Number 1 Flashcards

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This argument that there is a God is based upon the Law of Cause and Effect

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Cosmological Argument

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If there is no God, “Where did everything come from?” The laws of science indicate that every effect must have an adequate cause. An infinite Creation demands an infinite cause, an all powerful, all knowing, uncaused, first cause, or simply put - ______

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God - Cosmological Argument

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Just as the existence of a watch logically demands the existence of a watchmaker, the existence of Creation demands the existence of a ___________

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Creator - Cosmological Argument

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The _____or Teleological Argument is the existence of Design implies a _________. The Intelligent design, purpose, an order of the universe indicates an intelligent Designer.

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Design- Designer
The Design or Teleological Argument

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What is the argument regarding the concept of God in relation to man’s finite mind?

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The Ontological Argument -
The concept of God is infinitely greater than man’s finite mind and must have been revealed by God Himself

This highlights the belief that human understanding cannot fully encompass the divine nature of God.

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Man’s mind, rationality, and self-consciousness could not arise by chance from your molecules. The immaterial cannot arise from the material. Atoms do not know that they exist. They are not self-aware.

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The Argument from Consciousness or Mind

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Man’s self-conscious, rational nature implies a self-conscious, rational source or creator, the God with eternal mind. Man’s mind, soul and spirit could only have been created by God, who is spirit, a God, with mind, emotion, rationality, self-consciousness, self-awareness, and will.

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The Argument from Consciousness, or Mind

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Though man’s conscience is often weak or ignored, and may even become seared, it nonetheless exist in all men and tells us we ought to do right. This implies a moral God who planted a moral nature within us.

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The argument for man’s Conscience and Moral nature

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This argument is especially potent in light of our natural antagonism to the moral restrictions that God‘s perfect nature places upon us. If we had imagined God, we would not have imagined the perfect God of the Bible, but one far less demanding, restrictive and hard to understand

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The ontological argument

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Skeptics often propose that it was man who created God, rather than God who created man. If man had created God from his own imagination, what kind of God would he have created? The answer is clear. Man would have created. God‘s made in man’s image or in the image of things Man can see

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Ontological argument

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This is exactly what has happened in the pagan cultures of the world. Immoral finite men would have created gods who were merely exalted men. Men would imagine immoral finite gods, such as the fickle and fleshly Greek and Roman gods. Man would have worship things he did not understand, such as animals or the sun and stars. Man would have imagine gods who justified their hatred and desire to kill their enemies, to rape their enemies wives, and to steal their enemies lands(such as Allah).

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Ontological argument

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Man could not, and would not, have ever imagined the infinite, Holy, just, and loving God of the Bible

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Ontological argument

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The fact that mankind’s innate knowledge of God‘s existence is a universal phenomena is evidence that this knowledge was placed in us by God himself

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The Innate Knowledge or Universal Belief Argument

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All of humanity has an innate knowledge of the existence of God. This is true of all civilizations and cultures, worldwide, including completely isolated tribes.

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The innate knowledge or universal belief argument

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This is because God has placed the knowledge of his existence “in them” Romans 1:19

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The Innate knowledge or universal belief argument

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If the universe and man were merely random chance, arrangements of atoms and chemicals, then no absolute morality could exist. For instance, it would be no more morally wrong to kill a baby than a mosquito larva, since both are only random Chance arrangements of chemicals. Genocide would be no more evil than mass spraying to exterminate mosquitoes.

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The argument from morality

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It is admitted by those on both sides of the debate that there is no logical basis for any absolute morals if there is no creator or God

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The argument from morality

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Therefore, we can only reject the existence of God if we are willing to reject the existence of all absolute morals. This is not only admitted by atheist, but for many, the desire for freedom from absolute morals (usually sexual prohibitions) is the very reason they have embraced atheism

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The argument from morality

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The fact that absolute morals do, and indeed must exist, implies a moral Maker, Law giver, and judge

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The argument from morality