Nature Of God Flashcards
The trinity
3 aspects
Christians are monotheists
Gods nature difficult to understand because of all loving and all powerful
God the farther
“All things were made through him”
God has a relationship with his creation like a farther he rewards and punished and had a love relationship
But God is male
Against miracles
Scientific explanation- illness been diagnosed wrong which will make them better
Only small amounts of miracles?
God the son
“and the word become flesh and dwelt amount us”
Jesus is God incarnated
Example of God
Guidance
Jesus sent as a sacrafise- died to save Gods creation from sin
God the holly spirt
“Do you not know that you are Gods temple and that Gods spirit feels in you?”
Aspect of God that works through the lives of Christains
6 different ways;
- helps to live as Christains
- strengths faith
- gives them corrage
- right and wrong
- joins them with other Christains
- gives them spiritual gifts
Miracles
- an event brought by God that breaks the laws of nature
- Jesus announced “be clean” and the man in medley was cleaned of leprasy
- Jesus coming back from the dead
The design argument FOR
-world is filled with patterns and order which can only be designed by God
“The heavens declare the glory of God, the skies proclaim the work of his hand”
The design argument AGAINST
Bad design
- if Gods perfect why would hennaed an imperfect world
The cosmological argument (Cause argument)
- whatever begins to exist has a cause nothing can just appear
Eg Big Bang God created it
Disagree with Christianly
Jewish- “the son” is disrespectful because only one God and can’t be human
Lack of evidence
Response- evidence in faith
God through Jesus
Jesus spoke about Gods kingdom
Shows Gods love and power through miracles
Gave promsie of eternal life
Science can give the answers
Scientific evidence
Gods invented to make them self feel better
Omnipresent
God is everywhere and can’t hide from him
Omnipotent
All powerful
Omniscient
All knowing
