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.
What was the early life of Nicky Cruz?
He was born into a Satanist family in Puerto Rico. He was abused by his family and, after moving to New York, he became the leader of one of the most feared gangs, the Mau Maus.
What happened to Nicky Cruz to cause him to convert?
He went to kill a preacher called David Wilkerson and when he treatened to kill him, Wilkerson said: “You can cut me up into a thousand pieces and every one of them would still love you.”
What were the effects of Nicky Cruz’s revelation?
He set up a charity called Nicky Cruz Outreach in order to help troubled teenagers.
What did Jesus say to Saul?
“Saul, Saul why do you persecute me?”`
What do some Christians believe that can happen when they are in congregation?
They can speak in different languages through the spirit of God.
Who was St Bernedette?
A uneducated girl from France who had 18 visions of the Virgin Mary who told her to dig a hole at Lourdes and water began sprouting out.
What did Mary tell St Bernedette?
“I am the immaculate conception.”
What is the story of Sally McCloy?
She travelled to Lourdes and was cured of cancer.
What did Sally McCloy do as a result of being cured of cancer?
Spend the rest of her life helps no sick people who travel to Lourdes for a cure.
What do theists use to keep a relationship with God?
Prayer.
What do people claim prayers sometimes do?
They are answered and God gives them what they asked for.
What is the story of Muhammad and Jibrail?
Jibrail went to Muhammad while he was meditating and gave him the words of the Qu’ran. Muhammad couldn’t read but after being squeezed by Jibrail 3 times he able to read and he spread the word of the Qu’ran.
What does revelation teach theists that God is? (7)
Impersonal (Sends messengers, Mary and Jibrail), Personal, Transcendsnt, Immanent, Omnipotent, Omniscient, Benevolent.
What is the evidence for revelation? (5)
Revelations can come true.
Revelation backs up what people believe.
The revelation changes someone’s life.
Revelation affects millions of people around the world.
If someone doesn’t usually lie, why doubt them?
What is the evidence against revelation? (6)
Special revelations are subjective and cannot be proven.
Revelations contradict each other, e.g. Different holy books.
The revelation could have been brought about by drugs, alcohol etc.
Believers are desperate so therefore they are wishful thinking. (Nicky Cruz)
People are suffering from mental illness causing them to have voices in their head.
Different religions have different revelations.
