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Beliefs about Diety Flashcards

1
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Name some characteristics of God (8)

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-Omnipotent
-Omniscient
-Omnibenevolent
-Omnipresent
-Transcendent
-Immanent
-Personal
In-personal

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What is a quote to show God being transcendent?

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“No one has ever seen God” 1 John 4v12

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What is a quote to show God is omniscient?

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“judges the secret thoughts of all” Romans 2v16

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Who makes up the Trinity? (3)

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  • Father
  • Son
  • Holy Spirit
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What is the Father?

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-Transcendent

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What is the Son? (3)

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  • Jesus
  • Immanent
  • Personal
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What is the Holy Spirit? (2)

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  • Immanent

- Impersonal

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What evidence is there for the Trinity?

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Nicene Creed

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Who was Jesus? (5)

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  • Fully human & fully divine (God)
  • Messiah/Saviour
  • Rose from the dead
  • Teacher
  • Miracle worker
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What is a quote for Jesus?

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  • “I am the way, the truth and the life, nobody gets to the father except through me.” John 14v6
  • “I am the resurrection and the life” John 11v25
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What happened at Pentecost?

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The disciples were given the Holy Spirit and they spoke in tongues

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Why was the Holy Spirit given to the disciples?

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Jesus had left them on earth and he sent the Holy Spirit to help them

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What are the arguments for God? (6)

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  • Cosmological
  • Teleological
  • Ontological
  • Personal
  • Moral
  • Bible
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What is the Cosmological argument?

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God was the first cause because everything must have had a start
- ‘something cannot come from nothing’ -Aquinas

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What is the Teleological argument?

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The world has to of had a designer and that was God. - Isaac Newton said ‘In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence
- ‘Just like a watch has a designer, the world must have a designer’ -Paley

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What is the Ontological argument?

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We can think of God and so he must exist

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How can people feel a personal experience of God? (3)

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  • Answered Prayers
  • Miracles
  • Visions
    e. g. Nicky Cruz
18
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What is the moral argument?

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Without God we wouldn’t know what is right or wrong

- ‘If there is no God, than everything is permissible’

19
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What are arguments against God? (4)

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  • Suffering
  • Science (evolution, big bang)
  • Evil
  • Infinite regress
20
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What is a miracle?

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An act of God that breaks laws of nature

21
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What is Lourdes?

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A place in France where people go to have miracles performed

22
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What miracles are there in the bible? (4)

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  • Parting of the Red Sea (Old Testament)
  • Jesus healing the bleeding woman (New Testament)
  • Jesus resurrecting Lazarth (New Testament)
  • Jesus’ resurrection (New testament)

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