Existance Of God And Revelations

Question 1

Transcendent

Answer 1

Apart from the world/ god is not part of creation

Question 2

God is personal

Answer 2

He is involved in the life of Christians

Question 3

God is impersonal

Answer 3

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

Question 4

How can god be transcendent and imminent

Answer 4

Because he is part of the trinity

Question 5

Do Buddhists believe in a god

Answer 5

No

Question 6

What do Buddhists seek

Answer 6

Enlightenment

Question 7

Why do Buddhists differ from Christians

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Who do pure land Buddhists believe in

Answer 8

Amitabha

Question 9

How do Theravada Buddhists see Buddha

Answer 9

As a historical influencer

Question 10

How do Mahayana Buddhists see Buddha

Answer 10

As imminent and personal. They see him in visions

Question 11

William Paley

Answer 11

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

Question 12

For tennant

Answer 12

Goldilocks effect. God made everything just right

Question 13

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

Answer 13

There is suffering despite the nature of the Devine

Question 14

What is life to a Buddhist

Answer 14

A constant cycle

Question 15

Aquinas

Answer 15

Everything happens due to a cause

Question 16

What do scientists say is the first cause

Answer 16

Big Bang

Question 17

Who would Christians say started the Big Bang

Answer 17

God

Question 18

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

Answer 18

What caused god then?

Question 19

What’s the problem with god creating the Big Bang

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Why don’t Buddhists believe in the first cause

Answer 20

Because there isn’t one. There is no creator

Question 21

What is a miracle

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Examples of miracles

Answer 22

Grayson Kirby/ Moses and the Red Sea

Question 23

What would an atheist say in response to a miracle

Answer 23

It’s just a happy coincidence

Question 24

What would an atheist say in response to Grayson Kirby

Answer 24

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

Question 25

What is the placebo effect

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Partisan

Answer 26

God has favourites

Question 27

Arbitrary

Answer 27

Selects random people

Question 28

How are miracles or visions manipulating

Answer 28

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

Question 29

How do Buddhists interprets miracles

Answer 29

When u meditate you able able to develop powers

Question 30

What happens in stories about Buddha

Answer 30

Miraculous events which are symbolic

Question 31

Why are tragic events not seen as a punishment from god

Answer 31

Because science can explain why they happened

Question 32

God of the gaps

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Anthony flew

Answer 33

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

Question 34

What is a revelation

Answer 34

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

Question 35

What divisions to theologians divide revelations into

Answer 35

Special and general

Question 36

What is a special revelation

Answer 36

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

Question 37

What is a general revelation

Answer 37

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

Question 38

What do fundamentalist Christians take seriously

Answer 38

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

Question 39

How would liberal Christians interpret the laws of the Bible

Answer 39

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

Question 40

How would atheist humanists interpret the bible

Answer 40

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

Question 41

How do atheists criticise the bible

Answer 41

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

Question 42

How do Christians read the bible

Answer 42

Selectively which makes their views hypocritical

Question 43

Why is scripture important for Buddhists

Answer 43

It points to the truth so people can find enlightenment

Question 44

Why is nature not always a good way to recognise god

Answer 44

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

Question 45

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

Answer 45

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

Question 46

What is a vision

Answer 46

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

Question 47

Saint Paul’s vision

Answer 47

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

Question 48

What was created after a vision in Mahayana Buddhism

Answer 48

Tibetan book of the dead

Question 49

What do Buddhists practise to evoke a vision or a bodhisattva

Answer 49

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

Question 50

What do atheists think cause visions

Answer 50

Stress, mental illness, drugs

Question 51

Why might people say they had a vision

Answer 51

Go get peoples attention

Question 52

Example of a miracle which defies nature

Answer 52

Jesus healing the blind

Question 53

Example of an amazing coincidence

Answer 53

Surviving an esarthquake

Question 54

How are coincidences made extreme

Answer 54

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

Question 55

How do scientists explain miracles

Answer 55

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