P1 - Belief About Deity Flashcards
Blasphemy
Saying false things about God
Atheism
The belief that there is no God
Conscience
Our basic understanding of what is ‘right’ and ‘wrong’
Cosmological argument
The argument that says God must have caused the universe
Eternal
Everlasting or without end. Christians believe God exists in the past, present and future
God
A supernatural or divine being
God incarnate
God in human form
Heaven
Christian idea of paradise where the soul goes after death
Incarnation
Doctrine that God took human form in Jesus
Metaphor
A symbolic way of describing something
Miracle
A special event believed to have been caused by God, which breaks the laws of nature
Monotheism
The belief that there is only one God
Moral argument
The argument that says our understanding of right and wrong must have come from God
Omnibenevolent
Perfectly good and perfectly loving
Omnipotent
All powerful