Believing In God Flashcards
1
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Catholic Upbringing
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- Prayer
- Church
- Children’s Liturgy
- Confirmation classes
2
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Religious Experience
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- Miracle
- Numinous
- Prayer
- Conversion
3
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Argument from Design
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- Stone
- Watch, watchmaker
- Universe, universemaker
- Only powerful enough is God
4
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Against argument from design
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- Ambiguous
- Watch needs maker, universe doesn’t (fallacy of composition)
- Evolution + NS = design
- “Universe maker” not necessarily God
5
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Causation Argument
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- All things have a cause
- Can’t cause self to exist
- Must have a first cause
- God
6
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Against Causation Argument
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- God must also be caused
- Universe is eternal .:. chain of causes endless
- First cause could be any creator
7
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Science and Agnosticism/Atheisn
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- Can explain w/o God
- God not necessary
- If He existed, must be necessary
- Therefore he can’t exist
8
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Catholic Response to Science
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- Scripture is 6000 y/o love letter, creation story is fiction
- Many coincidences/miniscule probabilities, someone must have interfered
- Work side by side, don’t need eachother
- Church doesn’t condemn evolution
9
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Problem of evil
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- Omniscient, knows suffering
- Omnipotent, can stop
- Omnibenevolent, wants to stop
- Evil still exists
10
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Response to problem of evil
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- No good w/o bad
- Preparation for heaven
- Mystery
- Prayer and service
11
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Unanswered Prayer and Agnosticism/Atheism
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- Think must be doing something wrong
- Try hard and ask for advice
- Still no answer
- Either God doesn’t care or doesn’t exist
12
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Responses to Unanswered Prayer
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- May not fit plan
- May have been answered in a different way
- May not be motivated by love / backed up by good deeds
- Test of faith
