Origins And Meaning Flashcards

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Who was at Augustine ?

List some saint Augustine quotes

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Is a theist who believes god created the universe he wrote the book confessions

“Born of yours own substance
Created this out of nothing”
“There was nothing from which you “could make heaven and earth ”

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Who is father gorges lamitre ?

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Catholic priest who put forward the Big Bang

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A short summary of the Big Bang

What does Steven hawking argue due to it ?

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Universe the result of an explosion that was chased by atoms and particles
Steven hawking That’s because the big bang happened approved there is no need for God is this we can explain the origins of the universe without God

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Who is Richard Richard Dawkins?

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Modern supporter of evolution evolution disprove the belief of God and belief that humans have souls if you give me just surviving machines to pass genes

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Who is Charles drawing?

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He proposed a theory of evolution organises change and develop into a new species survival of the fittest what is examples of how animals survive and adapt or die out climate change global warming animals die and faster DNA also show similarities between species
Pope John Paul argues that religion and evolution goes hand

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What happens in genesis 1?

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Genesis one is an outline of the days of creation transcendent God above and beyond everything he say happens powerfull omnipotent

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What happens in genesis 2?

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The Earth is already made how God made Adam and Eve was made mention of garden of Eden
omnibenelovent -he made eve for Adam
Dominion Adam has all the earth he is a steward

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Who was at at Catherine of sienna?

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Imago dei Made in the image of God sing Catherine believes human beings are like mirrors of God
origin do she believe all humans come from God and the same way a child comes from parents
destiny and sanctity of life More than just respect in this life that’s the destiny of all human is to be with God imago dei mean is it true she believes God make everyone out of love that you have been made and dignity and in imago dei shows how much you he loves us for love indeed you created her

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one feature in the tree of life mosaic is the tree of life describe it

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lush green vines that winds all around the mosaic which is the symbol of jesus who said ‘iam the vine’ at the bas stands a tree symbol of the tree of knoledge in genesis.

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describe the chiro

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the early christian symbol(alpha and omega )first and last letter of the greek alphabet

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describe the doves

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symbol of peace ,sign of the holy spirit filling the earth on the pentacost

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describe the 13 lamb

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represent the disciples,central lamb jesus (halo,was see as the sacrifcial lamb)

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what is the catholic social teaching

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the cat church promotes the idea of common good , meens seeking the conditions in society that promotes the the fufilment of all people , one way is by cafod cats believe in human dignit all humans imago dei the importance of lovings ones neighbor

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who is cafod

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promotes dignity by helping does in need ,promotes long term development of , educate people on the need of development and howw cafod can help ,work for social justice challenging unfairness and ending poverty

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describe the christian belief about the bible ?

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the bible is inspired word of god , god made use of people who wrote in human language ,they belive god inspired the bible but is not completly accurate , we have to read it to reavel what god is saying eg creation story symbolic of how god the world

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what are some catholics beliefs about the bible?

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  • inspired by god
  • bible contains revelation from god-the books of the bible are the word of god-not to be taken literal but symbolically
  • no probs accepting science
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what are some fundamentalist beliefs about the bible?

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  • believe the bible accounts should be taken literaly
  • have literal understanding of how the universe was made
  • universe created as described as in genesis
  • reject science eg bb and evo people that contradict dont fully understand the truth
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why do cafod do what they do?

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cuase the bible teaches love your neighbour, the golden rule ,jesus didnt discriminate ,stewardship ,good samaritan, all humans are part of gods creation the parable of shhep and goat

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what are catholic view on abortian why is it a debate?

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-debate beavuse when does life beigin? catholics ay contraception others say not
.pro-lifers
‘before i formed u in the womb i knew u’
-do not kill
-life beiging in the moment of contraception
no one can interfere with the life of the unborn child
-encorage adoption

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what are other chris’ views on abortion?

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  • it may at times be the lesser of two evils and the most loving thing to do
  • ‘love thy neigbour most loving thing to do if she was raped
  • share sanctity of llife view but recognise that people might have difreent views on abor
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what are humanist views?

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  • value happiness of the mother and personal choice
  • quality of life would be seen as more import perserving life at all cost sanctity of life
  • the rights of the woman should out weigh the rights of feoutus
  • should be made consediring concequences
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who is peter singer what does he believe?

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athiest -if a person has no ability to relate to others or expirience ,then thier life has limited value (fuetus )

embroys and new babies are example of biological but non humans

even though human life has value it does not mean all have equal value

there fore more acceptable to take thier live if it will bring less suffering and gretar happines utilatarinisim

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what does peter singer say about speciesm?

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to say humans are better than animals is discriminatiojn

animal are important to the enviroment bees thereathend globally due to climate change provide food we eat

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what is stewardship ?, why are chris’ steward?

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Importance of preserving the planet for future generations
In both Genesis story humans are the most important part of creation
God made humans superior to the rest of creation by giving them free well
this is why God made humans stewards need to work to protect the planet cutting down on pollution and caring for animals

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what are humunist attitudes to stewardship?

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Human life randomly came through evolution no creator needed no creator
Humans can use reasoning to To make ethical decisions makes humans superior to animals

humans can give life meaning by seeking happiness

we need to be stewards of the world by our concern not because we are commanded by God

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what is interfaith dialouge ?

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Catholic belief is that we should always treat others with respect love their neighbour no matter thier believe they believe working alongside each other and respecting each other we are showing the same to God in my (imago dei) interfaith dialogue refers to positive interactions between people of other religions

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What is laudatto si?

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(common home )address to everyone asking Pope John Paul II Dominon granted by God is not absolute power catholics believe they should contribute to our society, common good

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What is original sin ?

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As a result of Adam and Eve sin each human each human is born with a tendency to do bad things and disobey God this is called original sin original sin is washed away at baptism God created humans free will is up to us to choose whether we perform evil deeds or not just as it was up to Adam and Eve whether to give in to temptation

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The fall why does it affect us

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Adam and Eve represent all humans and by eating the fruit they committed sin and went against god
This affects us because it represents all of us going against god
As a result Adam and Eve sin each human is born with a tendency to do bad things this is called sin ,sin is washed at baptism

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What did I st Augustine say about god and the world he created ?

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God is perfect God created the world and everything in it God therefore made a perfect world was good so he didn’t create evil

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What did st Augustine say evil was then?

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Evil is therefore not a substance or a thing in itself privation or absence of good this means god did not create evil

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Where does evil come from then?

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God gave humans free will Aand e disobey God through their disobedience they created the absence of good because of that all humans are born with original sin

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How does god shows he loves us?

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He suhows he loves us because he allow Jesus to sacrifice for human sins

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What is an example of moral 👿 ?

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The murder of James bugler

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What is natural evil?

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has been caused by nature or anything other than human

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What is moral evil?

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The evil that has been created by humans using their free will to make bad choices such as bullying and murder

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What does st Augustine argue in his book echoridion

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Saint Augustine argued that God created a perfect world angels and human beings use their free will to turn their back on guard came about as a result of this brought to his creation moral evil is a result of a and e disobedience
1-Evil allows humans to appreciate what is good also describe evil privation
2-Evil is not a thing he doesn’t exist on his own he does the absence of good this means that God created has not created or cuased it
3-Evil makes you betterperson God is no one humans experience evil and suffering suffering car alarm for people to grow and develop good things come from it

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What is omnipresent?
Omnibenelovent?
Omniscient
Omnipotent

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All seeing
All loving
All knowing
All powerful

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Response to natural evil Richard Dawkins

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Evolutionary biologist ‘Some people are gonna get hurt some people are gonna get lucky there’s no reason Or justice’

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What is Steven fry response to evil?

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Humanist believe believe God is not omnibolevent if he was would make a world where kids could get get bone cancer and insect could eat children eyes

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What does atheist believe bout god?

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Doesn’t exist suffering in the world proves that there is a problem of evil if also think that the existence of evil proves that if God exists and is all of the three things that he would be an evil God

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What is a summary of jobs story?

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Job was a good man who lost his family house and boils grown on his skin
Teaches suffering happens to everyone
Even do he good he still suffers there was no reason or punishment teaches god is omnicenst humans shouldn’t question him won’t understand

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Explain why suffering is a punishment for sin?

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Satan disobeyed god and was thrown out of heaven the serpent tempted Eve Satan job also tempted job
As well as a power for good there is also power in evil
In the New Testament Jesus drove out demons

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Explain sharing the suffering of Jesus

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Jesus died on the cross thanks to him relationship between god and humanity restored (atonement) cuase his sacrifice humans forgiven by god
Celebrated when given the Eucharist Christians reminded themselves

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Explain John hick arguments?

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God never made world that wasn’t perfect Natural and moral evil improve peoples souls by encouraging them to overcome adversity and become better people he call this soul making
Exercise is painful and difficult but much stronger healthy body same way evil soul build

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Explain William antons argument?

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We cannot fully understand god ,(transcendent) problem of evil is beyond human comprehension

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Describe God goodness in his creation

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Story genesis ‘god saw what he made and it was good’repeated several different creation days God is a good creator who has created everything ex nihilo out of love for human beings

Cathesism’ the Beauty of the creation is reflected the infinite birth of the creator’

Although humans sin we still see signs of good in people if humans generosity the god the creator in whose image humans is made creator must be supremely good
Miracles answers prayer =god good
Gave his son Jesus so we can archive enternal life

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Give examples of how God goodness is shown in people

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  • Gee Walker forgave killers of her son

- Oscar Romero sacrificed his life to give the poor a voice

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What does st Augustine write about in his book echiridion

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Answers to the problem of evil

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What does st Augustine say about god allowing suffering?

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Go’s is omnipotent and omnibenelovent because his goodness god is always able to bring the greater good out of suffer suffering can help us

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Why do catholics have mixed feelings about evil?

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The meaning of suffering (job story)

Suffering proof of commitment
‘Jesus said whoever want to be his disiciple must deny themselves and take their cross ‘if committed to something must suffer

Suffering as a blessing those who are at their lowest are closer to god
The suffering of Jesus Something good can come from suffering Jesus died to save humanity from sin so we may be reunited with God in heaven

Suffering as a sign of love loving someone mean sacrificing ur own comfort when we looose something or someone we suffer a a sign of the depth of love we felt for them

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Why do some not consider god omnibenelovent? David Hume

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David Hume argues that God cannot be powerful if evil exist but as evil does exist ,he argues that god is therefore he’s not omni/benevolent /potent or he doesn’t exist[inconsistentent triad]

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John mackie

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We can appreciate good without any evil argues god could have made us good to begin with we don’t need to suffer to become better people it could make people worse god should make use choose choices which don’t lead to suffering