Keywords- Believing In God (RE)

Question 1

What is a Miracle?

Answer 1

Something which seems to break the laws of science and is explainable by God

Question 2

What is Numinous?

Answer 2

A feeling of God presence, something greater than yourself

Question 3

What is a prayer?

Answer 3

Communicating with God and a feeling of being listened to

Question 4

What is agnosticism?

Answer 4

Not sure whether God exists

Question 5

What is Atheism

Answer 5

Believing that God doesn’t exist

Question 6

What does Theism mean?

Answer 6

Believing that God does exist

Question 7

What is Free will

Answer 7

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

Question 8

What is Moral Evil

Answer 8

Actions done by humans which chases suffering

Question 9

What is Natural Evil

Answer 9

Things which aide suffering but having nothing to do with humans

Question 10

What is Benevolent?

Answer 10

God is ALL LOVING

Question 11

What is Omniscient?

Answer 11

God is ALL KNOWING

Question 12

What is Omnipotent?

Answer 12

God is ALL POWERFUL

Question 13

What is Omnipresent?

Answer 13

God is EVERYWHERE, all knowing

Question 14

What is Conversion?

Answer 14

An experience that makes you change your life and belief in God

Question 15

Religious upbringing:

Answer 15

Christening

Taught to pray

Taught to worship

Sudan school

Church school

Encouraged or choose to be confirmed

Question 16

How religious upbringing may lead to the belief in God:

Answer 16

Young children believe what their parents think

God listens to their prayers

Seeing people worshipping in church could convince children to believe in God

Question 17

Religious experience : the numinous

Answer 17

A feeling of God present

Could happen in religious building, beautiful place, looking up at the stars on a clear night, when people are gilled with an awareness of something greater than them

Question 18

Religious experience: conversion

Answer 18

Experience of God

Regenerative experience

Question 19

Religious experience: miracle

Answer 19

An event which is unexplainable by science

Question 20

Religious experience : prayer

Answer 20

Communicating with God

Question 21

Unanswered prayers and how Christians respond to it

Answer 21

Not feeling God presence
Prayers not being answered

God will not answer selfish prayers
Different plans/reasons that we don’t know/ understand
Only give what people need not want
Cannot answers prayers which conflict

Question 22

The Argument from Design:

Answer 22

Design involves things working together according to plan to produce something that was intended

Evidence:
Law of science - gravity, electricity, motion 
DNA
Evolution
The beauty of nature

Question 23

The design argument lead to belief in God because:

Answer 23

Anything which has been designed needs a designer

Evidence that the has been designed

Only possible designer is God

Therefore God mist exist

Question 24

Appearance of design may not lead to belief in God:

Answer 24

Ignores the lack of design in the universe

Evidence for design can be explained by science

Doesn’t refer the existences of dinosaurs

Only proves that the universe needed a designer

Question 25

The Argument from Causation:

Answer 25

Cause and effect

Question 26

Causation leads to belief in God:

Answer 26

Anything that happens or exist needs a cause

Any chain of cause and effect must have a beginning

Only first possible cause of the universe is God

Question 27

Causation may not lead to the belief in God:

Answer 27

If everything needs cause, what caused God?

Mather and energy don’t end

Nothing proves the first cause is the God we refer to

Question 28

The Big Bang :

Answer 28

Matter is eternal
15 billion years ago all the matter in the universe became compressed and produced a huge explosion
Gravity cause the formation of the planets and stars
Evidence is red shift

Question 29

Evolution:

Answer 29

The combinations of gases produced life forms
Genetic structures
Changes which allowed a life form to survive
Over millions of years new life formed
Evidence is fossil fuels and shared DNA

Question 30

Christian responses to scientific explanations: are true and prove God created the world

Answer 30

The Big Bang had to be exactly right

Only God can have made the laws
Life on earth could not have happens by chance

Question 31

Christian responses to scientific explanations: is wrong and bible is right

Answer 31

CREATIONISM

Evidence of the Big Bang and evolution ca be explained by Noah’s flood and the apparent age theory
Apparent age theory states that the earth was created to look billions of years old

Question 32

Christian response to scientific explanations: they are both right

Answer 32

One of gods days could be billions of years

God creates in Genesis (plants, trees, fish, birds, animals and humans) in the same order as the theory of evolution

Question 33

Evil and suffering: what’s the two types

Answer 33

Moral evil and natural evil

Question 34

Evil and suffering causes people not believe in God

Answer 34

A benevolent God wouldnt created a world with evil and suffering

An omnipotent God would be able to stop it

An omniscient God would know how to create a work without it

An omnipresent God would be aware of all the evil and suffering in the world

Question 35

Christians response to evil and suffering:

Answer 35

God wants to help those who suffer
- be doctors, nurses, social workers

Evil and suffering isn’t gods fault

Evil and suffering are apart of gods plan
- preparation for paradise, facing evil and suffering improves people’s soul

God has reason people can’t understand for not intervening in evil and suffering