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Beliefs About Deity Flashcards

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What is the trinity?

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Father, son and Holy Spirit.

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What does transcendent mean?

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Above all

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What does immanent mean?

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Within all

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4 atheists arguments against God

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Lack of evidence
Inconsistent triad
Personal reason I.e. He didn’t cure ma fish
Suffering in the world

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6 main arguments for God

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Pascal's wager theory 
Cosmological 
Teleological
Moral
Ontological 
Religious experience
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What is Pascal’s wager theory?

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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

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What is the cosmological argument + evidence

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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

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Teleological argument? Evidence

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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

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Moral argument? And sweet sweet evidence

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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!

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Against cosmological argument

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Science ya know

Big Bang was the first cause
Everything can be explained by science and not God

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2 evidence against teleological argument

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Richard Dawkins “the only watchmaker is the blind laws of physics”

Plato “God is not the author of all things but of good only”

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Against moral argument? 2

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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

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Ontological argument? Evidence?

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The best thing you can imagine is God

“That than which nothing greater can be conceived” - st ansel of Canterbury

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8 natures of God please?

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Omnibenevolent 
Omnipresent
Omnipotent 
Omnipresent 
Immanent 
Transcendent 
Impersonal
Personal
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Beliefs ABOUT God? (4)

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Father, son and Holy Spirit = God
God is eternal
God is just
God is the creator

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Issues with the nature of God?

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Mackie’s inconsistent triad!

If God is all loving, all powerful and all knowing then why does suffering happen?

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Christian argument against the inconsistent triad? 2

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Test of faith

Ineffable plan

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Evidence of religious experience

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Miracles

Catholic Church have accepted 66 miracles

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Who is Jesus (4)

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Human and fully divine
Teacher and guide (mentioned in the gospel 90 times)
Saviour
Eternal second coming

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Which Christian groups focus on which parts of the trinity

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Father - Catholics
Son- Quakers
Holy Spirit - evangelists

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What are the two things Christians must believe in and why

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The trinity
Heaven and salvation

It says it in the Nicene Creed

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How does God intervene in the world through the Holy Spirit ?

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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
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How does God intervene in the world through miracles? (4)

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Catholic Church accepted 66 miracles

God cures people through Jesus

Feeding the 5000
Healing a blind man
Jesus performed 37 miracles

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How does God intervene in the world through Jesus

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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”

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Evidence against describing God

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“It is arrogant of man to believe that he can describe God”

John Calvin

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Evidence God is omnibenevolent

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“As a mother comforts her child, I will comfort you”

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Evidence for god/Jesus being a moral guide

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“You call me teacher and Lord and rightly so for that is what I am”

“I am the way and the truth and the light”

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