Can The Existence Of God Be Known Through Reason Alone? Flashcards

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Christians can use ? ? to gain knowledge of truths that aren’t available to ? and ?

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Revealed theology.
Observation.
Reason.

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Natural theology provides people with a rational basis for faith (and an opportunity for people to share discussion about God), and ? ? supplies the details of that faith.

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Revealed theology.

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Only those who believe in revelation consider themselves to have any knowledge of God. So, Christians may argue God can only be known through ?

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Christianity.

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Barth believe it was a form of ? to imagine that fallible human reason could lead people into any knowledge of God.

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Arrogance.

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Barth believed that ? could only know God when God chose to disclose himself to them. ? only happens when God decides.

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People.

Revelation.

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Defenders of ? ? argue Barth’s view’s too extreme. If human reason’s given no part to play in the ? of God, then people have no way of judging between true and false beliefs.

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Natural theology.

Knowledge.

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A problem of natural theology’s that human reason’s too limited and God’s beyond reason. God’s not something that can be grasped and understood through ? ?

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Logical reasoning.

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