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Fall Midterm Flashcards

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Understands God to be omnipotent, omnibenevolent, and Omniscient

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How Christians understand God

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An omnipotent, omnipotent, and omniscient god exists

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Step 1 of Epircurus’ Problem of Evil

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An omnibenevolent God ought to eliminate all evil

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Step 2 of Epircurus’ Problem of Evil

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An omnipotent God can eliminate all evil

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Step 3 of Epircurus’ Problem of Evil

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An omniscient God knows how to eliminate all evil

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Step 4 of Empircurus’ Problem of Evil

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But evil does not exist

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Step 5 of Empircurus’ Problem of Evil

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  1. Evil does not really exist. god does do things in mysterious ways so maybe evil exist and things just appear evil to us
  2. Evil exists and God is omnibenevolent, omnipotent, and omniscient. BUT God has a legit reason for allowing evil… soul making
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Solution to Empircurus’ Problem of Evil

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What a person wishes for themselves might not be what others want for themselves

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1st Puzzle of the Golden Rule

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People may treat each other in mutually agreeable ways that are nonetheless immoral

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2nd Puzzle of the Golden Rule

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Why should we be moral at all? If we act for happiness, what if there is no gurantee that being moral makes you happy?

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3rd Puzzle of the Golden Rule

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There must be a guarantee that happiness is awarded in relation to the amount of goodness you put into the world. That might not be on earth, but in the afterlife

You must believe in Jesus as the savior to have a connection with him and God who ultimately dictate whether you are sent to heaven or hell. This potential guarantee of eternal happiness in the afterlife is the reason why we act morally

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Solution to the Puzzles of the Golden Rule

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12
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A violation of the laws of nature that are preformed by Christ or prophets

According to Christianity
A. strictly a violation of the laws of nature by one of God’s reps and it establishes trust in the religion

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What is a miracle?

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logical contradictions or impossibilites. They make no sense. If no laws of nature are present then no miracles actually exist because they are defined by laws of nature

to make testimony of a true miracle, the number of miracles observed by people must be greater or equal to the number of scientific regularities

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What is a miracle according to Humme?

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14
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Disobeying God’s command is wrong
Wrongness is a moral distinction which Adam and Eve could not make before eating from the fruit tree of knowledge of good and evil

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One puzzle generated by the Fall

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15
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Is something good simply because God wills it
Pro: God’s freedom is absolute
Con: God’s moral authority would be based on brute and arbitrary power, God can change moral truths

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Mu’tazaili Question Pt 1

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Does God will something because it is good?
Pro: the standard of morality is unchangeable and free of God’s will
Con: something exists that is more powerful than God, so why not worship that?

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Mu’tazili Question Pt 2

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God first created the universe, the divine creative force was made into 10 spheres
Those spheres broke, scattering the divine sparks throughout the universe
If we attune ourselves to the sparks of the divine, we can cross the borders between Heaven and earth and see God like Ezekiel

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Kabbalah: the Sephirot

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Believe that Christ’s body was an illusion
He gave his followers a special wisdom about the divine war of good and evil
matter=evil
spirit of immaterial=good

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Gnostic: Heresy

19
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Inspired by Muhammad’s journey to heaven
Undertake a journey to bask in God’s presence that leads to the inner of our souls
We can reverse the Fall by reversing the journey through recollecting God so we completely forget ourselves
Whirling Dervishes

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Sufi: Mysticism

20
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One ceremonially anointed with oil before becoming a priest or king
A future earthly prince
Heavenly redeemer sent by God to deliver us from evil and oversee the Day of Judgement

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Judaic Meanings of Messiah

21
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-no insects
-no meat and dairy together
-no land animals that prey on other animals
-no animals without split hooves and that don’t chew cud
-no animals that died a natural death or diseased or injured
-no animals that were killed inhumanely and were not completely drained of blood
-seafood cannot have scales and fins

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Kosher requirements

22
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to produce something that is the same kind of thing that you are

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Beget

23
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to produce something that is different from you

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Make

24
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that Jesus really is the bread and wine
the mysterious change from body to bread and from blood to wine

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Transubstantiation

25
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the bread and wine are both what they are and the blood and body of christ lived in one vessel

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Consubstantiation

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practices extreme ascenticism to have lived experience of death and grow closer to God
seek near death experiences through starvation and stuff

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Cenobites and ascenticism

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practices extreme ascenticism to have lived experience of death and grow closer to God
seek near death experiences through starvation and stuff

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Cenobites and ascenticism

28
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the move to Medina in 622 CE

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Hijra

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Pilgrimage to Mecca

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Hajj

30
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-holy Islamic text
-what Muhammad recited 23 years after Gabriel
-means “recitation”
-written and recited in arabic

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Qur’an

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chronicles of Muhammad’s life and behavior which people provide a role model for Muslim ethical thought and action

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Hadith

32
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Muhammad’s living examples of the moral life

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Sunnah

33
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believed that Jesus is a combination of two different Jesus: human and divine

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Nestorians

34
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Jesus is only divine

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Monophysites

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