Beliefs About Deity Flashcards
What is God described as?
Omnipotent, omniscient, transcendent, immanent, omnibenevolent, omnipresent
What is an analogy?
An analogy means using words symbolically to represent something else. This means words do not mean the same thing when they are applied to God.
What is a myth?
A myth is a story that is not factually true but has important spiritual truths.
What is a symbol?
A symbol is the way of explaining the unexplainable. This uses something to represent something else.
Quotes that show God is male?
‘All things have been committed to me by my Father’- Jesus (Matthew 11:27)
Quote that God is female?
‘As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you’ - Isaiah (66:13a)
What so the trinity?
Christians believe that God is made up of three parts or persons.
What is in the trinity?
God who is the Father
God who is the Son.
God who is the Holy Spirit.
What did Jesus teach about God?
Jesus taught that God is a loving father and that he is kind and merciful but fair.
What is the ontological argument?
By: St. Anselm of Canterbury
What?: God is the most perfect being imaginable and therefore he must exist otherwise we would not know how to describe him.
What is the cosmological argument?
By: sir Thomas Aquinas
What?: something cannot come from nothing- something or someone must have brought it into existence. Everything can be traced back to the first cause aka God.
What is the teleological argument?
By:William Paley
What?: the world shows that it has been designed by someone; it could not have come about by chance.
What theory challenged the teleological argument?
Darwin’s natural selection theory
What is the argument from experience?
God can be experienced.this may be through miracles.
What is the moral argument?
People have a simple understanding of good and bad, so therefore this must come from God.
