Natural Theology As Arising From An Innate Human Sense Of The Divine Flashcards
Some thinkers argue a sense of the divine’s an intrinsic part of human nature ? notes that in all cultures and times, people have had a sense that there’s an infinite being.
Cicero.
The Bible supports the idea that people are born with a sense of God. In Genesis, God makes people in his own image and breathes into Adam with his own breath, suggesting a “?” of divinity in each human life.
Spark.
John Calvin claimed we have a “? ?” (“seed of divinity”), universal for all humans, saying people have no excuse if they fail to worship God, “there’s within the human mind…an awareness of ?”.
Sensus divinitas.
Divinity.
Calvin writes that knowledge of God can be gained by anyone “even the most ? and ? people”, arguing the created world’s a “?” for God, who increases human capacity for awareness of his presence.
Unlearned.
Ignorant.
Mirror.
Other writers mention “? ?” between people and God, deliberately being obscure to people to preserve free will, allowing them to choose a relationship. For Calvin, this is created by ?
Epistemic distance.
Humans.
Made “in the ? of God” has led supporters to appreciate and understand beauty and goodness in the world, arguing we have an innate ? of morality, using our reason.
Image.
Sense.
Joseph Butler, John Henry ? and C.S. ? argued this “? ?” of conscience’s evident of God’s existence and God who makes moral demands of his people, wanting them to follow his ?
Newman.
Lewis.
Inner voice.
Commandments.
