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Revelation Flashcards

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What is special revelation?

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The belief that God is revealed in a special way such as a miracle or a vision- usually to one or a few people

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What is a general revelation?

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When believers feel God is revealed through the Natural World or experiences anyone can have e.g reading a book

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What does numinous mean?

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They feeling people get when they look at the natural world and think there must be something greater than that

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What is a conscience?

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Theists believe this is the voice if God

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What is a conversion?

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People converting from being an atheist to a theist

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What is a transcendent?

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The belief that God is supreme and above the world- God is not controlled by time and space

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What does immanent mean?

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God is involved in the world

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What does personal mean?

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God can know and have a relationship with humans

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Impersonal?

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Humans cannot know or understand God

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What is the word for all powerful?

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Omnipotent

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What is the word for all loving?

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Omnibenvolent

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What is the word for all knowing/seeing?

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Omniscient

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What does illusion mean?

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The idea that revelation is just made up and imagined by the believer

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Give an example of someone who had a general revelation

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Nicky Cruz

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Explain Nicky Cruz and his story

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He was a feared gang leader in New York, he went to a church and heard the preacher preaching and told Cruz God loved him, Cruz cam back in order to kill him, the preacher told Cruz “ you could chop me up into a thousand pieces and lay them on the street and everyone would still love you” he then converted and became a preacher himself

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What did Saul spend most of his time doing?

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persecuting and killing Christians

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Explain Saul’s revelation

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He had a vision of Jesus whilst he heard a voice from heaven calling “Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me?” He then lost his sight and began to believe in Jesus, he got his sight back, converted from Saul to Paul and eventually died for what he believed in.

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What is Lourdes and what is said to happen there?

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A place of pilgrimage for those that are sick as the water

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Who was Bernadette?

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A young, uneducated girl who lived in Lourdes

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What did the Virgin Mary say to Bernadette? And what does it mean?

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“i am the immaculate conception” She gave birth to Jesus without having has sex

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Why is what the Virgin Mary said to Bernadette so important in proving revelations happen?

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Bernadette was uneducated, so she did not understand what the Virgin Mary had said to her, she could not have made this up.

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Explain Sally McCloys story

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She traveled to Lourdes when she was very sick with cancer believing she would die there. Whilst there she felt the pain lever her and after examination , the doctors concluded she no longer had cancer. She believed the Virgin Mary performed a miracle.

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How does prayer show revelation?

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Many people have prayed for cures for illnesses ect and then great things happening due to the power of prayer. God is said to reveal himself by answering.

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What do these revelations teach us about what God is like?

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Transcendent
Omniscient
Impersonal
Benevolence
Personal
Omnipotent
Immanent
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What is the evidence to support revelations?

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1) the revelation comes true-Lourdes
2) it backs up what people believe- prayer works
3) it changes someones life- Nicky Cruz
4) affects millions over the world- people are willing to die
5) someone who doesnt lie has a revelation, why not believe them?

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What are arguments against revelation?

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1) cannot be trusted as there is no evidence
2) religions have different holy books- which is right?
3) could have been brought about by drugs, alcohol ect
4) believers are desperate and wishful thinkers
5) mental illnesses that can make them hear voices
6) different religions have different revelations -who’s right?- none

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