Definitions Flashcards

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Miricales

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Something that seems to break the laws of science and makes you think that only god could have done it

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Numinous

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The feeling of the presence of something greater than you

Eg. In a church or looking up to the stars

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Payers

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Attempt to contact God, usually though words

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Conversation

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Where another person changes from one religion to another

When your life is changed by giving yourself to God

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Free will

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The idea the human beings are free to make their own choices

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Agnosticism

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Not being sure wether god exists or not

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Atheism

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Believing that God does not exists

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Moral evil

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Actions done by humans which cause suffering

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Natural evil

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Things which cause suffering but have nothing to do with humans

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Omnipotent

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He belief that God is all powerful

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Omni-benevolent

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The belief the god is all good and kind

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Omniscient

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The belief that God knows everything that has happened nd everything that will happen

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Civil partnership

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A legal ceremony giving homosexual couples the same legal rights as a husband and wife

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Cohabitation

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Living together but not married

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Nuclear family

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Mother, father and children living as unit

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Re-constitution family

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Where two sets of children (step-brother and step-sister) become one family when their divorced parents marry each other

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Homosexuality

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Sexual attractions between the same sex

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Re-marriage

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Marring again after being divorced from a previous marriage

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Adultery

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A sexual act between a married person and someone other than their married partner

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Faithfulness

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Staying with your married partner and having sex only with them

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Pre-marital sex

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Sex before marriage

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Procreation

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Making a new life

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Promiscuity

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Having sex with a number of partners without commitment

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Contraception

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Internationally preventing pregnancy from occurring

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Mystical experience

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Experiencing God’s voice or a religious version

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Design argument

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God designed the universe

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Causation argument

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God is the first cause of the universe

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Fundamentalist

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A christian who takes the Bible word for word

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Liberal

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A christian who takes the Bible as symbolic

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Resurrection

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The idea that the body can rise again after death

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Akirah

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Muslim word for life after death

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Al’Jannah

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Muslim word for heaven

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Jahannam

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Muslim word for hell

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Qur’an

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Sacred book of Islam

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Reincarnation

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The belief that after death, souls are reborn in a new body

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Ensoulment

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The moment an unborn baby has a soul

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Non-voluntary euthanasia

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When someone is in a coma and are unable to ask for euthanasia

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Polygamy

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Legally being married to more than one person

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Celibacy

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Choosing not to have sex before marriage

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Conception

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The moment an egg is fertilised by a sperm