existence of god

Question 1

unitarian beliefs

Answer 1

god is one being and there is no trinkity, jesus is not gods son

Question 2

jehovas witnsess beliefs

Answer 2

god is one being, no trinity

Question 3

‘and from the son’ significnce

Answer 3

written in the nicene creed, it says the spirit has come from jesus which highlights the trinties power

Question 4

othodox beliefs on the spirit

Answer 4

spirit comes from god the father whos above everything

Question 5

what genesis one tells us about god

Answer 5

he transcends time but is also personal and just in his creation of the earth

Question 6

genesis one tells us about god and humans

Answer 6

we are described as beig created in the image of god and as being “very good”which means that we are jut beings who are tasked with stewardship over gods creatures

Question 7

gods showing of his character through jesus

Answer 7

hes humble to lesse his being to a flesh incarnate human
hes benevolent as he wants to sacrifice his only son and also will forgive and help humans achieve salvation after their own sins
he exqually shows his omipotence by jesues ability to control nature and perform miracles

Question 8

gods showing through prayer and sacremets

Answer 8

debated wether we need a higher priest in order to act as a mediatorto god, but god is preset in our prayers and confessions
catholics believe in the Eucharist, god is ther physically whilst others see it as spiritual, that god is with us when we perform sacrements

Question 9

catholic beliefs about gods presece in prayer

Answer 9

we need a mediator with higher religious knowlege in order to make contact with god
god is physically there in the bread and wine

Question 10

three ways gods goodness is revealed

Answer 10

creation, hes made us a good world
law, hes set up the morals for us to abide to
salvatiom, sacrifice of his only child to atoe for our sins

Question 11

ways god is bad

Answer 11

noahs flood and his rage in genesis two show imperfections
he lets his good creatures sin and his moral creatures face suffering
natural order is injust and cruel- john sturat mill

Question 12

john stuart mill

Answer 12

natural order is injust and gods making of it shows he is cruel

Question 13

augustinian theodicy

Answer 13

we face evil due to the choices we make with our free will

Question 14

arguement against augustinian

Answer 14

some very just people face suffering
why would god creae his beings in his own model who are sinning such as adam and eve

Question 15

irenian theodicy

Answer 15

we need to edure suffeirng in order to understand what is good

Question 16

opposition to irenian thoedicy

Answer 16

some suffering has no lesson from it
god should forgive and preach benevolence
people suffer who work to pleasr god

Question 17

other thoedicies

Answer 17

evil is a test of faith
evil is a punishment for sin
comes from the fall so free will

Question 18

book of job for problem of evil

Answer 18

we cannot understand the motivations of god but our faith will later be rewarded

Question 19

cosmological/ first cause argument

Answer 19

everything has to have a cause but something has to be the beginning as even the universe must be caused, therefore the cause has to be god
- developed by Thomas Aquinas

Question 20

opposition to the first cause arguement

Answer 20

why cant the universe be eternal if god can
why does god not have a cause if everything does
The Big Bang was a random event
There’s no proof for religious creation stories

Question 21

moral arguement

Answer 21

-gods laws and our conscience of whats right and wrong comes from god
- John Newman

Question 22

anthropic principle

Answer 22

-the earth is perfectly designed to allow us to live
-genesis 1 shows us how god creates the world in his desig and image

Question 23

teleological/ design arguement

Answer 23

earth is so deeply complex and successful that it has to be by design

Question 24

opositio to design arguement

Answer 24

• john stuart mill says natural order is injust and cruel
• the universe is to support life, the idea of design is an illusion
• design is a matter of chance because of natural selection

Question 25

soul making as a response to the POE

Answer 25

its through the tribulations of suffering that we are strengthened and brought closer to god, like job we will be rewarded

Question 26

reasons for an ethical life

Answer 26

god preaches benevolence and equality and agape through the good samaritan

Question 27

ways to live an ethetical life

Answer 27

donate to charities and help christian ones eg cafod and chritsian aid
recyle and aid the enviroment
help christian causes and injustices

Question 28

Betsy fry

Answer 28

chrsitian who worked for prison reform as she felt it went against gods teachings of agape

Question 29

three ways to take the bible

Answer 29

Symbolic
literal
conservative- not everything is gods voice but it’s by humans in his image

Question 30

ways god is shown through miracles

Answer 30

shows his omnipotence
helps others so teaches agape eg freeing the plauge of leprosy and helpig the blid
defies the powers of nature and death as jessus walks on water and halts the wind

Question 31

ways god is shown in the world

Answer 31

communtiies such as taize monks and corrymeela
euchamamical churches
commuity aid such as cafod and chrsitian aid

Question 32

god shown through scripture

Answer 32

literalists such as the amish live their life as the bible tells them to to the exact
god has revealed his teaching regardless of how literally to the people through the bible
some choose to adapt the morals to the modern age

Question 33

mother theresa

Answer 33

set up charitiews to aid those in india

Question 34

james hudso taylor

Answer 34

overwhelmed by horror at those dying in chinese genocide with no knowlege of god, so he went with missonaries to china to spread the gospel

Question 35

pauls story of conversion

Answer 35

paul was called saul and was ungodly, he was made blind by god and when touched by the disiples he regained his sight, he went on to spread the gospel

Question 36

mystical

Answer 36

awe due to the overwhleming trascnedant prescence of god

Question 37

Theresa of avila

Answer 37

girl who constantly had visions and mystical prescnece that meant she could undertsnad the severity of sinning

Question 38

extasy in prayer

Answer 38

a sense of overwhelm in the presece of god that means you enter a trance state

Question 39

slain in the spirit

Answer 39

when youre in the prescnece of the holy spirit and a minister touches you you may fall backwards

Question 40

example of pentecostal extatic prayer

Answer 40

when the apostles were taken over by the spirit and began to speak in tounges and became much more cofident in spreading the gospel
- 1994 Toronto blessings where large groups of people danced growled and became paralysed

Question 41

Examples of religious experiences that lead to belief in god

Answer 41

• having a miracle or a definite feeling of god eg paul
• a prayer being answered
• belief in a miracle occuring eg the 69 at Lourdes

Question 42

Reasons for the teological/ design argument

Answer 42

• laws such as gravity
• the mechanisms in a person like the eye and heart
• the complex ecosystems

Question 43

Other reasons for believing in god

Answer 43

• so many religions believe in a higher power that it must exist
• people cannot be here by chance, we just have a purpose
• feelings of awe and wonder

Question 44

Reasons people don’t belive in god

Answer 44

• John Stuart mills order of life is cruel
• prayers often go unanswered
• suffering eg. Darwin became atheist after his daughter died NOT because of evolution
• miracles pick and choose who to aid
• science

Question 45

Reasons people don’t believe in miracles

Answer 45

• you need an eyewitness and people might lie
• magicians can do deceptive things
• science can now explain many miracles
• god must be evil if he picks and chooses who to aid- leaving tragedies like the holocast and starvation

Question 46

God as personal to humanity

Answer 46

• god breathed life into adams nostrils in genesis 2:7
• god constantly cares for us- he gives us laws and cared for Adam and Eve in the garden
• god came down as incarnate to us on earth
• Holy Spirit is present in prayer (John 4:24)

Question 47

Ex nihilo

Answer 47

• means god created the world from NOTHING
• shows us nothing else existed pre god and he is the only eternal figure

Question 48

Protestant and Anglican beliefs about gods showing in prayer

Answer 48

• we do not need a mediator as jesys removed this need so now we can directly speak to god when oraying

Question 49

Ideas around good being atemporal

Answer 49

• god created time so must be outside of it
• however if he is outside of time we can’t interact with him in the phsyical world so he must be temporal

Question 50

Individuals behind anthropic principle

Answer 50

• FR tennant first used it
• John polkinghorne felt the precision needed to develop life supports it

Question 51

Opposition to moral arguement

Answer 51

• psychopaths have no sense of guilt or moral judgement