RE- Philosophy

Question 1

What is the belief that there is a God?

Answer 1

Theism

Question 2

What is the belief that there is no God?

Answer 2

Atheism

Question 3

What do you call a person that isn’t sure if God does or doesn’t exist?

Answer 3

Agnosticism

Question 4

What does omnipotent mean?

Answer 4

All-powerful

Question 5

What does omniscient mean?

Answer 5

All-knowing

Question 6

What does omni- benevolent mean?

Answer 6

All-loving

Question 7

What did Michael Behe say about the argument of design?

Answer 7

To imagine you’re walking with a friend in the forest and suddenly she’s hanging on a rope upside down on her ankle from a tree. The trap was obviously designed, so sometimes we don’t need to see a designer to believe that it was designed.

Question 8

What did William Paley say about the argument of design?

Answer 8

Paley’s watch- If you found a watch on the beach, you would think that someone left it there. The watch has hundreds of elements all working together to make it work. Paley said you would conclude that the watch had been designed by somebody and left there. To Paley the universe was like a giant watch. He said it makes sense that there is a universe designer.

Question 9

Quote from Sir Fred Hoyle about the argument of design?

Answer 9

“The chances that life just occurred are about as unlikely as a typhoon blowing through a junkyard and constructing a Boeing-747.”

Question 10

Atheist arguments to God not existing?

Answer 10

• Not logical because there is no physical evidence
• Psychologists believe God is a fantasy to help us deal with death
• Sigmund Freud believed that ‘God’ is something created in the mind to people find purpose to their lives
• Evolution
• Evil and suffering
• God would need a designer too

Question 11

What is the Inconsistent Triad?

Answer 11

The argument that an all loving and all-powerful God cannot exist if suffering does.

Question 12

Theist arguments to God existing?

Answer 12

• Suffering is a test or part of God’s plan- ‘My ways are not your ways’ Isaiah 5
• Through suffering we become more God-like. ‘Take up your cross and follow me’ Luke 9: 23
• We would never truly understand love or value another person unless we could experience pain or loss.

Question 13

“Ex nihilo nihil fit”

Answer 13

Nothing comes from nothing

Question 14

4 examples of religious experiences?

Answer 14

• Annunciation
• Burning Bush
• John Pridmore (drug- dealer)
• Jesus walks on water

Question 15

Transcendent

Answer 15

The belief that God exists beyond time and space.

Question 16

Theodicy

Answer 16

An argument which defends the existence of God

Question 17

Philosophy

Answer 17

A word with Greek origins meaning ‘friend of wisdom’.