Beliving in God

Question 1

2 main features of a catholic upbringing

Answer 1

1) Have babies baptised

2) sens children to catholic schools

Question 2

How can a catholic upbringing may lead to a belief in God

Answer 2

1) Parents-will lead them to believe
2) Catholics pray to God-trust parents about praying
3) Mass-make them to believe
4) school-get taught that God exists

Question 3

What are the 4 things thats make religious experience may lead to a belief in God & what are they?

Answer 3

1) Numinous-a feeling of the presence of God
2) Converison-to describe an experience of God
3) Miracle-an event that breaks a law of science & can only be explained by God
4) Prayer-a way to contact God

Question 4

The design arguement

Answer 4

1) anything that has been desgined needs a designer
2) there is plenty of evidencd that the world has been designed
3) if the world has been designed, the world must have a desinger
4) the only possible designer of something as wonderful as the universe would be God
5) therfore tge apperance of design in the world proves that God exists

Question 5

Causarion argument

Answer 5

1) Cause & effect seem to be a basic feature of the world
2) this means that the universe, the world & humans must have had a cause
3) God is the only logical cause of the universe
4) therfore God must exist

Question 6

2 scientific explanations why god may not exist

Answer 6

1) Big bang

2) evolution

Question 7

Catholics response to scientific explanations of the world

Answer 7

1) only God could have made the big bang
2)Only god could have made
laws such as gravity
3)On God could have made the gases on Earth