Chapter 6 Flashcards
Worldview
A web of beliefs that allows certain information to flow through as truth and other statements to be rejected as false
Theology
Is there a god or any supernatural being
Metaphysics
What is real? Is reality real?
Cosmology
What are the origins of man and the universe
Teleology
What is my meaning and purpose in life
Axiology
How do I know what is right and wrong
Eschatology
What is my destiny after death
Epistemology
What is truth? How can I know it
Anthropology
What is the state of man? Is he good or sinful
What is the critique of atheism?
- They do not give adequate reasons for believing God does not exist
- They do not prove that our concept of God includes factual contradictions
- They do not have reasonable answers when asked questions concerning ethics and purpose in life
Critique of agnocitism
- Does not adequately answer the question of ethical foundations
- They claim that you can not know anything about God, yet they claim that he is unknowable
In pantheism is there a distinction between God and the universe?
Nope. They are one being
What problem do pantheistic face by equating God and the universe?
The universe is finite and changes or runs down. For God and the universe to be the same, the universe would have to be eternal with no beginning point and thus is denied by science.
Important American desists?
Franklin and Jefferson
Critiques of deism
- If the God of deism is no able to act in his own creation, then he is not infinite
- The idea that the laws of science was trustworthy to explain ongoing operation of the universe without God has diminished.
What two religion groups practice polytheism today?
Mormonism and Hinduism
What is the biggest problem polytheist have to deal with?
- The origin of the world
2. Which God to listen to if they are all supreme and are all giving commands
What is a kind of finite Godism?
Open theism
Critiques of open theism
- For God to be limited in Any of his attributes would mean that he is finite sync thus is subject to change and would need a creator
- If God changes or has the capability to change then ethics can not be based on his character and there is no absolute truth
Main monotheistic religions
Christianity
Judaism
Islam
Naturalism
There is nothing beyond the natural
Atheism
There is no God
Agnosticism
You can’t know if there is a God
Supernaturalism
There is something beyond the natural