Number 1 Flashcards
This argument that there is a God is based upon the Law of Cause and Effect
Cosmological Argument
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 - ______
God - Cosmological Argument
Just as the existence of a watch logically demands the existence of a watchmaker, the existence of Creation demands the existence of a ___________
Creator - Cosmological Argument
The _____or Teleological Argument is the existence of Design implies a _________. The Intelligent design, purpose, an order of the universe indicates an intelligent Designer.
Design- Designer
The Design or Teleological Argument
What is the argument regarding the concept of God in relation to man’s finite mind?
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.
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.
The Argument from Consciousness or Mind
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.
The Argument from Consciousness, or Mind
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.
The argument for man’s Conscience and Moral nature
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
The ontological argument
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
Ontological argument
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).
Ontological argument
Man could not, and would not, have ever imagined the infinite, Holy, just, and loving God of the Bible
Ontological argument
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
The Innate Knowledge or Universal Belief Argument
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.
The innate knowledge or universal belief argument
This is because God has placed the knowledge of his existence “in them” Romans 1:19
The Innate knowledge or universal belief argument