Parasite and a Loving God Flashcards
Describe the relationship between a butterfly and a caterpillar.
-butterflies eat milkweed to make themselves toxic
- However caterpillar eats milkweed, and use the toxin for their own
-uses it for 2 purposes
- protects itself
- pheromone that is attractive to females
- the more you have, the more you are able to mate
- The butterfly attacks the caterpillar for the milkweed toxin
- has metallic claws that scratch the caterpillars until wounds are open so they can drin
Why is nature so beautiful?
- one has to essentially like nature to believe that it has design
- religious proof that backs up this idea
- God had designed nature so individuals can know Him and come to find and believe in him
- he just designed nature to be beautiful for humans
Who is the creator?
- the creator, essentially has to be someone who is bigger than our own being.
- might not be good, might not be bad, might not be competent
Why does mortality occur?
- mortality essentially occurs because God has written it on our hearts which reflects him as a creator , but appears universally different in ones culture
- rules that the creator wants us to live by
Why doe the apostles suffer and die for their faith?
- The apostles knew the truth of their faith and died because of the witness of their faith
- they were so convincing that they convinced others a created a chain only by their eyewitness accounts
- they died for the truth that they know
- one would not die for ‘truth’ that was essentially untrue
What is distinctive about christianity?
- The Christian god is a trinity: the trinity essentially is 3 in 1 (God is God the Father, God the Son, & God the Holy spirit)
- A god that says he is love, but also doctrinally love: eternally loving
- became man through this love
- The Trinity and Incarnation are what makes Christianity unique
What kind of world would the trinity create?
- a world that reflects/reveals Him
- a world full of relationships
What is an example of the world the trinity would create?
- Caterpillars( hairstreak butterflies) and ants
- mutual beneficial relationship
- caterpillars lay eyes that hatch and call out to ants while also releasing a pheromone
- caterpillar’s head has a ring of organs that when they draw in, it rubs agains the dermal pits making a sound
- ants drag the caterpillar home to protect them
- caterpillar has glands on its body that secrets a sweet sugary substance that the ants will eat
- self-sacrificial, both benefit but both also pay something
What is Trinitarian ecology?
- Nature should reflect the character and purposes of its Creator
- The Trinity is diversity in harmony
- Diversity and harmony are intrinsic goods (because they reflect the good of the Trinity)
- should be reflected within nature
Does nature have intrinsic value?
Nature does have intrinsic value because it was created by God and He said it was good, therefore we should study creatures to also know about them
Does nature have instrumental value?
yes, Nature exists as a persistent testimony to the Creator
Why do parasite exist?
- result of fundamental of two laws: harmony and autonomy
- they go hand in hand
What is the character of the creator?
- God is love
- he says that friends lay down his life and then proceeds to demonstrate that
- self-sacrifice
Hw can someone share in god’s love?
- They must be good
- they must be free
What kind of world did god create?
- a perfect being cannot create another perfect being or an immoral being
- a perfect moral being could create an a-moral being with free will
- that a-moral being could then become moral or immoral
- if moral, that being cant be united with god
- fixed through the incarnation
- if immoral, that being cannot be united with god
- God created a world that was good for human soul-making
