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Nature of God Flashcards

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What is the Apostles creed?

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An early statement of Christian beliefs

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What is the Bible?

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Christian holy book

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What is the cosmological argument also known as?

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The causation argument

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What is the cosmological argument?

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A belief that the universe had a cause and this is God

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What does creation ex-nihilo mean?

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Creation from nothing

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What does creator mean?

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Someone that starts something - Christians believe that god is the creator of the world

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What does deity mean?

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God

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What does eternal mean?

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Lasts forever

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What does God mean?

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A divine supreme being

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What does Gospel mean?

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A teaching or doctrine of a religious person

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What is the Holy spirit?

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The element of God that is within all Christians

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What is immanence?

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The idea that God is within us

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What is incarnation?

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It means “in flesh” it relates to the belief that Jesus was God “in flesh” or human form.

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What are the Laws of nature?

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A regularly occurring or apparently inevitable phenomenon observable in human society

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What is a miracle?

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A unexplainable act that breaks the law of science

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What does numinous mean?

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A feeling of being in the presence of something bigger than yourself

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What does Omni benevolence mean?

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That god is all loving

18
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What does omnipotence mean?

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God is all powerful

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What does omnipresence mean?

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All around/everywhere

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What does omniscience mean?

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All knowing

21
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What is the ontological argument?

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The argument for the existence of God in where if you believe God exists, then He must exist being you can think it

22
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What is a paraclete?

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The holy spirit

23
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What is the Pentecost?

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The seventh Sunday after Easter, commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the disciples. Also called Whitsunday

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What is a prayer?

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Communication with God usually through words

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What does it mean to repent?

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To be truly sorry for what you have done

26
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What is resurrection?

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“rising again” the belief attributed to Jesus as he died and came back to life

27
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What is the supernatural?

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Some force beyond scientific understanding or the laws of nature

28
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What is the teleological argument also known as?

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The design argument

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What is the teleological argument?

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The argument for the existence of God that states the world is too complex to be an accident therefore it must be designed - Paley’s watch

30
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What is transcendence?

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The belief that God is above us all. (more important)

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What is the trinity?

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The belief that God is 3 in 1 (father, son, holy spirit)

32
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What are the 4 things that describe God?

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The omni-s
eternal
transcendent
immanent

33
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What does immanent mean?

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The idea that god is within us

34
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What does deity mean?

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God

35
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Describe Jesus

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He is personal, the human part of the trinity, he understood suffering, he was selfless

36
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Describe the holy spirit

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Non-physical, within everybody

37
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What are the four types of miracles?

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Healing
Exorcism
Nature
Raising the dead

38
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Give four examples of miracles

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Healing a blind person
Turning water into wine
Curing someone of a life threatening disease
Walking on water

39
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What was the greatest miracle?

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When Jesus rose from the dead

40
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What are the two ideas for the reason for the Earth being created and therefore the existence of God?

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The teleological argument

The cosmological argument

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