Existance Of God And Revelation Key Words

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Agnostic

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Someone who thinks there is not enough evidence for belief in God

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Atheist

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A person that believes that God does not exist

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Conversion

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When your life is changed by giving yourself to God

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Creation

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The act by which God brought the universe into being

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Design argument

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Also know as teleological. The argument that God designed the universe, because everything is so intricately made in its details that it could not have happened by chance

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Enlightenment

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The gaining of true knowledge about God or self, usually through meditation or self-discipline

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Eternal

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Without beginning or end

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First Cause Argument

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Also called the cosmological argument; the argument that there has to be an uncaused cause that made everything happen, otherwise there would be nothing now.

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Free will

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

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General revelation

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God making himself known through ordinary, common human experience

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Immanent

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See idea that human beings are free to make their own choices

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Impersonal nature (of God)

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The idea that God has no human characteristics, is unknowable and mysterious, more like an idea or force.

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Miracle

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Something which seems to break the law of science and makes you think only God could have done it

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Moral evil

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Actions done by humans which cause suffering

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Nature

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The physical world including plants, animals and landscape, the environment and the natural world

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Natural evil

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Things like earthquakes and floods which cause suffering and have nothing to do with humans

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Numinous

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The feeling you get when you’re in a great cathedral all looking at the stars and feel there is something much greater than you

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Omni benevolent

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The belief that God is all good

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Omnipotent

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The belief that God is all powerful/can do anything

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Omniscient

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I believe that God knows everything that has happened and that is going to happen

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Personal nature (of God)

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The idea that God is an individual or person with whom people are able to have a relationship or feel close to

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Prayer

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An attempt to contact God, usually through words

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Proof

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Evidence that supports the truth of something

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Faith

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A commitment to something that goes beyond proof or knowledge, especially used about God and religion

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Revelation

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God showing himself to believers, this is the only way anybody can really know anything about God.

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Scripture

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The sacred writings of religion, for Christians to use it in new and old Testament

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Special revelation

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God making himself known through direct personal experience or an unusual specific event

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Suffering

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When people have to face and live with unpleasant events or conditions

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Theist

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Person who believes in God

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Transcendent

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The idea that God is beyond and outside life on Earth and the universe.

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Ultimate reality

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The supreme, final, fundamental power in all reality

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Vision

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Seeing something especially in a dream or chance that show something about the nature of God or the afterlife