Religious Experience- Conversions

Question 1

what is a conversion?

Answer 1

comes from the greek word to “return” or “turn again”

Question 2

what are the four different types of conversion?

Answer 2

individual

communal

gradual

sudden

Question 3

what is an individual conversion

Answer 3

a single person rather than a group

Question 4

what is a communal conversation

Answer 4

a group of people at the same occasion

Question 5

what is gradual conversion

Answer 5

a conversion taken place over a period of time

Question 6

what is a volition also conversion

hint it is part of the gradual conversion however they may suddenly what?

Answer 6

where the individual at some point realises their change of perspective

Question 7

what is a sudden conversion?

Answer 7

the conversion takes place abruptly

Question 8

give an example of a gradual and individual conversion

hint he was an author

Answer 8

C. S. Lewis

he claimed it was logically and rationally. books and close friends were influences

Question 9

give an example of a sudden and individual conversion

Answer 9

saul

Question 10

explain the story of saul briefly

Answer 10

Saul was travelling to Damascus. a light flashed before him, he heard a voice ask him “why do you persecute me?” he was blinded for three days.

in Damascus there was a disciple called Ananias, god told him to meet Saul in the house of judas”

Ananias met Saul and told him he saw Jesus and that the Lord had come to cure him of his blindness, Saul was later baptised and renamed Paul