Believing In God (christianty) Flashcards
How would religious upbringings support a persons belief in god?
Surrounded by others who think god exists. Religion runs through family will seem natural to believe in god, learning about god at home school and church
What are four religious upbringing
Christians baptise kids at young age, child taught to pray and go to church, celebrate Christmas and Easter and there meanings, Sunday school - encouragement to be a good Christian and lead a Christian life
Religious experience definition
An event where people feel direct contact to god
Religious experiences
Conversion, miracles, prayer
Arguments for god
Design argument William paley, causation argument universe must be a cause to it’s existence this being god
Arguments against god
Scientific explanation, unanswered prayers, moral evil, natural evil
Agnosticism
Not sure if god exists
Atheism
Not believing in god
Theism
Believing in god
Prayer
An attempt to make contact to god with words
Omnibenevolent
God is all loving and kind
Omnipotent
Belief that god is all powerful
Omniscient
The Beowulf that god can see everything and future
Conversion
Life is changed as giving yourself to god
Miracle
Something that goes against science and that only god could of done it
Numinous
The feeling of something greater than you
Free will
Humans are free to make their own choices
Moral evil
Done by humans creat suffering
Natural evil
Things that cause suffering nothing to do with humans
