Existance Of God And Revelations Flashcards

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Transcendent

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Apart from the world/ god is not part of creation

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2
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God is personal

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He is involved in the life of Christians

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God is impersonal

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He is beyond human comprehension he does not have a personal relationship with people

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4
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How can god be transcendent and imminent

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Because he is part of the trinity

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5
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Do Buddhists believe in a god

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No

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6
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What do Buddhists seek

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Enlightenment

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7
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Why do Buddhists differ from Christians

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Because Christians are keen to find out about god whereas a Buddhist is more interested in finding out about themselves

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8
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Who do pure land Buddhists believe in

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Amitabha

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9
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How do Theravada Buddhists see Buddha

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As a historical influencer

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How do Mahayana Buddhists see Buddha

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As imminent and personal. They see him in visions

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11
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William Paley

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Pocket watch theory. The world is so intricately designed that there must’ve been a creator

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12
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For tennant

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Goldilocks effect. God made everything just right

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13
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What is the problem with god being the creator or the world

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There is suffering despite the nature of the Devine

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14
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What is life to a Buddhist

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A constant cycle

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15
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Aquinas

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Everything happens due to a cause

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16
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What do scientists say is the first cause

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Big Bang

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17
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Who would Christians say started the Big Bang

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God

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18
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What would scientists say in response to god creating the Big Bang?

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What caused god then?

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19
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What’s the problem with god creating the Big Bang

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He could’ve done it by accident so this doesn’t make him loving

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20
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Why don’t Buddhists believe in the first cause

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Because there isn’t one. There is no creator

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21
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What is a miracle

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When something happens which has no scientific explanation. These must be a sign of gods existence

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22
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Examples of miracles

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Grayson Kirby/ Moses and the Red Sea

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23
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What would an atheist say in response to a miracle

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It’s just a happy coincidence

24
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What would an atheist say in response to Grayson Kirby

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There was a tiny chance that he would survive but doctors discarded. His survival wasn’t impossible

25
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What is the placebo effect

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If you think you will survive u change your mindset and this will make you more likely to survive

26
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Partisan

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God has favourites

27
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Arbitrary

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Selects random people

28
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How are miracles or visions manipulating

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They fool gullible people into believing in god. Through books or the god channel on tv

29
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How do Buddhists interprets miracles

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When u meditate you able able to develop powers

30
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What happens in stories about Buddha

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Miraculous events which are symbolic

31
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Why are tragic events not seen as a punishment from god

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Because science can explain why they happened

32
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God of the gaps

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Science has filled the gaps the god once needed to fill. Such as the origins of the universe

33
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Anthony flew

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Invisibles garden her story shows how people will never agree on how the world came about

34
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What is a revelation

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When a religious person believes that god is revealing something to them by either telling them. What to do or sowing them something

35
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What divisions to theologians divide revelations into

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Special and general

36
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What is a special revelation

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When god reveals himself to an individual or aspecific group of people

37
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What is a general revelation

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When god reveals himself to everybody but only certain people notice (sunset etc)

38
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What do fundamentalist Christians take seriously

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beliefs about homosexuality, the death penalty and don’t work on the sabbath

39
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How would liberal Christians interpret the laws of the Bible

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As not serious . Times have changed now so,so will laws

40
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How would atheist humanists interpret the bible

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As a collection of ancient wisdom. Although it contains elements of wisdom it is not specifically from god

41
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How do atheists criticise the bible

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It is full of contradictions because it was written by different people at different times

42
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How do Christians read the bible

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Selectively which makes their views hypocritical

43
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Why is scripture important for Buddhists

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It points to the truth so people can find enlightenment

44
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Why is nature not always a good way to recognise god

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Because nature can be unsavoury and destructive. This doesn’t show a loving god

45
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Why is the worlds beauty not a sign of gods existence for Buddhists

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They don’t believe in god and life is a constant cycle

46
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What is a vision

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A picture of a religious figure (Jesus or the Virgin Mary for example)

47
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Saint Paul’s vision

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Jesus said to him ‘why are you persecution me’ then he became an evangelist

48
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What was created after a vision in Mahayana Buddhism

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Tibetan book of the dead

49
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What do Buddhists practise to evoke a vision or a bodhisattva

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Mantras and these visions will prove that there is a spiritual world waiting for them

50
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What do atheists think cause visions

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Stress, mental illness, drugs

51
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Why might people say they had a vision

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Go get peoples attention

52
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Example of a miracle which defies nature

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Jesus healing the blind

53
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Example of an amazing coincidence

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Surviving an esarthquake

54
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How are coincidences made extreme

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With people retelling the events and people building them up in their mind

55
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How do scientists explain miracles

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They’re not supernatural they will have a scientific explanation in the future