Revelation Flashcards
Keyword: General Revelation
When believers feel God is revealed through the Natural World or experiences anyone can have e.g reading holy books.
Keyword: Special Revelation
The belief that God is revealed in a special way such as a miracle or a vision - usually to only one or a few people.
Keyword: Numinous
The feeling people get when they look at the natural world and think there must be something greater than them.
Keyword: Conscience
THeists believe this is the voice of God.
Keyword: Conversion
People converting from being an atheist to a theist.
Keyword: Transcendent
The belief that God is supreme and above the world - God is not controlled by time and space.
Keyword: Immanent
God is involved in the world - e.g miracles and Jesus (for Christians).
Keyword: Personal
That humans can know and can have a relationship with God (talk to God).
Keyword: Impersonal
Humans cannot know or understand God.
Keyword: Omnipotent
The belief that God is all powerful.
Keyword: Omniscient
The belief that God knows and sees everything.
Keyword: Benevolence
The belief that God loves everything.
Keyword: Illusion
The idea that revelation is just made up and imagined by the believer.
What do Muslim’s believe the Qu’ran is?
The word of Allah.
What did Thomas Aquinas believe we should always do?
Follow our conscience.