Knowledge of God (NT: innate sense of divine/ seen in creation) Flashcards
what does an innate sense fo divine mean?
throughout history and time people have had a belief in an infinite being
what does the bible suggest about an innate sense of divine? quote and explain?
“breaths into Adam with his own breath”- suggesting might be sparks of divinity in each human life, something that is designed to seek and respond to God
how does us being made in the image of god suggest an innate sense of divine?
we are made in such a way that we can appreciate and understand beauty and goodness, in world and recognise them as manifestations of gods creativity
who is John Calvin and what does he suggest?
16th cent Protestant, and claimed we have ‘sensus divinities’= innate sense of God
John Calvin quote?
“there is within human kind, and indeed by natural instinct an awareness of divinity”
for Calvin who has ‘sensus divinitas’ and what does that mean?
anyone who can reflect on the natural world, it’s beauty and order should be able to understand without difficultly the existence/ character of god and therefore people have no excuse if they fail to worship god and dictate their lives to his service
For Calvin what is the created world in accordance to God?
a ‘mirror’ for god who sometimes increases human capacity for awareness of his presence
for Calvin where does lack of clarity of god come from?
human sin, which clouds peoples understanding of god and prevents us from having a full awareness of his nature and purposes
how does the epistemic distance suggest and innate sense of divine?
god is deliberately making himself obscure to preserve free will, calvin suggest this is created by humans and its impossible for us to ignore him
what is the aesthetic argument?
an argument that we appraise beauty and goodness which suggests we have innate sense of divine
how does having an innate sense of morality suggest that we have innate sense of God?
knowing what is √/x, Butler, Newman, C.S.Lewis suggest that we all have feelings of guilt when we do something wrong= conscience= gift from god
