Deity Sept-Oct 2014 Flashcards
Omnipotent?
All powerful
What are the qualities of the God of Philosophy?
Omnipotent Omniscience Omni-benevolent Transcendent Immanent Personal Eternal Creator Judge
Omniscience?
All knowing
Omni-benevolent?
All loving
Transcendent?
God is beyond us
Immanent?
God is present with you at all times.
Personal?
God is concerned about individuals.
Impersonal?
Beyond time and space; beyond us.
Monotheistic?
The belief in ONE God.
Explain the concept of the trinity?
God is one entity, but has three different forms.
THE FATHER
THE SON
THE HOLY SPIRIT
In the trinity,
Explain the form of the father?
He is beyond us and beyond the world.
Immense power and ability
Transcendent
In the trinity,
Explain the form of the son?
Jesus
Took on human form- INCARNATE
Lived a human life
In the trinity,
Explain the form of the holy spirit?
Non-physical
Always present
Guides Christians
Cosmological argument?
Everything has a cause.
But there is one uncaused cause which causes everything.
This uncaused cause must be God.
Therefore, God exists.
Teleological argument?
Things in the world appear to be designed.
Implies the existence of a designer.
This designer must be extremely intelligent and capable.
This being is God.
Therefore, God exists.
Moral argument?
Everyone knows right from wrong, our conscience.
This is a gift from God.
Therefore God exists.
When we do something wrong, the feeling of guilt is a sense of God and of his presence.
Ontological argument?
God is the greatest being.
It is better to exist, rather than not to.
To be the greatest being, God therefore must exist.
Religious experience?
People have intense, spiritual and unusual experiences.
They do not feel as if there is anything that can account for it in this world.
The experience must be of an external source.
This source is God.
Arguments against God:
Freud’s argument?
God is a construct of the un-conscience mind; seeking to comfort itself.
People want God to exist, but this is simply wish fulfilment.
Religion is an obsessive compulsive ritualistic act to soothe anxiety.
Religion is an INFANTILE NEUROSIS.
Arguments against God?
Marx’s argument?
Religion is the OPIATE OF THE MASSES.
By consuming it, you are not dealing with reality.
This will not change your situation.
Only by rejecting the drug, and seeing the truth will you be free of it.
Religion and God are made up as a way of controlling the working class.
The atonement?
Teaching of God.
Jesus Christ took the punishment for the sins of the whole world so that God and Humanity could be one.
Jesus is the SAVIOUR of the world.
Thomas Aquinas?
A proponent of the COSMOLOGICAL argument.
A priori?
An a priori argument, in an argument that relies on logic and not not any experience.
Ontological.
John Henry Newman?
Moral argument.
He argues that our conscience is a gift from God.
A posteriori?
An argument based on experience. (Using empirical senses.)
Teleological, Cosmological, Religious Experience, Moral.
How to layout an argument?
Introductory section
Main body (main argument, objection, reply)
Conclusion
Anselm?
Main proponent of the ONTOLOGICAL argument.
Rudolf Otto?
Noted that RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCES have the distinct element of being numinous (awe.)
Sauls conversion?
RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
Saul persecuted Christians for going against Islam.
On the way to Damascus (to persecute Christians) he was blinded.
After three days he got his sight back and became a Christian.
