for heaven or hell.
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How can an unanswered prayer lead the atheism?

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  • When people pray they can’t feel the presence of God.

- If someone prays and their prayer has not been answered.

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16
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What are Christian responses to unanswered prayers?

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  • If you pray something selfish then your prayer will not be answered.
  • God may have a different way of answering your prayer.
  • God may answer ‘no’ because he has the better judgement.