Beliefs About Deity Flashcards
What is the trinity?
Father, son and Holy Spirit.
What does transcendent mean?
Above all
What does immanent mean?
Within all
4 atheists arguments against God
Lack of evidence
Inconsistent triad
Personal reason I.e. He didn’t cure ma fish
Suffering in the world
6 main arguments for God
Pascal's wager theory Cosmological Teleological Moral Ontological Religious experience
What is Pascal’s wager theory?
There are 4 options so you should choose the one that benefits you the most
Religious life - eternal happiness
Pleasure life - denied eternal happiness
Religious life - no eternal life
Pleasure life - no eternal life
What is the cosmological argument + evidence
God was the first cause and uncaused cause
Many think that the evidence as to what caused the Big Bang is flimsy and that God must have caused it
Teleological argument? Evidence
Everything is so well put together, someone must have done it!
William Paley - there has to be a watchmaker. This didn’t come together by chance
Moral argument? And sweet sweet evidence
People have a basic understanding of right and wrong. This must have been given by someone
Cardinal Newman
“We feel responsible… Are frightened at transgressing the voice of conscience, this implies that there is one to whom we are responsible”
The existence of conscience implies a moral-law giver who we answer to - GOD!
Against cosmological argument
Science ya know
Big Bang was the first cause
Everything can be explained by science and not God
2 evidence against teleological argument
Richard Dawkins “the only watchmaker is the blind laws of physics”
Plato “God is not the author of all things but of good only”
Against moral argument? 2
Joseph fletcher - situation ethics. It is irrational to obey your conscience at every moment as you should judge every situation
People have different views of right and wrong. God has contradicting voices
Ontological argument? Evidence?
The best thing you can imagine is God
“That than which nothing greater can be conceived” - st ansel of Canterbury
8 natures of God please?
Omnibenevolent Omnipresent Omnipotent Omnipresent Immanent Transcendent Impersonal Personal
Beliefs ABOUT God? (4)
Father, son and Holy Spirit = God
God is eternal
God is just
God is the creator
Issues with the nature of God?
Mackie’s inconsistent triad!
If God is all loving, all powerful and all knowing then why does suffering happen?
Christian argument against the inconsistent triad? 2
Test of faith
Ineffable plan
Evidence of religious experience
Miracles
Catholic Church have accepted 66 miracles
Who is Jesus (4)
Human and fully divine
Teacher and guide (mentioned in the gospel 90 times)
Saviour
Eternal second coming
Which Christian groups focus on which parts of the trinity
Father - Catholics
Son- Quakers
Holy Spirit - evangelists
What are the two things Christians must believe in and why
The trinity
Heaven and salvation
It says it in the Nicene Creed
How does God intervene in the world through the Holy Spirit ?
Pentecost
Disciples filled with The Holy Spirit Could speak in all languages and tongues (glossolalia) Told to spread the world of God "Make disciples of all nations" Therefore you get Evangelical Christians
How does God intervene in the world through miracles? (4)
Catholic Church accepted 66 miracles
God cures people through Jesus
Feeding the 5000
Healing a blind man
Jesus performed 37 miracles
How does God intervene in the world through Jesus
Miracles
Teaches people. -mentioned in the gospel 90 times
Teaches the right ways to live
“I am the way and the truth and the light”
